Monday April 13th was check out day at the rental house in Macklin. After morning coffee Byron, Chris and I packed up all of our gear, and tidied things up around the house. By late morning we said our goodbyes, and Chris and Byron headed off towards Calgary.
It took me slightly longer to get my gear packed up but I hit the road a short time later. I headed back up Highway 13 towards Edmonton, and made a few stops along the way. First I stopped at the Amisk Hotel and dropped off some history books that we had borrowed from the town library.
I took my time, and wandered around on a few backroads a little. I found the North Rosyth School and took a photograph here with the view camera. I also stopped in Lougheed, hoping to photograph the old hotel. But the light wasn't right and all the good angles were backlit, so the view camera never came out at this stop.
It's interesting that the tallest portion of the hotel, on the highway side, was once the hotel in the nearby town of Sedgewick. It was loaded up and moved to Lougheed many years ago. In the years following there were additions made to the hotel. It has been closed for some time, which is rather sad, as it would have made a great location for the Beer Parlour Project.
The rest of the drive was somewhat uneventful, though I did make note of a couple of interesting old farmyards in the Camrose area. I will likely take a day trip out that way in the not too distant future. I arrived back home by early evening and saw another successful BP trip come to an end.
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