Okay, fortune cookie - I shouldn't have doubted your powers of precognition. Next time you tell me to be frugal, I'll listen. :-( (Story for another time.)
Woke up this morning, stepped outside and thought "Is my house on fire?" But no, apparently the smoke is from the forest fires in BC. Wow. That's a ways off. If the smoke was that thick in Saskatoon, I wonder how they're doing in Calgary? Not to mention BC itself, of course. Yikes.
Anyway, all the smoke made for a dull gray morning of driving. Saskatchewan Landing looks like it's probably a really nice park - today, it looked like the mist shrouded hills of Scotland (not that I've been there, but I've seen Braveheart, and I'm sure it's exactly the same. I kept expecting Mel Gibson to pop out, with half his face painted blue, and come running after me while yelling profanities. It's not that far-fetched.)
Anyhoo, we're making good time so far. Despite wanting to get going a bit earlier, we ended up leaving the city at 6:30 a.m. Stephen hadn't filled up the night before, and apparently there are no working gas stations on the west side before 6:30. Weird. Anyhoo, at the time I'm writing this, we just filled up with gas in Shaunavon, and we're now en route to Climax and the border crossing to the US. So far, the roads have been good, and only passed through one construction zone. Oh wait, I spoke too soon - the roads are starting to get crappy - we just passed a sign warning about "Broken Pavement" and now Stephen is driving like it's a slalom. Still, not as bad as that craptacular road to Coronach; Leader also sucked; and let not forget 60 kms of washboard road in MB. My fillings are still rattling from that last one.
Hey, my laptop just told me it couldn't find a wireless connection. That's okay, little fella, you keep trying.
Oh, so we were worried about forgetting something. Got the car packed up, got our passports, our cameras, our map book, etc. Remembered the toothbrush and the floss and the sunscreen. Know what we forgot to bring? Our map for our route. Doh! Fortunately, I had put it on a USB stick, and so we can view it on the laptop. Whew! I'd hate to have forgotten to see the Grand Canyon because I didn't have my map.
Woke up this morning, stepped outside and thought "Is my house on fire?" But no, apparently the smoke is from the forest fires in BC. Wow. That's a ways off. If the smoke was that thick in Saskatoon, I wonder how they're doing in Calgary? Not to mention BC itself, of course. Yikes.
Anyway, all the smoke made for a dull gray morning of driving. Saskatchewan Landing looks like it's probably a really nice park - today, it looked like the mist shrouded hills of Scotland (not that I've been there, but I've seen Braveheart, and I'm sure it's exactly the same. I kept expecting Mel Gibson to pop out, with half his face painted blue, and come running after me while yelling profanities. It's not that far-fetched.)
Anyhoo, we're making good time so far. Despite wanting to get going a bit earlier, we ended up leaving the city at 6:30 a.m. Stephen hadn't filled up the night before, and apparently there are no working gas stations on the west side before 6:30. Weird. Anyhoo, at the time I'm writing this, we just filled up with gas in Shaunavon, and we're now en route to Climax and the border crossing to the US. So far, the roads have been good, and only passed through one construction zone. Oh wait, I spoke too soon - the roads are starting to get crappy - we just passed a sign warning about "Broken Pavement" and now Stephen is driving like it's a slalom. Still, not as bad as that craptacular road to Coronach; Leader also sucked; and let not forget 60 kms of washboard road in MB. My fillings are still rattling from that last one.
Hey, my laptop just told me it couldn't find a wireless connection. That's okay, little fella, you keep trying.
Oh, so we were worried about forgetting something. Got the car packed up, got our passports, our cameras, our map book, etc. Remembered the toothbrush and the floss and the sunscreen. Know what we forgot to bring? Our map for our route. Doh! Fortunately, I had put it on a USB stick, and so we can view it on the laptop. Whew! I'd hate to have forgotten to see the Grand Canyon because I didn't have my map.
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