Hanna AB to Saskatoon SK

A pretty straight prairie drive today, much clearer than yesterday:

On drives like this, you may find yourself wondering how long it took to put up this line of poles, and how they kept them so well lined up:

This field was an unusual mix of the older-style small rectangular hay bales and the large round ones:

A friendly-looking grain elevator

Fields are dotted here and there with small pumping and collection stations, some for oil, maybe some for natural gas (since there was no visible pump)? These were for oil.

The pump to the left, storage on the right

Storage tanks had containment rings around them

There were quite a few in this area

 

Some local wildlife:

Once in Saskatoon we located the Pleasure-Way factory to make sure we could find it ok, as we can stay there overnight with electric hookup. Might be handy as it's supposed to go down to 5C tonight, but we're at a local Walmart right now.

Because we were in town by 2pm, we decided to visit the Western Development Museum. The site we visited here in Saskatoon was quite interesting. They have historic type businesses etc, recreating a somewhat typical main street in an early Western town, all indoors.

Main Street

Some nicely-restored old cars

Fire Hall, the harnesses are all ready to drop on the horses.

A soddy, right inside

A HUGE old steam-driven tractor, used 5,000 lbs of coal per day.

 

There was lots more old farm equipment on display, way too much to include here. Follow the link above if you'd like to see more from their web site.

Our route today was pretty easy to follow: