Exhaustion is the watchword of the day. And I still have a week to go. Scandalous!

So I have made it to Canada’s most awkwardly rhyming city, Regina. But we shall start at the beginning. I woke up today in Banff and it was one of the most beautiful sights that I’ve ever experienced. Wandered around the town at dawn and took pictures of the mountains as the sun rose. You know very well that it will be months before those pictures see the light of day, if not years, but you can put them on the list of things to eventually see.

Banff is a quaint town of artificially historical buildings and painful architecture but the natural scenery makes up for the terrible human influence.

Then I got in the car, after a fight with the bike rack over socks and shoes in the frozen morning, and drove through Calgary. It seems to me that Calgary isn’t a city at all. It’s a village. Would have missed it if not for all the signs and cowboy memorabilia littering the countryside as I approached. How sane people continue to live in such a place, I cannot understand.

At least Regina feels like a town. I’ve managed to get lost twice and I have only been here for a few hours. Oops.

Back feels like someone walked on it. In cleats. Carrying a large ox.

Bedtime.

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