adding more Provinces

adding Saskatchewan, British Columbia and the Alcan Highway-Last shots before entering Alaska.

The Kskatenaw bridge has a unique design for support.
The Peace River and the bridge over it follow showing some of the beauty in BC, Canada.

North Dakota to Edmonton Alberta via Saskatchewan

And on to the scenic travels to Alaska.
One of the many beautiful sites in Jasper National Park.
First campground- a challenge to level Remi's coach. Watch that last step it could be a long one. (step wrong and you were down an incline into the bushes. Notice how jacked up the coach had to be for level.
Following our friends near one of the many lakes in Jasper National Park, Alberta.
This road really had it's ups and downs.

This was in a roadside park we stopped at. You could see the egg for quite a distance, as you will see below.

Saskatchewan/Alberta border and off to the adventures that lay ahead.
This border city is in both provinces, much like Kansas City is in two states.
Adding Saskatchewan to to the map-one more place to see and experience.
a lot of Saskatchewan was like the photo below until you got to a large city.
You knew you were in a small town when the first thing you saw was the elevators--either that or we were on the wrong end of town--nah.
This wheat art stood tall along the main street going through one of the cities in Saskatchewan.
This old house was between a split freeway - I would guess left from bygone days. Hard to get to and no place for the kids to play!!!!!!
Leaving the states once again for adventures with our Canadian friends.

leaving Mora on to Pine River then North Dakota & my old home town

The Mouse River. Where we used to go fishing as children.

someone's interesting summer home on the Mouse River.

The bell from the church I used to go to as a child now in the cemetery.
Old buildings no longer in use-the reason towns become ghost towns.

home and elevators in old home town.

My old school house or what is left of it. It was purchased by school mates brothers and the gym turned into an auto repair shop, now closed.side and rear of old school.
old movie house where it cost 10 cents to see the movie and you hoped the film did not break.
the only gas station in town-obviously not used in a long time.
more old buildings-this one is the Occidental building as seen by the writing on the wall.
some of the schools put the graduating years on the hillsides in white stone- they are up to the present day.
old water tower in town on the way to Minot ND
another novel building on the way to Minot
lots of standing water as we head through North Dakota

storm clouds just for Jackie. This was leaving Pine River MN.
This old depot was in Detroit Lakes Minnesota.
Lilac bushes are in bloom everywhere in Minnesota and North Dakota.
Stormy skies as we left Pine River for Minot North Dakota. Yes we had some rain.
before we could leave Bil's friend Dick wanted paid for his "fish win".

another quick trip from Texas to Minnesota

Bil collecting first fish of the day.
Are these the happy cows the commercial shows want to go to CA-I think they are better off where they are- no feed lots, plenty of grass to eat and wide open spaces.
a display in one of the towns along the way.

a very fast trip to Texas

a giant roadrunner on the side of the freeway
the Arizona moon
Pamela on her skates and an impromptu pose on the car.

stuff and such around the CA campgrounds

this yellow bird kept trying to get in the window.

it would make several attempts at the window then perch for a while.
Prado has a war re-enactment every year. we were there at the time they were getting everything set up.