is allegedly Medicine Hat. Except of course on the day I'm there - it takes a long time to refuel badger (100 gallon tank), and when you are doing it at the cheap petrol station with no roof and its raining sideways at you it gets a bit grim.
Horrendous drive this morning - 50kph headwinds gusting to 70 meant that we couldn't get into top gear and just watched the fuel gauge drop mile by mile, and even at 12 tonnes the wind was bouncing us all over the road - 12 feet high with the aerodynamics of a brick on its side. The prairies are a bit more undulating than we expected, and for reasons best know to the surveyors the road does actually twist and turn quite a bit, so that the wind was sometimes coming at us completely sideways and causing such a drop in pressure that the spring loaded awning over the door was half extending as we were going along. Interesting.
Horrendous drive this morning - 50kph headwinds gusting to 70 meant that we couldn't get into top gear and just watched the fuel gauge drop mile by mile, and even at 12 tonnes the wind was bouncing us all over the road - 12 feet high with the aerodynamics of a brick on its side. The prairies are a bit more undulating than we expected, and for reasons best know to the surveyors the road does actually twist and turn quite a bit, so that the wind was sometimes coming at us completely sideways and causing such a drop in pressure that the spring loaded awning over the door was half extending as we were going along. Interesting.
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