June 16 2011 St. Paul Alberta

the bad part of #36 after #45 this isn't the worst but I was hanging on during the bad part so no pic

just a neat old barn on Hwy 36

Thursday June 16 2011
Left John’s at 9 am heading to St. Paul Alberta (north east of Edmonton) to visit Randy and Judy.  Drove in and out of rain all the way. Took hwy 36 all the way to St. Paul.  Stopped and got diesel near Hanna  at 12:00, $1.08.9/l, this is a good place to stop, it is a Flying Jay, big parking lot, Shell, café.  Took a picture of an old barn near Killem.  Stopped in Viking for gas too.  Same price.  There are a couple of jogs in hwy 36 and the last one #45, when we turned back on the continuing #36 it was terrible.  It is under construction and there aren’t any signs to tell you that it is not really passable.  We got going and I said to Hank, “what the H are we getting into” I took a picture at the start which wasn’t even the worst part.  I just held on, Hank put the truck in 4 wheel drive and got us thru it.  The truck and trailer were a mess, covered in mud!!!!!!!Great to see Judy, Randy is still at work and will be till tomorrow afternoon sometime.  They have a new puppy, 4 months old, what a blast, he is crazy, they call him Mickey but Randy says he should be named Cujo.  Had a lot of fun with him.  We had a nice dinner with Judy and an early night (as usual for us).