May 30, 2011

After a night of torrential rains and wind we decamped and drove the 3 miles of dirt road to the paved highway. It was touch and go for a while as we zigzagged over muddy ruts with the motor home spinning out several times. But we made it safely (thank you Michael) and headed north to the Canadian border. It took us an hour to go through immigration (thanks to 9/11). Besides being questioned by at least 3 “officials”,

This is not a lake in front of this house!

our motor home was searched. Desperadoes that we are, they found nothing unsavory and sent us on our way. Actually everyone was pretty nice.

The ride through the rest of North Dakota and into Canada was windy (20-40mph winds) and rainy. Lakes covered unplowed fields everywhere we looked. It was so windy that some of the windmills were not in operation. We even saw an occasional oil rig pumping away in the middle of a waterlogged field. We are so tired of the rain and wind. But it looks like we will have at least another 2 days of this mess.

Flooded field in ND

Oil Rig

We are camped at a very nice campground outside of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. Tomorrow we will head to Edmonton.

Three of the 5 images were taken through the window of the motor home. Note the roll of wheat in the field (yes that’s a field) and the oil rig. By the way, that is not a lake in front of that house. I’ve included 2 birds. Unfortunately the rufous-sided towhee is not up to my usual quality. I had no choice but  to shoot it back lighted and had to contend with chromatic aberration and noise. However, it is such a pretty bird and one that I had never seen before that I included it.

Gray Catbird

We are cell phoneless for now. Are trying to find campgrounds that have wifi such as this one. You can communicate with us through email or on the blog.