I'm sitting shotgun while "the Missus" sleeps in the back for hours.
Like the Ruby from Corner Gas a bit (a Canadian sit-com about about simple small-town farm folk getting into silly adventures).
For some reason, we almost got lost in Winnipeg. I'm not sure how that happened.
Actually, I guess it's not that difficult to understand, when the land just looks all the same.
The new boomland of Canada is Saskatchewan -- oil rich and mineral infused -- I saw all sorts of sections of rigs heading up and down the highway on the back of semis like this one. Oil is the big one, but uranium, potash, gold and diamonds lie just hidden beneath the surface. One uranium mine alone makes $1 billion a year.
Workin' for the oilman. (PC: In the employment of the oil industry development companies)
Mmmm, tasty.Getting across the prairies was pretty easy, despite my fears I wouldn't get a ride from the southern Winnipeg section of highway I was deposited on. And I was starting to get concerned, as my fingers turned a deeper and deeper pink, and then red. I mean, you kind of start to get intimidated after a bit, with 18-wheelers whizzing by literally a couple feet from where you're standing. And you know you're pissing people off. And although it was sunny, it was very cold. Even with several layers on I was shivering. But after an hour and 14 minutes of standing by a stoplight, a man finally slowed down to tell me I was standing in a pretty terrible spot. The great part was that, as he kindly told me this, another vehicle pulled over and told me to hop on in. From Newfoundland, on vacation heading towards Calgary, they took me right across the beautiful Canadian prairies. And it was a pretty sweet ride -- sitting shotgun, listening to tunes, and basking in the sun.
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