Day 16 Granum to Taber

A home coming of sorts as Taber is where the DeWolde family settled upon immigrating from the Netherlands in the early 50's. So Taber is where I come from before we moved to Chilliwack. I have been back dozens of times over the years visiting Oma, cousins, etc, so I tried to soak it all in as a bunch of us rode into town.

Breakfast was provided by the Granum CRC people. Pancakes, bacon, scrambled eggs. Very good.
Out the campground at 7:30. Riding with a few guys in the beginnning and was doing 35ish with a little wind help.  At the sag stop we agreed that was too fast. You get somewhere fast, but the pace tires you out quicker.  Rode with Harry and Audrey after that for a bit.

Nobleford church provided us with fresh cinnamon buns so we had a little pit stop there. In Picture Butte Kosters Bakery was providing free baked treats.  Right after Picture Butte Harry got a flat, his second of the day. It was windy and a little wet.  Tried fixing it, but to no avail and a fellow from Iron Springs CRC stopped and we figured it best Harry go with him to the church so he could fix it there while we carried on.  A turn north brought us into a head wind and rain and to Iron Springs CRC where we were provided a good lunch around 11 am.  I was talking to a lady there who knew our family from our Taber days.  At this point we were half way to Taber. The sun was coming out and I could ditch my jacket.

Side winds earlier on really had us noticing when semi trucks came by. The amount of wind they'd push our way made us hang on tight each time. Very gusty.  We saw fields and fields of bluish flax, brown winter wheat, yellow canola, and green peas and barley.

Before Coaldale we crossed a big coulee. Harry says it's a river valley, not a coulee as he reads over my shoulder. A big drop down followed by a big climb up the other side. The stretch from Coaldale to Taber had us heading east and the crosswind and headwind was a little wearing and unpopular. We came by the McCain potatoe plant and could smell the cooking oil. We rode to Taber Christian School with a small group at 2:50.

Taber church is hosting us for dinner tonight with.a pig roast, should be good. My niece's husband Tim has been busy with that all day I'm told.

Totals for today: 135 klm, 5:00 pedalling, and a 27.5 kph avg.