My hosts since 1984 ( I do leave and come back) I am sure, at times, are sure I will be bored and maybe decide not to return.

Well let me tell you briefly about how the wonderful city of Calgary has entertained me over the past few days.

Immediately upon my return I travelled in the Mustang with the roof down to the A&W store in the NW for Motorcycle night, well actually this is the third visit this year.

Despite meeting up with some of the regulars and recounting in brief detail the 16842.2kms I had travelled since the last visit in July I saw a number of different motorcycles to those I regulary see at the night. There was a rare blue Suzuki RE5 Rotary (1976) engined bike complete with a descriptive w***l licence plate w***le being the engines designer). Ther were two Suzuki waterdooled 750/3 from 1976, one original in gold the other modernised and slightly customised.

The next night it was a different A&W for the Friday Cruisin Car night. again the Mustang was both transport and entrant. it was not long before I evicted Don, the store Franchisee so I resumed my now almost normal position of selling tickets in 50/50 to aid research into MS. Incidently this one store over Thursday & Friday had at last count raised over $12000.

My good friends John & Margaret showed up and happily Margaret won a prize in the random draw that we actually all enjoyed the following night.

My persistence paid off and in the final draw of the night my number 95043 came out and I am now the owner of a family electric toothbrush service.

John & Margaret invited us for supper (tea) the next night and we all enjoyed John's excellent cooking of Red Salmon, we all agreed Salmon had never tasted so good. Leellen provided an equally delicious desert in the form of Flapper pie. (check it out on the internet of you are not familiar with what they are). After supper we drove into the industrial area and watched the final night's fireworks for Globalfest. My history with Globalfest going back to 2004 when I was the Australian entrant, assisted ably by Helen & our Canadian crew.

The Next day Saturday was firstly Skunk removal then a short trip to accept my Loyal Customer invitation to Rocky Mountain Honda's customer appreciation Day. Lovely free hamburgers 7 pop (soda , soft drink) were ably managed by Corey and the store enticed me to part with some Canadian Dollars for a Lithium Ion battery at 40% discount that will be my back up in Europe 2018.

Sunday was not a lost day either as we had tickets to the final performance at Jubliations of a live production of Flashdance in a dinner setting. After potato leek soup & a side salad we settled down to act one then it was chicken white gravy mashed potato and carrots before Act 2. A lemon desert consumed along with tea or coffee then Act 3 the finale rounded out a great night. As I was not part of the group that attends regularly I was seated at a different table but soon was well immersed in conversation with two delightful ladies from Calgary.

Monday arrivies and so a new challenge what to do? Well lets go play with a caterpillar D8 crawler and semi trailers, buses,trucks, big utes,lighting towers sadly no motorcycles but what an opportunity lets take Jody & Wyatt and combine it with a visit to Bass Pro.

Gee still a few hours before supper so Tom Tom took us to Blackfoot Motosports, an annual "must do" and soon Justin Swanson had given us a free coffee and chat, ofcourse I returned the hospitality by purchasing a Mini Motorcycle tyre compressor and they offered me the opportunity to have a free NOS 23"tyre tube that had failed too sell for some long period of time,so long no barcode or even box end existed. I gladly accepted as my Honda XL250S has a 23"front wheel.

So life in Calgary is far from boring as no end of interesting eposides arise.