So we awoke to the delicate sounds of a motel cleaning crew vacuuming the corridors!!
We partook of the continental breakfast and then gently wandered over to Cummins Diesel to check on the coach.
As expected, nothing had been done, so we politely discussed our situation with the Service Foreman, who was, again politely, worse than useless.
He told us that they could probably look at the engine “this afternoon” and that we would be telephoned and kept updated.
So, with all day in front of us, we went across the city to Guarantee RV dealers, and bought some latches to replace those broken during the rough road trip out of Alaska.
The staff at this dealership are extremely helpful and friendly. They obviously went to a different charm school than the Cummins employees!!
We had a pleasant lunch at the little local airport café, and then ,with no phone call from Cummins, we decided to do what all 50 year old lovers do, we went to the movies!
What was neat were the automatic ticket machines, no waiting in line to talk to a speaker in a piece of glass, in front of some bored looking, pimply faced adolescent with an attitude.
We saw The Bourne Ultimatum, excellent finale to the trilogy, full of action and suspense, very good.
We then drove back to Cummins, because, as anticipated, we had received no phone call, and when we got here, the Service Foreman had already left for the day.
The night foreman is a study in negativity, and we think he wrote that best selling book, “ How To Cover Your Ass 101”.
So the upshot was that we drove the coach onto the front parking lot of Cummins Diesel, and spent the night there.
So, not exactly the most exciting report of the journey, but we have to take the bad with the good.
Calgary is a quite large, very clean, flat and suburban city. Bland just about sums it up.
It has hosted the Winter Olympics (we think) and has a very impressive place called Olympic Park, with toboggan runs and ski lifts and a massive ski jump complex. Of course, there is not much snow about at the moment, in fact with temperatures in the high 70’s, there is no snow at all, so despite our pleading and begging, we were not allowed to do the ski jump or anything.
The province of Alberta is very green conscious, which is extremely refreshing. No pun intended.
Wildlife watch was non existent today.
New beer watch was Rebel Ale, Grasshopper, and Kokanee. All of these are local Alberta brews, and were excellent.
