Brrrrr!!!!!

Wow, what a difference a few days can make.  Last week I was in Sacramento with my good friends Steve, Maureen, Tom, Barbara, Ed, and Joyce for the International Sportsmen’s Exposition.   When I got back to So Cal, we had an 80-degree day.   80 degrees, in January!   You just gotta love southern California.  

Yesterday, I departed on a secret mission (don’t tell anyone) all the way up to Fort Saint John, Canada (it took four separate airplane rides to get here).  The temperatures are a little different.   The high in FSJ today was minus 5 degrees, and folks up here are feeling good about their “heat wave!”  A heat wave?  Yep, to these guys, it’s a heat wave.  That’s because a week or two ago, it was a cool (and I’m speaking literally now) minus 41 degrees in this part of Canada, and the temperature stayed there for a couple of weeks.  This is cold, folks.

So here I am, doing my best to stay warm, trying not to get tangled up with any of the moose out on the roads in this neck of the woods.   Back in the hotel, it’s nice and toasty, and of course, I’ve got my laptop.  The Internet is one of the great wonders of the world, because I’m getting some great stuff from my friends out here in the hinterlands.  Take this flyer, for example, for the Salton Sea TT from my friend Alan Spears…