Google Earth measurements (straight line between locations)
Distance from Vancouver: 1332 km
Distance from Kingston: 2214 km
Distance Traveled Today: 758 km
Total Distance Traveled: 2457 km
Today we drove from Calgary to Regina, which actually took less time than the drive from Penticton to Canmore, but was much longer! The Trans-Canada Hwy through the Prairies is much easier driving! Also the Calgary to Regina leg is the second longest leg -- our longest leg will be from Winnipeg to Thunder Bay.
We also saw our lowest gas price so far today, in Medicine Hat, AB -- only 88.9 cents/litre! Calgary and other cities were at around 91 cents. As soon as we crossed into Saskatchewan though, the prices jumped to 99.9 cents!
We stopped at Walsh, AB (near the Alberta/Saskatchewan border) for lunch: peanut butter and jam sandwiches again! We are getting a bit tired of them but that jar of peanut butter has fed us for many meals. Maybe we can switch to a different type of sandwich after we finish the jar (which should be soon).
As we go out east, we are noticing more and more bugs! I am pretty sure both of us got several bug/mosquito bites. We will need to get bug spray tomorrow. A lot of bugs also hit our windshield and front grill of our car! It was getting quite messy until we hit a small rain storm just outside of Regina. It was like going through a car wash and cleaned off the majority of the mess!
We will spend the next couple of days looking around Regina and Rouleau, where Corner Gas was filmed.
A teepee in Medicine Hat, AB
Entering Saskatchewan: "Land of the Living Skies"
Coincidentally, we saw this truck right after a
conversation about blue moons.
Lots of these too!
This was the view to the left and right for most of the drive. The
sky seemed to form a dome around us. Also, the only shadows
to be found were made by the clouds themselves!
But some parts of Saskatchewan were bumpier than expected!
Made it to Regina (there was a rain cloud right outside the city!)
conversation about blue moons.
I saw more oil drills in Saskatchewan than Alberta!
Lots of cows!
sky seemed to form a dome around us. Also, the only shadows
to be found were made by the clouds themselves!
Spectacular photos man! And you don't often hear that of the prairies.
ReplyDeleteBut it has its charm. Those of us who grew up in the city are used to being in cramped spaces, so that when you get out into such a wide vista, there is a unique beauty to it all. This is why I keep going on and on about Northern Nevada. It's freedom, man. That "dome effect" - it helps to make you feel small and insignificant just to realize how big the Earth and Sky are.
Those photos also bring back some memories. We stopped in that rest area in that 2nd photo for lunch, 4 years ago! It's pretty crazy that you've now photographed it. Meanwhile, stuff like the 3rd photo happens all the time when we travel - stuff we're discussing would suddenly appear elsewhere, either outside, or in the songs we're listening to. It's one of the cool things about road trips. Photo 8 was a bad one; when we went through Saskatchewan I got dizzy from all the bumpyness. The road there sucks!
Onwards to Corner Gas!!
Thanks! About half of the photos were taken by me, the other half by Laura. Our camera is pretty crappy but Google Picasa's "I'm Feeling Lucky" photo fix is MAGICAL. It's really good at fixing the washed out colours due to the large amount of sunlight!
ReplyDeleteWait, you fixed the photos?
ReplyDeleteThat's cheating. :P
Can only fix colours/scale pixel values, not change angles, etc. It still counts! :P
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