Day 7

Tuesday – We have had beautiful weather since Thursday. Temperatures in the 70’s and very little humidity with today being the same. We drove 433 mile with two road construction delays where you had to wait for a pilot vehicle and one to wait for a house to come through. Each one of these toke 10-15 minutes each.



















The other delay we had was after we pumped $120 (Canadian) of gas and our credit cards would not work. After a rather lengthy phone call we got the one working again. The card companies put a hold on them because of suspicious activity. We don’t usually use our cards this hard. We will try to get the other one taken care of when we have phone service again.
We stopped at Inglis, Manitoba and toured an old wooden grain elevator. The bins, which is the main part of the building where constructed of 2”x6” nailed together laying flat. When the bins where fully loaded the building could shrink as much as 4’because of the weight of the grain. Because of that it was of upmost importance to load the bins evenly or else it would start leaning like the Tower of Pisa.

As we were driving we seen thousands of acres of barley, wheat and flax. At times you could see the road ahead for 6 or more miles.
We stopped at a campsite 25 miles east of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan that advertized internet connection but the connection is for only to check your email. So once again I will have to wait till tomorrow. It appears that there are a number of hot spots in Saskatoon, so we plan on hitting the road early to see if we can get these posted.

We are planning on driving to Edmonton, Alberta which is approximately 350 mile. If all goes well we might make it to Dawson Creek, British Columbia on Thursday. That is the beginning of the Alaskan Highway.