After a night of down pouring rain in the early hours, we leave Yorkton, SK this morning with low hanging, rain loaded clouds, but not a single drop coming down. We return to the Yellowhead Route and continue our way West. The landscape doesn't change this morning neither, the road is still a straight line, surrounded by corn, wheat, canola, lentils and peas fields, and the occasional potash mine. It is very tiering to drive through this monotone landscape, and it doesn't help if here and there the monotony is interrupted by a train running next to the highway. But we need to move on, and so we pass Wynyard, SK, the Great Quill Lake, and towns with names like Mozart (music), Kandahar (Afghanistan), Guernsey (British Channel Island), Wolverine (animal), Dafoe (actor), and others. At least those keep the brain awake and soon we reach Saskatoon, SK for a lunch break. Then its back to the prairie and the endless fields and raking in more miles to Battleford, SK and on to Lloydminster, SK/AB (another divided town) where we call it quit.
If you're not the front dog the view never changes; doesn't matter here
"Don't fence me in", Bison made of barbed wire
by local artist Donal R. Hefner, Battleford, SK
"I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures." - Geronimo, military leader and medicine man from the Bedonkohe band of the Ndendahe Apache people, 1829-1909
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