We drove alongside an old historic bridge. They only allow foot traffic over it anymore, but it was pretty cool and actually look very well preserved.
Today's drive was different because we are out of the mountains.
Yes, we have crossed the Canadian Rockies
for the last time this trip. We traveled through Alberta and into
Saskatchewan today and are parked in a little 
town called Foam Lake,
in their city park. It is a very nice campground and there are about
7-8 campers in here.
The areas we saw today are mostly
devoted to farming and there were some horse farms and cattle farms.
They raise a lot of canola here and some is processed into cooking
oil and other is used for bio-diesel fuel. We also passed some mining
operations that we were not sure about. Terry guessed correctly
though. . . I don't know how he does it, but he thought they might be
mining potash. Well, that's EXACTLY what they are doing. We will have
to do more research to find out exactly what it is and what it is
used for. We also saw a lot of cone-shaped devices in the fields.
Some appeared to be hard cases and others like tent material. Terry
once again correctly guessed when he asked if they were beehives. He
figured the covers were to protect the bees and keep them in the area
to pollinate the canola.
Tomorrow we continue our trek across Canada.
Till next time. . .
Dale
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