After a good breakfast - that's the norm at hotels now - of eggs, sausage, cereal, fruit yogurt and good coffee, we do the last run. We pass a herd, maybe 30, of beautiful pronghorn antelope, and a couple of coyotes digging at the edge of the road. A few hawks or falcons are returning, that's a good sign. But no grass!
We have a pleasant 60 second border crossing - welcome home to Alberta! - but gradually the sun gives way to clouds then rain and snow at the edge of the road. Not looking good. Snow is forecast all weekend in Calgary. But we have a tail wind so it helps Ted's diesel consumption.
We stop before the border to get gas and offload liquid, and I meet one of my ski buds in the ladies washroom, also returning after 2 months in Phoenix! It really is a small world.
We pull into our driveway at 3:15pm. There's 3 feet of snow in our side yard but our drive is almost clear.
The odometer says 45899km, we began last October at 30550km, so our faithful RV has done over 15,000km with only one oil change and blowing a resistor? I think we now know that we're not going to spend the whole winter in Calgary again.
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