Shops in Waskesiu, SK

Berry Farm outside Skaskatoon,SK

Inside Boomtown ......Landvaters' Blog #5

Stop #2, July 11-12
I did laundry in the morning and then we drove downtown, across the Saskatchewan River, parked the truck and got our bikes out. There was a festival going on downtown along the river, we rode bike back across the river, where there was a walking and biking path, they also had a water area for the kids to play in and a skateboard park farther down the river. The weather was really nice this day and alot of people out enjoying the day. The next day, we went to Saskatchewan Western Developement Museum, 1910 Boomtown, it was like a street in 1914 to the turn of the century. It had a main street with different stores, like butcher shop, drug store, general store, dentist office, doctor office, livery stable, harness shop, blacksmith shop, church, school, railway station, and much more. They did have one room with tractors and farm machinery from way back when. Along the street where old cars, fire truck, horse and buggy, this was all under one roof, great find. For lunch we went to The Berry Barn, when we got there it was very busy, there were 4 other airstreamers there waiting for tables and one asked us if we wanted to sit with them, so we did, got to know them a little more. Lunch was very good, there specialty was berry pie for dessert, I had got a prairie berry pie, a little more tart than blueberries, the other woman go just a berry pie, and her's looked more like a blueberry pie, she also said it was very good. Went to an airstream dealer, didn't have much, then to Flying J for fuel and Costcos, before getting back to trailer.

Stop #3, July 13-15 Traveling day, July 13, we were parkers, so we left early and headed north to Princess Albert, Saskatchewan, arrived about noon, quickly made lunch and the other trailers started to pull in. Had another GAM, get acquainted meeting, from 4-5pm. Next day, July 14, we packed a lunch and drove north about 50 miles to Prince Albert National Park. We had stopped at the information center, got a few tips for the day. Drove to the other side of the info center, and parked our truck, got our bikes out and rode around town, nice paths along the lake. We then got back into the truck and drove to the marina, this area is not much more to see than being at home in a local park. There are no hill or mountains, mostly flat, pine trees and aspen trees, saw a couple beaver huts. We then proceeded south toward the trailer, on a different road than that we drove up on, the only thing we saw was a deer and a sharp-tailed grouse with its babies, and a few wildflowers, nothing out of the ordinary. A few in the group saw bear, elk, golden eagle, pelicans and deer. A few people in the group seemed to enjoy the area, but they were mostly from Texas area. July 15, we really didn't do much today, went to library to get on internet, went to grocery store. picked up a few items for the move tomorrow, fueled up the truck and back to trailer. We sat around awhile and talked to a group of people, Ken then washed the trailer, like everyone else did today, not too many places will let you wash you rig, so when you have a chance to do it, you just do. We then had a drivers meeting a 7:30, changed the roads we are traveling tomorrow. We've really had beautiful weather so far, 50's at night and 70's during the day, with a breeze blowing most of the time.