Leaving the ranch, we headed North of Calgary to Penhold, the little town where Andy's children live.
Of course I was very nervous meeting Coreen, Chris, their spouces and his grandchildren. We were greeted with warm hospitality.
Andy's children have young families. Their children range in age with the oldest an 8 year old boy, two 2 year old boys, an 11 month old girl and one due in four weeks, gender unknown.
We left the next afternoon for Big Valley. This community is about 380 people, no traffic lights but plenty of stop signs. Andy says those signs are routinely ignored and viewed as suggestions only.
We put Barbie to her last hard struggle - the hill climbing up to Big Valley has a 9 percent grade. At one point I did offer to get out and give Barbie help by pushing, we were going so slowly, but the old girl got us to the top. From the top of that hill it was 5 miles more (8k) to Big Valley.
Twlight greeted us as we slowly entered the quiet streets to Andy's 1903 house. The house was easy to pick out due to the hip high grass gracing the yard.
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