To Calgary & back in a day

Below are some pictures of my recent trip out to Calgary. I arrived at 9am local time and was on the plane again to come back to Winnipeg by noon local time. Why was I out there? I was flown out for an interview with Growers Supply Ltd of Taber. They mainly deal with potato growers and the job I was interviewing for was to do the agronomy - scouting fields for insects & disease, taking tissue samples for nutrient analysis, taking soil tests, and recommending pesticides for use on their farms.

If you haven't heard already - I got the job! So ... Lisa & I are currently working at telling people around here and starting to think about how real moving to Alberta is. Over the next few weeks we'll try to document the process and in a month or so you'll see lots of postings documenting our new home. Stay tuned.

Looking at Winnipeg from the northwest corner.


Portage la Praire - note how winding the Assiniboine river is.


I believe this is the escarpment that runs through Manitoba (yes, there is an escarpment). It roughly cuts through the southwest corner of the province from Dauphin to a little west of Carman. I was told by a train engineer once that the escarpment and the Qu'Appelle Valley in Saskatchewan are the hardest climbs the trains have to do in the whole of western Canada. Yes - that even includes the mountains. For the most part the railroad skirts around or through the mountains (I've taken the train through them, there are very few tunnels).


Sunrise over the clouds, somewhere in Saskatchewan. Since we were flying west, the sun rise lasted almost the entire length of the flight.


And here it is - Calgary! You can see the sunrise reflection off the mountains in the background. The interview was entirely in the airport, I never even made it outside. I'll be back (and hopefully Lisa with me) in a few weeks to look for a place to live (in Taber) so I'll get to breathe some of that Alberta air then.