Today we departed again at 07:30. At 09:30 we crossed into Saskatchewan and it looks remarkably the same, flat, blue fields, yellow fields, did I mention flat? We stopped somewhere at 10:30 because Jordan was about ready to pop a gasket. We got gas in Indian Head, SK for $1.39 and hit the road, the long flat road. About noon we decided we needed a big break so we took our girl to Chuck E Cheese. She went on some rides, we ate hot dogs and about an hour later we departed. The only wild life we saw today was dead. [View Full Entry]

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After our journey to Grasslands National Park, we headed towards the Great Sandhills, located in Saskatchewan. Can you believe that there is a little desert in Canada??? It is pretty cool eh??? The sand was really smooth and it felt soooo great on our feet! ehehehhe...It was a different texture of any sand that we ever touched. It was pretty cool! :) Anyways, we got there, but we didn't really have the chance to explore the place for very long because there was big stormy clouds coming towards us. That is why we only explored the beginning of the Sand dunes. [View Full Entry]

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After the Great Sandhills, we decided to head to The Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park (it is a park that is share between Saskatchewan and Alberta). The first thing we noticed when we got to our campsite is the crazy trees, which are called logde pole pines (we think that they might use those trees to built log cabins eheheh). Anyways, we thought they were pretty cool because every tree was super tall, but the needles where only on the top trying to catch to sunlight. That night we decided to hit the hay early and get up early the next day. [View Full Entry]

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We headed down south to see Big Muddy Badlands, the drive was really enjoyable! We had the beautiful Big Saskatchewan sky to look at and the we had the back roads all to ourselves. It was really beautiful in it’s simple way, endless fields and endless sky. Along the way we say all sorts of cute little buggers along the side of the road. Nigel thought that they we’re Prairie Dogs, he was super excited about it. In the small town where the tours left from, we stopped to enquire, but they would have cost us $100 for a tour guide, [View Full Entry]

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We called ahead to see for camping in the Grasslands, and a really nice Woman Collette (who was our tour guide the next day) set us up with everything we needed. Our campsite was unlike any other we had been at so far. It had an amazing view of the park and we arrived just in time for the sunset. It was in an open field up on a hill beside an abandoned convent. The mosquitoes were UNBAREABLE. We put up the tent and watched the sunset from in there. In the middle of the night, we started to hear some [View Full Entry]

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The drive wasn’t too bad but we were both exhausted from the trail. We arrived in Regina around 9 and went to the hostel where we wanted to stay, but it was all full. So we had our first night in a half decent motel. In the morning we headed to the farmers market downtown, which we were expecting to be pretty good since we’re in farm country. However, we were pretty disappointed at the size and selection there. Go figure. We only ended up buying a big bag of spinach and a big bag of mixed field greens, which were [View Full Entry]

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I'm a Good-News-Firster. I am of the mind that it makes it a lot easier to take the bad if you already know the good. So to that end, I have finally received my placement for the month of July! I will be living and working at Devaaki Hospital which is based in Karaikudi, Sivagangai District, Tamil Nadu (South India). It sounds like the hospital is privately funded, and it has several departments including Pediatrics, Obstetrics, Gynaecology, Orthopaedices, and Urology, as well as general surgeries. The hospital has five doctors, twenty nurses, fifty beds, and is apparently open 24 hours (we'll [View Full Entry]

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I've got India on the mind. I probably should have been doing my physics homework this evening, and I'm not particularly looking forward to getting up and biking to class in a number of hours. But such is life. I leave for India in 3 weeks! And so if I can figure out how to get this countdown to work, well...I'll have a countdown. [View Full Entry]

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A few clips taken with the digital camera. 1. How to safely mount a camel. Erin getting up on the beast. 2. Call to prayer. If you have never heard it, it is somewhat haunting. It can ne heard 5 times a day from wherever you are. This was taken from our hotel balcony in Selcuk, Turkey 3. Erin makes a friend. Petting a lamb in Samandag, Turkey. [View Full Entry]

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After packing up and taking our morning walk, we headed for the Canadian border. We have traveled just over 2000 miles since we started our trip. We crossed in Portage, Saskatchewan. We had no difficulties crossing the border and registering our shot gun. We learned that with the exchange fee, our US Dollar is worth 97 cents. We also learned we are in Mountain Time and we gained another hour. ( I wonder where the mountains are?) Crossing the border did not change the landscape, we are still in the prairies. We are really need to start seeing something different then [View Full Entry]

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