Learned a lot, my brother is a great tour guide.
There are 120 different nationalities living here!
It’s an oil town; if you work in the on an oil rig, you’re a “rigger“.
I wish I had more time here, I want to go out to work with them, be a rigger for a day, HOW fun would that video be… my weak blogging arms failing me, getting coffee at the Red Basket at 5am, seeing oil up close gushing around.
This is Canada’s Desert… like, it rained twice this summer.
The sky is HUGE, it’s hard to explain, and it doesn’t translate in photo.
That’s the Brooks Aquaduct, built to water the fields in the 1910s… of concrete?!!
The new way, that machine, drives up and down the fields and you can control it with your iPhone.
During the tour my brother and I turned into ghosts.
Been playing lots of pool, my favourite spot is The Legion. I almost beat Ron there… SO close I sewered on the 8 UGH.
The bars are in hotels here, and many also have liquor stores in them, it’s kinda hard to explain.
The two main bars.
The people here are genuinely nice. Not happy crappy nice, genuine; then they’ll give you a shot or two, so Canadian I love it.
Pete took me to Brooks Animal Protection Society, where he volunteers. Special place, and heartbreaking, too. That’s his story he wrote about adopting his cat.
My lovely hosts!
And the tour will end of course the city’s very best radio station, 101.1 The ONE Brooks.
Where I messed up the song introduction.
Thanks for a great time Brooks, I’ll be sticking around for your giant Boxing Day party next year!
