Before the beginning

Well, all the crap is in the bags, 1 more sleep before we leave at 1:00 tomorrow. Hopefully the notoriously unreliable Calgary cab arrives in AM. Looking forward to exiting the -20 deep freeze that has set in the last 24 hours. Am hoping we will have time to update this page a few times along the way... if this is the only post and its February, I guess it didn't happen. Anyway, this is the first load of asphalt on the road....