Country music fans will say ” Allan you stole that lyric from Bocephus!” Guilty as charged. But unless Hank Williams Jr calls me on it, the title stays.
Southern Alberta is a fantastic place to tour around…. but even better on a motorcycle! The wonderfulness of the view, the smells, the air and the feeling of the road are all magnified when you are on your motorcycle. This morning I wanted to visit clients in Magrath, Pincher Creek and Coleman.
I busted out the Yamaha FJR (see picture) and first went to Magrath. When I left Magrath I didn’t go north back to highway…. that would be no fun, I went south to Spring Coulee and headed west on 505. That is a beautiful road past the St Mary reservoir and the Waterton reservoir and intersected with highway 6. South takes you to Waterton and North takes you to Pincher Creek. Of course I didn’t go directly to Pincher…. I headed south to Twin Butte. Twin Butte has an awesome Mexican Restaurant – celebrating their 20th anniversary. So a great enchilada for lunch and a wild berry crumble ( a huge serving) and then I headed on to Pincher.
I helped out the four clients I planned to see in Pincher and then left Pincher of 507 west to Beaver Mines. Had a brief stop to visit with my friend Jeff McLarty who runs the Beaver Mines store, and then north on 507 to highway 3. West on highway 3 to visit two clients in Coleman and then I started back east on highway 3 to Lethbridge.
Did I stay on highway 3 the entire trip back? Of course not! At the east end of Cowley there is a road that heads north, #510, that crosses the river and circles around the Oldman River Dam. My friend Sean told me that is a nice piece of road – and it certainly was. Fields of gold, green and blue and green fields dotted with hundreds of hay bales with that incredible blue Alberta sky going on forever – love it! That road returns to highway 3 just east of Pincher.
The rest of the ride home was on highway #3… but I did spot a sign on the 510 for the Three Rivers fossil museum – a stop for next time 🙂
There are lots of great roads to explore in Southern Alberta. Share some of your best roads with me.