We're 1,332.9 miles north and slightly west of Yatahai in the little town of Drumheller, known for its incredible dinosaurs...models of dinosaurs are everywhere including one that's 80'+ standing astride the Chamber of Commerce building. But we didn't come here for the dinosaurs, we came for the well-treed RV park built along the Red Deer river that has Internet access. We've discovered that Internet access is challenging, sporadic at best and therefore frustrating! That's a long way of saying our blogs will also be sporadic!!
Our second camp was along Canyon Ferry Lake, a huge (30+/- miles long) reservoir created by daming the Missouri River just east and a bit south of Helena, Montana. With our own private beach, a stack of driftwood and a roaring fire, it was perfect...exept for the voracious mosquitoes! Listerine was a wimp and only Cutters and our mosquito head nets would do...so I gave you bad advice last time.
Wednesday we made it across the Canadian border (1,015 miles from home) without incident, stopped at the Milk River (a town) visitor center and discovered there was a Provincial Park just a half hour east. Luckily, we got one of the last sites in Writing-On-Stone PP, really private, nestled on the banks of the Milk Rive and complete with a young buck. Writing-On-Stone has been a very spiritual place for the First Nations (most recently Blackfoot) for thousands of years. The stones are mainly soft sandstone that has been eroded over time into fanciful "hoodoos". Because the stone is soft, it was also used to create pictografs and petroglyphs...the largest collection in all of the northern plains.
Thursday our "route" (quotation marks because we definitely don't have a pre-planned route!) took us though southern Alberta. Incredible dryland farms of alternating fields of wheat (now a soft green) and yellow sweet clover spread to the horizon, occasionally dotted with farm houses and buildings surrounded by private forests of pines...almost no fences and definitely no trash along the roadside. Our guess is that being a legume, the clover fixes nitrogen into the soil making crop rotation very beneficial.
Today, we'll probably get west of Edmonton on our way to Dawson Creek, a town just across the border into British Columbia and mile 0 of the Al-Can Highway!
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