The road to Saskatoon revealed a landscape with gentle hills and endless fields of flax and golden canola. A lot of cattle ranches out here as well but that was more than expected.
We saw some cute ground squirrels of a species we could not readily identify but they were everywhere. We also spotted our first confirmed coyote!
We have begin to see some new species of birds out here, but I will have to stop some time to get a clear picture of them to figure out what they are.
We got into Saskatoon only to find that some festival of some sort was going on and most of the hotels were full of people from all over the region. We ended up staying in this dive that did not even have internet.
We headed on to Edmonton the next day and as we got close to the Alberta border we began to see that many farmers had small oil wells in their fields. Oil is everywhere in Alberta!
We passed a few refineries on the way but the biggest was the Petro Canada one just outside Edmonton. These guys must be making a mint right now!
Everywhere out here there are signs saying help wanted. This place is booming and they need people bad. If anyone is looking for work this is the place to be. Hey wait! I'm looking for work! Well we'll see, I do like what I see out here but I would rather get something closer to home.
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