The sun was setting, so we opted to only bike around 2 miles. From the south campground, we followed the road north toward the public loop road. We followed this for about .75 miles before deciding we wanted to save this loop for the morning. So instead, we changed direction and headed toward the north campground. This road took us past the play park, amphitheatre, circled back past the visitor centre, and finally back to our campsite. But, not before stopping at the John Ware cabin first. We listened to a 4 minute audio recording about John, but the gist is that John Ware was a cowboy in the Carolinas who was born into slavery, left for Texas after the Civil War, became really good at riding and training horses, and is most known for bringing cattle to Alberta for the first time. He had a really interesting backstory and left a legacy that is well worth the listen. You’ll have to go and listen to the rest of it yourself! Or read in one of the many books about him, but it’s best to just go and visit 🙂

Learning about John Ware’s cabin closed out our short adventure for the evening. We decided to have some dinner with a fire to wind down. Dinner this night included burgers and beans. Because the mosquitoes were so bad, we didn’t have dessert, and we cut our night shorter. Once our last log on the fire burned out, we went into our tent early to play games before bed. We played one of our favorite road trip games, Love Letter (I’ve mentioned this game what feels like a billion times before). Eric also taught me a new came, Convoy. It was good, but not Love Letter good, haha. After games, we were soothed to sleep by the faint guitar music someone was playing a few campsites down.