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Day 5 - Sask,Manitoba,Lake Superior

9/5/2017

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Whew - what a ride. We arrived early at Canadream to pick up the van but still didn't get out of there until four o'clock. This made for a long second day drive with no stops - not even in Drumheller to visit a dinosaur.  We missed the first seven hours of Saskatchewan because we drove on a back road to our first campsite at Swift Current. I tell you, it's no joke for two seniors to organize for sleep in a camper van when they have never done it before. But we did manage to sleep enough hours to get up at 6:00 am and on the road again. 
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Rita waking up in Swift Current and asking where the washrooms are. (We decided not to use the on board washroom - ewwww....)

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View from the campsite - out first glimpse of Saskatchewan.  
​As you will see ... the view repeats itself many times.



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​Saskatchewan ...

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Saskathewan...

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And Saskatchewan.   The colours are so soft!

​Up again early to drive eight hours to a KOA campground just past Portage La Prairie - arrived late, made our first meal (boiled garden potatoes, garden tomatoes and green beans) in the van, whom we have named, Mable. Too tired for photos.  But I can say that I've never thought of Manitoba as a prairie province until now. We were well into the province before we were treated with some green trees.

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At last some green trees and a lake!  We took on three houseflies in Portage La Prairie, all of which Rita, with some amazing Bruce Lee techniques, eliminated.  And then Ontario between Manitoba and Thunder Bay.

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Endless highway to get used to Mable's cruise control.

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The best part of my childhood and adolescence was spent on an island in Lake near my birthplace. As we drove above Lake Superior, the scrub spruce, the mixtures of moss and lichen on the rocks, the small island in the small lakes and even the quality of light stirred that special childhood happiness that I knew when I was on that island. 
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So, do you think we magically reached the ocean?
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Nope - it's just Lake Superior in all her vastness.

We are now resting from the camping life in a Mariott Hotel in Sault St Marie. Off to North Bay to visit my family tomorrow.  It will be an easier day since instead of it being an eight-hour drive, we'll only be driving five hours.
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Doreen
9/5/2017 06:26:18 pm

You made it to Ontario! Yay! You are glad you're not here. The smoke is sickeningly thick😷 With no reprieve in sight. Well enjoy the rain and a campfire and keep sending photos. So enjoy your writing and sharing of your adventure 🤓

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    Kuya Minogue is resident Priest at the Creston Zen Centre. She has been training in Zen since 1986.

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