{"id":1976,"date":"2017-05-26T19:56:51","date_gmt":"2017-05-27T00:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/?p=1976"},"modified":"2017-05-26T19:56:51","modified_gmt":"2017-05-27T00:56:51","slug":"hockey-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/?p=1976","title":{"rendered":"Hockey Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1979\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/wp-content\/IMG_20170525_155224.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1979\" src=\"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/wp-content\/IMG_20170525_155224-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Walmart campground\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1979\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/wp-content\/IMG_20170525_155224-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/wp-content\/IMG_20170525_155224-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/wp-content\/IMG_20170525_155224.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1979\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Walmart campground<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I drove to Edmonton today. The traffic was pretty bad all the way. I thought I would see a lot of camper trailers going north but there were very few. From Lethbridge to Calgary and a little beyond I could see the snow covered Rocky Mountains off to my left. After I got through Calgary,  the terrain was mostly flat farmland in all directions &#8211; I could have been driving through Nebraska!  <\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1978\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/wp-content\/IMG_20170526_105419.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1978\" src=\"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/wp-content\/IMG_20170526_105419-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"OMG!!!\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1978\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/wp-content\/IMG_20170526_105419-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/wp-content\/IMG_20170526_105419-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/wp-content\/IMG_20170526_105419.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1978\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">OMG!!!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I filled up with petrol in Calgary for $1.07 \/ liter. First time I&#8217;ve ever run a gas pump past $100!  I was a little discouraged that the bank where I exchanged my currency gave me so many $100 bills, but I see now that they will be easy to spend. <\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1977\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/wp-content\/IMG_20170526_184943.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1977\" src=\"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/wp-content\/IMG_20170526_184943-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"2 Dollars\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1977\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/wp-content\/IMG_20170526_184943-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/wp-content\/IMG_20170526_184943-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/wp-content\/IMG_20170526_184943.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1977\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2 Dollars<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Now I see what they did with all those Canadian pennies they don&#8217;t use anymore. The melted them down and put them inside their Toonies! I&#8217;m slowly getting used to the currency and the metric speed and distance. I&#8217;m just thankful that no one changed time to a decimal division; can you imagine if there were 100 minutes in an hour?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m outside a Cabelas tonight. I&#8217;m hoping once I get north of here the traffic will thin out some. I should be close to Grande Prairie tomorrow unless I slow down and take a rest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I drove to Edmonton today. The traffic was pretty bad all the way. I thought I would see a lot of camper trailers going north but there were very few. From Lethbridge to Calgary and a little beyond I could see the snow covered Rocky Mountains off to my left. After I got through Calgary, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alaska-trip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1980,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976\/revisions\/1980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}