Rob-n-Hild, oot and aboot eh? Sorry - 2022
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Sasksatoon - Edmonton (547 km. 5.75 hours. Elevation maximum 736 metres) 
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| Not too early a start today as we were tired after working late last night. We filled up with gas on the way out from Saskatoon and had a pleasant drive through gently rolling hills until we got to Lloydminster. This is a fun town that straddles the Alberta/Saskatchewan border - literally. The border runs right down route 17 in the middle of the town. We had a quick walk for the photo-op - standing with a "foot-in-each-province" - and then drove on into Alberta. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| The next stop was one of those "world's biggest" statues that seem to be a feature of rural North America. The Vegreville Pysanka (Ukranian Easter Egg) is a very special roadside statue made with thousands of metal pieces and is really quite special. It is in a nice park as well, where we stopped and made tea to have with our lunch. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Then, another roadside statue lead to another fun stop. The largest sausage in Mundare was built by a sausage company started by a Ukranian immigrant that now has grown into a sausage empire! The statue is just on the main street where the original shop is still selling sausage so we had to go in and buy one - and then check it out straight away- Nam-nam! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| After that we hot-footed it to our hotel in Edmonton and straight to Walmart for some potato salad to eat with the sausage for dinner! We have a nice room with just one king-size bed (as opposed to two queens, which is the usual arrangement) so there is some more space than usual. The problem is the small fridge - not big enough for the 4l milk cartons, but this seems to be a common issue. I guess no-one appreciates milk the way we do... | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Coming up: All work and no play. We have planned a day of work so we are staying an extra day in Edmonton to put in some of those billable hours. | Start | Nerdy | The Largest... | Ornaments | Go To Previous Day | Go To Next Day |
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May/June 2022