Back in Canada

My air card doesn’t seem to even work in the states, perhaps, I was out of range, regardless I am doing this post from Word.

We slept well this morning of Saturday, July 4. We slept from 1am to 7:30am in the car at some truck stop in North Dakota. The air in the car was a little thin at that point in the morning, but I started the car, with the fan blowing, fresh air in breathing went back to normal. Amazing how we adjust in our sleep and breath big breaths rapidly when we are running out of oxygen. We will leave the windows open slightly if we sleep in this little car again.

I won a great victory this morning. Before we left I bought a GPS, that Michelle wanted nothing to do with. She says it is for stupid lazy people, that can’t find their way. I found it priceless, but Michelle printed out google map directions for herself, and refused to even have the GPS anywhere in sight or ear shot wile she is driving. Well guess who is using the GPS now. The thing is great, even when we hit Saskatoon, and they had the big Arbys sign on the way into Saskatoon, we are like “we need Arbys!”. Well we did several km of the strip, and no Arbys, so I punched it into my $88 GPS, Arbys is 4 km strait ahead, who would have known otherwise. After all that Arbys wouldn’t take our coupons, from the $20 coupon book.

Gas is so cheap here in the states, but we all know that. I was surprised that Saskatchewan gas was $1.06, We haven’t seen gas above $0.92 a liter for months in Alberta. I still fill my truck up with $0.60/L propane.
North Dakota is flat prairie just like Alberta and Saskatchewan, boring. Michelle is up for a treat when she gets to drive through Chicago. If you recall I have done this trip before, when I picked Michelle up, but having all her stuff moving, we opted to go north around the lakes to return to AB, so she never got to drive through Chicago with me. I went through at night last time and it was a crazy mess of cars merging into lanes from underground and above ground and I don’t even know where they came from a lot of time, but the city was not resting at night. During the day it is probably wall to wall 8 lane traffic jam.

We were thinking we might drive dune buggies across Canada next summer, on the Iron Horse trail, which is the old railway track that goes by our house, with tracks removed. We got 2 other girls from Willingdon interested in getting quads and coming for the trip too. I don’t believe any of the women will carry through with it, after the first 4 hours they will be so dirty, they will likely want to go home. But we don’t know how far the trail goes East or west. Keep meaning to look it up online. Hate to be going without a destination.