Today started out as most mornings….time adjusted though…..we got to meet yet another puppy, Missy who loves attention and gives great kisses. So today we are breaking down the blog by the 3 topics noted above..
Planes - today we saw a crop duster. We have seen them before in the states but we have never seen them as we cross Canada….in fact we didn’t even see it at first, it was like a shadow of a bird going overhead. Mom and Dad are also heading in our direction having boarded their plane in New Brunswick, landing in Calgary, right about now. We will see them in a couple of days and do mini vacation tour before we get them back on their flight home.
Trains - trains, trains and more trains….I love watching the trains as you go across the prairies! They are hugely long. If they were hauling trains like this long past our level crossing back home, we would probably look at it with a different perspective but I love to watch them go on forever. Today we tracked them a couple of times. One was travelling in the same direction at half our speed…we estimated it was about 3 kms long. Then there was one on the siding so we tried to measure the distance with it and estimated it was about the same as the other….as we rode, Larry would spot them and let me know….on one occasion, he said “there’s a train” to which I responded “where” to which the train’s whistle blew almost to say, “hey I’m over here”. We had a chuckle about that one. We happen to notice a lot of Canadian Tire cars or containers.
Motorcycles - this is really what the trip is all about right?…..So we have travelled this highway before back in 2016 (see blog dates for more pics). We made a couple of similar stops, saw some familiar sites. One stop was in Indian Head. The restaurant that gave us a free piece of Saskatoon Berry Pie (because we had never heard of it before) isn’t open any longer. There has been a lot of changes where we stopped, more commercial spots like Tim Hortons and such….We also passed Chaplin which is one of the worlds largest suppliers of sodium sulphite which is used in detergent. We have always thought they were salt fields, so I guess we were half right.
The best part of Saskatchewan though is the canola fields…so beautiful. They also have large grain silos. The roads in most places have a lot of wild mustard so there is a lot of vibrant yellow against all of the green.
For the most part we have had great weather and have managed to escape or ride around any major weather systems…looks like we are clear for tomorrow as well which will take us into Calgary for the next few days. We plan to leave really early tomorrow so that we land in Calgary early afternoon. It will be nice to make this stop and get some time with friends and with Mom and Dad before we move on to BC.
Teddy was able to ride in the sunshine today which he seemed to enjoy oh and we did find some Pop Shoppe Lime Ricky and Root Beer…couldn’t pass those up.
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| Every time I looked for my sunglasses, Teddy had them on! |
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| Canola fields….so beautiful! |
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| As good as we remembered! |
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