Another fine day for riding north, temps in high 60’s, 20mph winds out of the south and SW. Shoulders of SK-14 varied from none or ragged broken asphalt on the down side to smooth and 10 feet wide. When the shoulders are not useable, I ride about 2 feet inside the white line. If it appears that approaching traffic and overtaking vehicles are going to meet at my location, I get off the road if at all possible. With the wind at my back it is easy to hear big rigs approaching behind me. Much of the time I am cruising along with no vehicles on either horizon. It is a good feeling with the sound of the wind and tires singing on the roadway. About noonish, I was at a junction of a road going to Macklin and there was a monument, kiosk and wide parking area; just right for lunch. Betty and Bren were still behind me so I gave them a cell call and about 15 minutes later they pulled in, just in time for lunch. The monument is a 32 ft high likeness of a horse’s front leg bone. Macklin is the home of the International Bannuck Championship Tournament. Evidently, German Russian immigrants settled here and made a competitive game of setting up these horse bones and throwing more horse 
bones at those the opposing team had set up. At that time, there were horse bones aplenty and it was cheap entertainment for the entire community. Last August, over 220 teams competed. Oh yes, Bannuck translates to “bones”. Brendan said it must be Russian because the German word for bone is “knochen”.
At lunch time, I had ridden about 50 miles, the plan was for B & B to drive ahead about 20 miles and look for a good spot to dry camp (just a parking place, no hook-ups). As we crossed into Alberta the road shoulders were a little better. We coordinated via cells and they found a small roadside pull-off area, asphalted but only about 30 ft wide. Great! Betty drove back about 5 miles and waited for me at the junction of a road to Metiskow. The tailwind made it a good day, 88 miles probably will not be exceeded on this entire trip.