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Alberta Bound

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Thursday, June 1: Weyburn, Sask. Not a whole lot to report today. About a 4 hour drive from Portage to Weyburn. We did ditch the Hwy 1 for much of the way, which meant trading for more peaceful driving, but rougher roads. We are in a lovely green municipal campground across the river from downtown Weyburn. If the town sounds familiar, it was home of W.O. Mitchell and Tommy Douglas. Today it is quite a commercial centre with endless repair shops, warehouses, service yards. The downtown looks a bit sweeter with older brick storefronts, and treed boulevards. Will take a ride in later this afternoon. After I posted yesterday from Portage, we found a very nice bike trail along the riverside with a few old stately houses marked with the history of the town founders who built them. At one point we were stopped by these goose families.... amazing... one pair had 30 goslings and the other pair had 15. Never seen that before! And a photo of the peaceful little campsite...   ... and a couple of o
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Westward ho!

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 Sunday, May 28: Pukaskwa National Park We are finally heading directly west... only a couple thousand kilometres to go! We had planned to drive maybe 5 or 6 hours today, but we "paused" for lunch after about 3 hours at Pukaskwa National Park on the north shore of Lake Superior, and couldn't leave, it was so lovely. Once settled in to the pretty basic campsite, we took a "one hour moderate hike" out to the lake. Turned out to be somewhat longer for us old buddies, but still a pretty walk along beach, scrub forest, some muddy bits and a Soames Hill style stairways to some beautiful lookouts. The weather, as you can see, is quite lovely now, though still chilly in the morning and evening. The campground had a laundromat which we took advantage of this evening. Here is your hard bitten correspondent in the boring little wifi zone! Monday, May 29: Thunderation! Pat did get to see her Moose last night. Seriously though, we did see a couple of female Moose (Mice?) at
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