8,000 miles later...

We arrived back at Cabri Regional Park yesterday evening. What a long four or five days that was! But we made it, safe and sound. And, we arrived to better weather than we've seen since we left Utah.

I figured out that we drove approximately 8,000 miles (12,800 kms) since the time we left Cabri last October 5th.

Here's a rough route map of our travels this past winter season...

A rough route of our travels this season.

Of course that doesn't detail all of our back and forth and here and there driving in Mexico, nor our trip down to San Diego, nor all the driving we did in the red beetle rent a car.

But what a great winter we had. And Sherman came through with flying colors. Never let us down once! For a 20 year old motorhome (whose odometer hit 90,000 miles yesterday) we sure are happy with him. He needs a couple of minor repairs, because we sure did put him through his paces on some of the roads we took him on, but other than that I wouldn't hesitate to set out on another big trip tomorrow.

Here's our drive from yesterday...

Montana roads at 7:00am.

Lone tree.

Nice road in Montana leading up to the border crossing.

At the Turner, Montana border crossing. 

The U.S. and Canada actually share the building. Never seen that before, but it's a logical idea.

Not a nice road on the Canadian side.

Welcome to Saskatchewan.

Crossed the border at 11:00am. The lone Canadian border guard said he wanted to come on board Sherman. Never had that happen before entering Canada. I guess he was bored. Nice enough young man though, and asked all the standard questions. Let us in with slightly above the legal booze allowance.

The town of Climax. Yep.

Stopped in Gull Lake for lunch (thanks Sharon and Arnie!) and then went into Swift Current and stocked up on groceries. Then in to Cabri where we met with Liz (thanks for the wine Liz!) and family and picked up the keys for the park.

Yesterday's drive, 278 miles (445 kms).

They had a warm and dry winter in this area. Leaves are coming out on the branches early. Parts of the grass already need cutting! The water level in the lake is the lowest we've ever seen it, and that's not a good sign, but it's out of our hands. Hopefully there was enough snow in the mountains that the lake fills up later in May and June!

Today, we'll get the water turned on to the house, and start moving things from the motorhome. And, I'll go up to the shop and see how the little blue car fared over the winter. Lots to do around here to get the park ready for opening weekend May 20th.

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