Travels to Canada

Travels this week took me to Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. This is about 150 miles south of Calgary. The country is very nice rolling plains with a lot of production agriculture. With the exception of the river valleys the country is pretty flat. The Old Man River runs past Lethbridge and is a deep wide valley. In 1909 the Canadian Pacific Railroad built this train teasel over the river. It is the highest of its kind (413 feet above the river) and longest of its kind (5334 feet- a little over a mile long). It is still in use today. Truly a engineering marvel. (click on the pictures for a larger view)

Catherin Kerr from our headquarters in Westbrook Main was traveling with me. Here she is show standing next to one of the legs of a bridge towers. This will give you an idea of how big this really is.

This picture shows about half of the bridge.

Looking west. You can see some houses on the other side.

Spock is really from Canada! Yep, that's right. Vulcan is not a planet its a town in Canada. We had to stop and do the tourist thing. This is a picture of me standing beside the Starship Enterprise. "Live long and prosper!"

Back in Calgary to catch a flight to Texas I woke up Thursday morning to 6 inches of snow. It was pretty but I was glad to leave it behind in Canada.