409 Miles

Has nothing to do with D&D, but sometimes I use this blog as a diary.  Here's our driving route from yesterday, mostly on secondary highways, a journey of 409 miles for literally no reason except to drive.  We did not do it to go any specific place or to meet any friends, nor to attend any festivals or walk into any special stores or venues.  We went just to see.

We took our own food, stood below a glacier and six hours later on the shore of a warm freshwater beach.  Including rests, the whole journey took 11.5 hours.

There is something about me that is fascinated with travel ... nothing more than the fact that the world is moving past my window.  It's connected to the map-making, certainly, and somehow to D&D, which is also about going places just to find things and sometimes kill them.  Tamara and I have enjoyed this month of getting around in the car; yesterday really pushed our physical limits, however.  Still, we're hoping on taking a week-long journey in May, and possibly one across Canada in August next year.  So yesterday was also sort of a "training" effort.

For those who might be interested, it cost about $85 in gas.  For those who might wonder, gas prices in Alberta yesterday ran at $7.24 a gallon, or $1.55 a litre.

For Pandred, Crowfoot Glacier: