Medicine Hat

I'm in Medicine hat right now.  I figured I'd update the blog so people don't think I'm lost or something.  But the folks I'm staying with are really neat!! So kind, and of course I lucked out again- one of them is a bike mechanic and bakes good brownies.  He wants to look at my bike just in case (but my bike is a tank and probably doesn't need anything done).  His brownies were good though.  Maybe they're hers.

So far I've met a lot of people who know about psychology of human development, and about biology- two things I find really fascinating, so I'm really pleased I get to have great conversations with them.

Neat note:  when the little hairs on our body are moved they stimulate a reflex that relaxes the body.  It helps babies calm when they are held near a caregiver.  But it also makes us hungry- makes sense because if a baby is held it probably has a good chance of being fed then too.  So this guy was telling me that when I'm biking in the wind, and all these hairs are being moved, it is calming, but also makes me hungry.

They're big on potery and clay here.  I'm going to go check that out, and also a farmer's market.