Surprisingly, it didn't take us that long to get across the Prairies. We were travelling through the Southern Parts, and then headed North to Saskatoon.
Once you leave Ontario, the speed limit changes from 90 km/h to 110 km/h. Throughout much of Manitoba and Saskatchewan, the highways were 4 lanes wide (2 lanes for each direction of traffic).
We spent one bug-filled, pretty crappy night near the border of Manitoba. The mosquitoes were awful, and we chose what turned out to be a popular truck stop. Needless to say we were up fairly early and crossed into Manitoba.
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| Sun in our faces at the Ontario/Manitoba border |
Here we are at the border of Ontario and Manitoba. We then powered on through, via Winnipeg and into Saskatchewan.
We continued on the Trans- Canada towards Regina. The Eastern parts of Manitoba look much like Northern Ontario, then the trees begin to decrease and it starts to look much more like the Prairies.
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Grain Elevator in Saskatchewan
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In Saskatchewan, there aren't so many places to pull over and set-up camp for the night; however, there were these great inexpensive campsites ($15 for no power, $25 for power hookup). We settled on one outside Saskatoon. It had showers, trees to hang-up a hammock and a great prairie view!
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| Saskatchewan campsite |
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| Relaxing in the hammock |
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| This is what the Prairies look like |
Next up Alberta, featuring the Rocky Mountains!!
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