last week, in order to get all of my crap sorted out in calgary, i rented a car (and my buddy jim will tell you, i paid about 100% too much for it). i rented it for a week, because that would take me from sunday to sunday and i would have all kinds of opportunities to drive around and run errands and such. and best of all, since i had rented the car from a place with unlimited mileage, as long as i could afford the $1.299/l at the gas pump, i could drive home for the weekend and visit my parents and possibly even some friends.
i've driven the highway 2 north and south more times than i can count travelling between edmonton and calgary over the years. it's a pretty dull drive, but it does afford one a chance to take in one of alberta's greatest and perhaps most underestimated assets - its incredible sky. on a clear day - hell, even on a cloudy terrible day - the drive across the prairie gives you one of the most awe-inspiring views of heaven that i've ever found anywhere on this planet.
even though this timelapse is meant to represent the trip from calgary to edmonton, my camera battery died when i got to leduc (about 20 clicks south of e-town), so this isn't really the entire trip. however, if this were real-time, and not timelapse, then we would be travelling at about 3,360km/h. even without the timelapse, i was averaging about 140km/h and would probably have made edmonton in under 2.25 hours, except for missing my exit back to the highway at red deer.
next time.
- g
song of the day for marvelling at the sky: big sky, john o'callaghan with audrey gallagher (agnelli & nelson remix)
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