We spent two nights in new RV park just west of Saskatoon because our driver had a bout with the flu. Once he semi-recovered, we then traveled on to Manitoba. We got a later than anticipated start due to a slide out issue on the coach, but once we got it figured out (phone call to Tiffin Support in Alabama… Saskatoon what???). We stopped in Moose Jaw, and went downtown. There was some road construction barring the main street but we did manage to see a lot of the downtown, including the requisite hockey rink. While we were living in Washington State, we attended many Tacoma Rockets hockey games and Moose Jaw was a rival team at the time.
Continuing on, we stopped in the village of Wolseley, Saskatchewan. They sport a suspension bridge that was built about 100 years ago (since updated) that linked the two parts of the town together. We crossed the bridge and walked to the curling rink (I want to see curling in action, but it appears that all the rinks we visited are closed until winter).
Since the rink was closed, maybe the opera? No, there were no performances planned today at the Wolseley Opera House.
We got back on the Trans Canada Highway and continued to near Virden, Manitoba to spend the night at the Manitoba “Welcome Center”. Although the center was closed for the winter, we did befriend some French-speaking Canadians that were also spending the evening there and told us it was both safe and legal in Manitoba. Anyway, it was late and we are tired of traveling into the wee hours. You can’t see much at night . .
We passed oil well after oil well on the way, and very little traffic. We also saw enormous expanses of wheat / corn / grain fields with some of the largest farm equipment we have ever seen. Enormous tracked vehicles (four tracks) towing multiple, massive arrays of implements in use, probable due to both the size of the fields and the terrain.
In the morning, we left Virden and the Trans Canada Highway, zig zagging on country roads to the International border near Coulter, MB. We were asked by US Customs if we had acquired anything Canadian, but except for the mass of bugs, big bugs covering the front of the coach and the windshield, we had nothing to report. We felt good for some reason being back on US soil. then continued on to ND 5 then zigzagged over to State Route 2, a four lane road. We then continued through Rugby, the geographical center of North America, and on to Grand Forks, on the Minnesota border. We had to take a minute to rest at this point.
We are currently in Minnesota, on our way to Traverse City, Michigan.
Travelling with the Schinglers 