Aug 15, 2012 - Cowboy Country

Swift Water, SK. We left Alberta and are now in Saskatchewan. There are no mountains here. Instead we see huge fields full of hay bales, acres and acres of golden wheat, ranches with rolling grass-covered hills chock-full of cattle and horses, and a plentiful amount of pothole lakes. En route to our destination, we got tired of the plains and took a detour to the hills. Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park is an interprovincial park straddling the southern Alberta-Saskatchewan border. It is Canada's first and only interprovincial park. After...

May 7, 2012 - Minot, ND to Swift Current, Saskatchewan, Canada

May 7 Minot, ND/Swift Current, Saskatchewan, Canada Departed at 8:34 AM in 49 degrees. Light rain to start with that has now stopped at 10 AM. Drove through a few hills and now it’s flat fields again. Thirty miles left to the Canadian border. This is Richard’s first border crossing with all new experiences. As we are welcomed into Canada it is 50 degrees and blowing hard. The Welcome Center is not open. And, we soon realized that public services are few and far between and most that are there are not open yet. We’re definitely ahead of the...

Jun 1, 2009 - Saskatchewan exploration

Yes, the gypsy’s are well and truly on the road again, last week’s report came from Fort McMurray, northern AB, this one comes from Swift Current, southern SK. Quite a geographical difference and a few stories generated along the way. As mentioned we had to come back to Edmonton for one last medical appointment and act as a licensed driver and moral support for Lyndsey taking her road test for her motorcycle license. I’m proud to report that my youngest daughter is now a biker bitch chick! (Oops), had a good ride and has already learned...

Jun 10, 2008 - Ontario revisited with pics

There have been wonderings as to where our pictures were. so we put some up of Onatario. The Manatoba and Saskatchewan pictures are coming soon but as we were told in Kendora "flat is flat" It was Partly sunny today that means that I saw the sun for about 15 minutes then it was cloudy and now it is raining hard and cold and windy again. I hear that it is warm and even hot there, well, not here

Oct 29, 2007 - Swift Current, Saskatchewan

Monday October 29...10:10pm Up early again this morning. I don't think we're quite adjusting to the time changes, and we'll be going through another one tomorrow when we get into Alberta. And then the time changes again with daylight savings time...oh, who cares! The one big RV shop in town opened at 9am and we were there just before that. The service department said they were pretty busy and "might" be able to look at our furnace problem this afternoon. But they also asked if we wanted to contact the two other RV repair places in town, and...

Jul 15, 2007 - Swift Current, Saskatchewan

We were up at the crack of dawn this morning and on the road out of Calgary at 7:00am this morning, gladly bidding good riddance to Whispering Spruce RV Park. It was another scorcher today - well over 30C again! It didn't bother us while driving though as we have the a/c on in the truck. Quite an easy drive to Swift Current compared to driving in B.C. - just get the truck up to speed, about 95kmh, put it in cruise control, then sit back and relax - very, very straight and mostly very, very flat. Entering Saskatchewan, we found a nice rest...