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After the stay in Sioux Narrows it was off to the US. We crossed the border at International Falls with no problems. Then it was off to Two Harbors on Lake Superior in Minnesota. We were on a nice 4 lane highway for about 30 miles after we left International Falls then our Google Map […]
We had coffee and showers then got on the road to Sioux Narrows in Lake of the Woods, Ontario Canada. Lake of the Woods is over 70 miles long and wide, and contains 14,552 islands and 65,000 miles of shoreline. It is mostly in Canada but a small portion is in Minnesota. We were excited […]
We didn’t see any moose while we were at Moose Mountain but we did see a few beaver houses but no beavers. On Monday, 8/15 we were on Canada Hwy 1, Or “Trans Canada Hwy” for just a bit of time. Tuesday we basically lived on the Trans Canada Hwy. We were on it from […]
We got up early because we had 8 hours of driving ahead of us to get to our next campground, Moose Mountain Provincial Park-Fish Creek Campground on the Little Kenosee Lake which is southeast of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. The drive was smoky and we basically saw wheat field after wheat field; silos, big and small; […]
Originally we had planned to go into the Banff/Lake Louise area for maybe a couple of weeks but the fires and smoke added Alberta to our do-over list. So today we were going east until I tried to start the van and the battery was dead. The van has a safety feature that doesn’t jive […]
Monday was van service day and laundry day. The van needed tires which we kind of knew it was time. The tires were still the original factory tires and the van had 38,000 miles on those tires. The battery was down a little but we chose not to replace it. After the van service it […]
We drove out State Hwy 200 to State Hwy 83 to State Hwy 35 which took us to Kalispell. On the way we paid homage to Diane’s late aunt, Barbara. Exactly 46 years ago on their way back from Glacier National Park Barbara, her boyfriend, Diane, her sister and 3 cousins were involved in an […]
The plan was to leave Missoula at about 11:00 am to get to the RV Campground in Burns, Oregon at about 8:00 pm because the temperature was due to be 105 degrees there. So it was south on US Hwy 93; west on US Hwy 12 to Kooskia, ID; south on State Hwy 13 to […]
Diane had made 2 nights reservation at a Motel 6 in Missoula. We wanted to see the town on our way to Glacier National Park and it was time to get the van its regular service. But sometime in the middle of last night I woke up remembering that my driver’s license expires on my […]
Got up early and packed up in order to get to Old Faithful early. We arrived at the Old Faithful parking lot a little after 9:00. The parking lot was only about ¼ full and we found a parking space in the shade at the very back for Slinky. We walked up to Old Faithful […]