1 Week Anniversary

I have now been in Cold Lake for a whole week. It would be great if I could say the time has just flown by, but it is more like the drive into the range we take every morning; long, repetitive and tedious.

It is about a 45km drive in every morning. It should only take a half hour, but as you can see the roads are sometimes a little hard to navigate. Luckily for us there is very little traffic at 7am in the other direction. Just kilometers after kilometers of the same view.

Of course there are some strange and unusual sites. Like this road sign for instance. I've never seen one like it and there are plenty of places like that where I grew up in Mississippi and in Navarre now. And the pavement does end, exactly 20km from the turn off from the main road. That road goes almost straight north from the highway, skirting between Marie and Cold Lakes and into the range. 20km paved, 20 km gravel and then you end up at the guard gate I showed you yesterday. There are some other strange road signs but I haven't caught them with the camera, yet.

There have also been wildlife along the road. Two days ago a Moose and her calf were just standing right at the tree line. However, we were past them before I could get the camera. Yesterday a wolf crossed the road in front of us as fast as a deer. I guess he was a little camera shy. One of the people in the car said it was a coyote, but I don't think they roam this far north.