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Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Wednesday. July 27, 2011

Up and moving across Canada with a beautiful sunny, cool morning. The weather should warm up some as we cross the Prairie. Crossing the Prairie here is a lot of oil and gas wells they have found here. Seems millions of years ago, there were all kinds of dinosaurs
here and their remains have
decomposed and the result is $$$$$ for the farmers. There are many bales of hay harvested, but they are only along the Hwy. and the rest of the acres are just sitting out
there. There is one million acres of range land that is used for cattle grazing in the small area around Brook, Alberta where we stopped
for awhile. We are about one hour away from Medicine Hat, Alberta.
It is the last city before we cross into Saskatchewan. In Medicine Hat it seems the Cree and Blackfoot Indians were fighting and the Cree medicine man deserted them. The Cree thought this was a bad omen, so they put down their weapons and were killed by
the Blackfoot. That is how it got its name, meaning Medicine Man's Hat. lol lol
Medicine Hat also has a prehistoric river buried and produces an unlimited amount of cool water and more than 26 billion cu. yds
of natural gas reserves are here. Interesting, huh.
There are very many fields of vibrant yellow Canola fields here that are very beautiful and striking. Also they grow Alfalfa in the median of the road and it is harvested by the farmers on each side. The farmers determine who and how they will harvest the crop. Heard my first "aboot" here in the Saskatchewan Travel Center. So far on this trip we have seen only one bear and one coyote. Sure thought we would see more animals than that. In Medicine Hat we saw the Worlds Tallest Tepee. This area is
also called "the badlands". Saw another cute sign,
THINK AND DRIVE. Rodeo going on in Medicine Hat now so we could not get a
room. We had to go farther down the road to Swift Current (really that's the name) and pulled into a Thriftlodge Motel. Sounds good, eh! hahahahaha. This is not the Best Western, but it will have to do. Frank got a real kick out of the radio sitting on the night stand, and the plug just does not quite reach the socket. hahahahaahha (really upscale tonight)
We drove 2374 miles so far. This is the longest trip we have taken yet and were not even close to Michigan.












1 comment:

Mildred said...

Love what you give us about the area you pass thru.Our farm grew the rapeseed (canolla)and it is grown big time in parts of Europe
I'll tell you more about the hay!
You are missing a very hot spell it
is 101ยบ windy 5%humidity. just blows the breath out of u. Motel is
good, looked on line. Radio?? We had the ultimate bath..pitcher and
bowl in one motel...hoho. love mgn