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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 flat fields and mostly treeless plains.
Here comes the fun part, centigrade, kilometers, liters, etc. This should be challenging for the next week. I freak every time a see a sign that shows how far we need to travel because I forget it is kilometers and not miles. Also, when I check the average temperatures for places, I am shocked that the average high is 18 degrees. We got gas for the first time in Canada and paid $1.30 per liter Canadian which is $5 US per gallon. With the 3% foreign exchange rate on our debit card, that
will add 15 cents per gallon, making the total cost $5.15. Welcome to Canada.
We stopped at Wal-Mart in Weyburn, SK. On recommendation from our friends, Dick and Jane who have done this trip, we bought a phone card that costs 2.1 cents per minute to use at pay phones , instead of paying 79 cents roaming charge per minute on our cell phones. This is our first time doing this and it was a little confusing, especially when our receipt said we paid $10 for 10 minutes. It was a Wal-Mart data entry error we were told. We were very disturbed with Wal-Mart when we learned they only gave us 96 cents per US Dollar. On our way out of the store, we were approached by a stranger who offered to give us dollar for dollar exchange of our US money for Canadian. That was very suspicious.
We decided to by-pass Regina (Re-gine-a) and drove 39 west to Moose Jaw and then 2 north to Chamberlain. We passed through a beautiful little valley as we crossed over Buffalo Pond Lake. There was suppose to be a rest area there and restrooms, but we saw neither. We stopped
a few miles past there and had lunch on the side of the road. We continued listening to our audio book today as we drove. It really passes the time as we drive through these boring plains.
We did see a herd of deer along side the road and in Davidson, there is a little rest area with a huge coffee pot, a sheltered picnic area, clean restrooms and a big log cabin bird house, housing many birds. Also there is a statue of a man with a fiddle next to a wagon. We also passed a sign for a campground called David Laird. You guessed it, Dave’s middle name is Laird.
We stopped for the night in Battleford, next to the historic Fort Battleford. There was sand blowing in the air around us. A local told us that the farmers were planting their fields but it hasn’t rained here in a long time, so the disturbed soil just keeps blowing around. The town campground, Eiling Kramer also has a windmill and generates it’s own power for the town and sells the rest to the power company. Beef stew for supper, a walk after and then a movie.
Then we called it a night.
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