To begin with I withdraw any and all negative comments I made about North Dakota. That state has lush rolling hills covered in beautiful sun flowers and yellow blooming mustard; and the people are incredibly attractive and intelligent compared to... (drum roll please) Saskatchewan.
Talk about flat! We traveled in Saskatchewan from Portal (the border crossing), past Regina to Moose Jaw and all we could see was horizon with the occasional farm 9 or 10 miles off in the distance. The roads are good (with the exception of being stopped for about 30 minutes at two construction sites) and we were able to make about 530 miles before ending the ride in Swift Current. Miles and miles of wheat describes the landscape we passed.
We rode through Moose Jaw, just to say we were there, but it turned out to be a rather large town, obviously catering to tourist. This is all well and good but a little disappointing in lieu of the fact that both Charlie and I were rather expecting (hoping) for an old fashioned kind of town with bearded trappers running around in skin caps and fringed leather jackets.
At this point we are about 512 kilometers from Calgary and hope to make Banff by 4:00 Michigan time tomorrow.
I didn't take any pictures today because a picture would have showed an image with brown on the bottom (that would be the wheat) and blue on the top (that would be the sky). I was temped to take a picture of our windshields because the colors of the the bugs smeared all over them created a rather attractive mosaic of black, brown, yellow, red and green. During a last minute bout of sanity I refrained.
Maybe over the next few days I will tell you of some of the exciting times we had while dealing with some of the local folks here abouts, but I'm just too tired this evening, so I'll just check out for now.
Hope to talk to you tomorrow.
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