Monday, June 18, 2007

Day 13, Sat, Jun 16, 2007 Portage la Prairie Manitoba to Yorkton Saskatchewan

After a leisurely morning of making breakfast, packing and stowing everything and dumping the tanks we headed north and west again. We were in very flat Canadian countryside 99% of the day.

We did see a girl dressed in a wedding gown out in the country standing on the railroad tracks at a service road who waved at us as we went by. I noticed there were several cars parked near there. Barbara said the groom was near one of the cars. We would like to have known what was going on there, but it sure looked like someone was getting married on the railroad tracks!

We finally came into Yorkton, Saskatchewan. Just prior to that our cell phone changed time, so now we are in Mountain Time, allowing us to gain an hour. We stopped to gas up and although I do not have the exact conversion figures, it looks like we paid $3.96 a gallon for gas. Wow!

Shortly after that we saw a Walmart and went in and got three or four items we needed. Then we found a campground called the City of Yorkton Campground. And yes, the mosquitoes are still driving us crazy.

Even crazier, we ran into a couple from near Memphis, TN while we were camping at the Grand Forks Air Force Base that is traveling to Alaska. A couple of hours after we set up at the City of Yorkton Campground, Barbara noticed our friends from Memphis had pulled into the campsite right next to us. What are the odds of that happening? It’s a small world.

We drove about 240 miles today in about 7 ½ hours.

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