Hello, hello, hello.
It has been a few weeks to a month now, since my last post about our excursion to find Windfall and although we didn’t have any success finding anything left after 50yrs (no big surprise there), we did have a very enjoyable day. We came across some other neat finds instead.
The Rochfort Trestle Bridge: Is one of the longest wood trestle bridges in North America at 2,414 ft (736 m) long and 110 ft (33.5 m) tall; built in 1914 over Paddle River; two short portions were replaced by steel; still in use periodically by CN. We also found an old farm house along Hwy 43 not far from Sangudo, AB.
Since our trip to Windfall I have started a new position as Graphic Designer with Lock Surgeon, a family of companies dealing with residential and commercial security. I will be working on web design, content creation, catalogues, advertisements etc… It is a new direction for me in that I have not had much work along those lines for the past 5yrs at my previous job.
The summer is flying by and I am looking at all the places I still want to visit with a modicum of distress. So many places so little time. It was our 23rd wedding anniversary last weekend and we took a trip to Red Deer.
This is from the trail around Gaetz Sanctuary, a very nice little conservation area in the middle of town. On our way home the next day we took the back roads and found a small ghost town called Meeting Creek (population 39). There was a very nice heritage site there with Grain Elevators and train station.
These little finds keep us in anticipation for each and every trip we take, we never know what we will discover.
Stay tuned!