Tuesday and Wednesday, June 25 & 26

 

Yesterday and today we have been driving through Saskatchewan and Manitoba.  Tonight we are staying at the Minnedosa Beach Campground in Minnedosa, Manitoba.  We noticed quite a difference between SK and MB.  SK is all flat, plains and farmland while MB is hilly with lots of trees.  Today we took an off road trip to see the Inglis Elevators.  I will post a picture when I have internet.  This is the only row of original grain elevators that still remains and is still being used.  They were pretty neat and we learned that Manitoba is the barley capital of the world.  Our little trip ended up putting us on gravel roads for about 30 miles and then took us through a national park (which was pretty nice).  South central Canada is having some major flooding problems and we saw lots of evidence of that today.  There is water everywhere along the road.  You will see a fence and all of a sudden it is underwater for a ways and then reappears.  We saw lots of closed roads and one highway that had actually caved in.  We have been missing most of the rain and all of the roads we have been on have been in good shape.

Saskatchewan

Manitoba

Inglis Elevators

Enjoying a campfire on our last night in Canada

Lake Minnedosa - we camped by this lake

Tomorrow we should cross into the USA and hope to stay in Grand Forks, ND tomorrow night.  We checked with the campground host and he says we should have no problems with the weather or the roads tomorrow.  We are enjoying some cool weather, the high today here is 23 (Celsius which is about 75 F).  It seems weird to hear the high is 23 and the low will be 17!!