"A horse near Lac la Nonne, shortly before we stopped for ice cream. The wind helped us to a 190 km day into Edmonton."

"One cannot expect virgin pavement for one's entire trip, but we did continue to be blessed with a roaring tailwind."

"It's so smooth!"

"We ate at the hotel restaurant in Swan Hills at 9:00 and had fresh, fresh pavement after that for our ride to the camp site, 30km south of town."

"Right, so it turns out that the road crests at 1268 m, significantly higher than the highest point on the Yellowhead. Definitely more climbing than I was able to recall in the previous years. (Did they make this thing higher? I swear it wasn't that big a deal last time...)"