mosquitoes | City Forward

Start: International Falls, Minnesota (9AM)

End: Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada (10PM)

Miles: 626

Highlights: Beaver dams! Blue heron! Prairie dogs which had taken over an empty lot in Portage la Prairie! So much wildlife, and luckily the only animals we’ve hit (and boy have we hit them) are lots and lots of bugs. Canada is lovely in western Ontario and pretty uneventful otherwise, although the drive is just interesting enough to not get too monotonous. Stopped for lunch at Yesterdays Restaurant in Kenora, ON, looked like a small summer-tourism town among the woods and lakes. We’ve been keeping track of license plates and in addition to various U.S. states, we’ve seen Nova Scotia and New Brunswick! (The harder-to-find plates when you’re this far west). If we see Prince Edward Island we’ll automatically win.

Lowlight: Regina, at least the outer suburby area where our hotel is, has SO. MANY. MOSQUITOES. We got bitten up just getting things out of the car, ugh! One of the disadvantages of the prairie.

We have to get on the road so I’m only uploading one photo. Today we plan to get to and past Edmonton, and ideally to Grande Prairie or Valleyview in northwest Alberta. Apparently Kate and William (the royals) are also in Alberta these couple days… I’m guessing they were smart enough to fly to their destinations though!