Day Fifty-seven

15.09 km

Halloween of course. Windy.

Day Fifty-six

10.02 km
Windy - very windy.  Escorted an artist/visitor to town around the streets of Lethbridge trying to stay upright. Viewing anonymous artworks in dark spaces.

Day Fifty-five

12.25 km
Meandering walk past the Southern Alberta Art Gallery Renovation site, across the highway and railway tracks that separate South from North Lethbridge, through the north-side neighbourhoods and circled back home. Chinook yesterday but cold wind blowing this evening.

Day Fifty-four

11.15 km
Went for a walk in the evening and got trapped in a pedestrian hell of dead-end streets, circles, closes, places, crescents, coves, boulevards and other suburban nightmares.

Day Fifty-three

10.3 km
Worked inside all day. Came home and read the newspaper. Wind, snow, rain, flu.

Day Fifty-two

6.5 km

Stayed close to home. Dug potatoes. A little late in the year to harvest unfortunately.

Day Fifty-one

6.05 km
Slow day. Walked on the west side. Made Bread. Enjoyed company.

Day Fifty

10.80 km today. 116 km this fortnight. 597.70 km total.
 Halfway, time to finish my virtual wandering around Edmonton and head back to Lethbridge. Weather turning colder, snow in the air mixed with cold rain. A time for retreating indoors, but there is still a long walk ahead.

Day Forty-nine

15.45 km
Morning paper didn't seem to have been delivered so started to walk down to the shop to buy one. Fortunately before I got there I received a phone call to alert me that the paper had been found in the centre of a bush in the middle of the front yard. Who would have guessed. Diverted my walk to the shoe store and bought shoes instead. Later I went down to site of last summers Great Horned Owl's nest and scrounged for evidence.

Day forty-eight

12.25 km
Steady day, continuous but relatively slow moving. Pleasant weather, sunny and warm - nice fall day. Kicked at some of the leaves on the sidewalk. Time spent at the airport improved the day.

Day Forty-seven

10.20 km
Birds this morning. Juncos and Nuthatches battling swarms of English Sparrows for a share of the sunflowers. Pleasant day, fog in the morning but warmer and sunny later on. Fire alarm ment a bit of time outside in the middle of the day.
Little energy after work, put my feet up. Walked to the kitchen a few times.

Day Forty-six

10.45 km

Back in Lethbridge, Oct 20 - a special day. Spent it in my usual Tuesday manner of wandering through hallways and stairwells. Walked downtown a little later in the day before a lecture at the SAAG.

Day Forty-five

8.45 km

Peterborough, Toronto, Calgary, Lethbridge. Walked a kilometre in the Maple Leaf Lounge at the Calgary airport. No birds.

Day Forty-four

10.58 km
Enjoying my virtual visit to Edmonton while walking in Peterborough.  Visited the Trent University nature area today. Beautiful day. Nuthatches, Goldfinches, Chickadees, Cardinals, Hairy Woodpeckers, Downy Woodpeckers, Juncos, Blue Jays, Robins, Doves, Waterfowl, Coyotes.

Day Forty-three

16.02 km - have arrived in Edmonton. 519km. Had a beer to celebrate my virtual arrival at the Art Gallery of Alberta, in addition to drinking coffee and going to plays in Peterborough. The Rez Sisters - excellent. Recreational walking combined with walking for necessities.

Day Forty-two

10.25 km
Toronto. The city with monuments to kings on horses. Hotel to conference site to restaurant to hotel. Good restaurant, no idea what it's name was.

Day Forty-one

11.55 km

Toronto. Walked in Lethbridge in the morning and Toronto in the evening. In between I got a very good aerial view of Whoop-Up Drive in Lethbridge. A road that links South and West Lethbrige and which is a classic example of bad planning. A 1950's era car-based strategy that is the model for the city's transportation plan for the 21st century.  A nightmare of bad planning.

Day Forty

10.17 km, 109.74 km the last ten days, 481.70 km total. Just past Leduc, close to the airport, almost at Edmonton city limits. I'll be there in a couple of days.
First snow shovel of the year. More like a Spring snow though, warmish with wet snow.

Busy day, mostly inside although I did a lot of parking lot walking.

Day Thirty-nine

15.65 km
Lethbridge. Walked the twelves this evening. 12th St., 12A St., 12B St., 12C St., and then 13th St. The rest of the day was spent inside walking University Hall.

Day Thirty-eight

11. 25 km
Strolled in Claresholm for a bit while taking a break from the drive back to Lethbridge. Weather a bit warmer today although still brisk, sunny for a bit then cloudy with some scattered snow. Quiet, slow. Did a good fast walk back in Lethbridge before turning in.

Day Thirty-seven

Calgary.
10.01 km.
Finished filling the dumpster today. Has a ton and a half capacity. Up and down the basement stairs. Cold today, with snow. visited the recycling depot a few times.

Day Thirty-six

11.37 km
Calgary. Dropped a huge load of copper-rich wiring harnesses from old x-ray machines at the electronics recycling depot. Found in parent's basement. Go figure. Had lunch at Wild Rose Brewery, A very nice plate of sausages with red and green sauerkraut. Very good with a small glass of SOB. (Special Old Bitter).

Cold, snowing off and on all day. 

Day Thirty-five

12.05 km

Very icy today. Tried to make up the mileage that I missed yesterday but seemed to have a day of socializing and meetings. Shopped for winter clothes. Read obituaries.

Day Thirty-four

7.12 km

Snow all day, although between snow storms it was a relatively pleasant day. Big blizzard hit at the exact moment I was about to go for a stroll. Impacted on the days mileage.

Day Thirty-three

11.22 km

Cold and snow today. Spent it indoors, except for a couple of outdoor experiences in blizzard-like conditions.