Traffic Perils

As you all know, we live "out of town." By and large it's been a great choice for our family and Wally and I are not yet too old to enjoy our daily commute to work. I remind people that we still spend less time on the wide, open hiway than many of our cousins in the city who drive or use public transit.

I was driving home from Del Bonita the other day, tuned into CBC radio "rush hour" traffic report - collision here, road closure there, heavy traffic everywhere…..

I was exhilarated by my feeling of freedom as I enjoyed the scenery along the hiway. Alberta is truly the land of wide open spaces and the sky was blue and the road was clear for miles ahead. It was just me and my V6 zipping along-carefree and energized by the beauty all around me.   

Just as I was sensing that I might have reached maximum warp speed I noticed a car about two miles ahead of me on the hiway…and it was slowing down?!?

Then I saw the problem. It wasn't wild life or farm equipment interupting my drive home. It was a CATTLE DRIVE!! No less than five hundred head of cattle marching down the hiway shoulder to shoulder DEAD AHEAD.

The pictures really do not do the operation justice but as I quickly pulled out my phone to record the event as I crawled along allowing the cattle to move by, I couldn't help but think that I was enjoying the

traffic delay more than anything so far this day. 

Life is GOOD and I was probably still home way before that guy that was stuck behind the three car pile up on Deerfoot Trail.