Medicine Hat 
Arrived in Medicine Hat, Went for a bike ride along the city's trails, Good size bluffs all over the place, desert ontop, green grass below. I took a "short cut" to get to Miranda and noticed that i had just run over cactus!!!!
OMG dummy. (they have cactus in Canada!!??) Anyways, 5 miles into the ride.. Pffffttttt... Flat tire!! .. so we walk about a mile and find a bike shop that's open!! get it fixed right up, and off again! 5 miles farther, all the way to the other side of town... Pfffffffttttt..... !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.... Must have missed a tiny cacti present. Luckily i asked a city bus driver and he took pity on us and let us bring the bikes into the bus (no racks) dropped us off within a mile of the same bike shop.... Yeehaw.. . Then as we were leaving, My shifter Cable... SSSNNNNAAAAPpPPPpppp!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!... couldn't believe it, went right back and turned out a bolt just had to be tightened.... hopefully we make it back to the RV, as we're still about 3 miles from it... Found internet on a small curb island. Think it's enough biking for today.

Off to Dinosaur Park tomorrow!!
-Joe



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Swift Current 
Fixed our Black smoke/Sticky Choke problem with a tristytie wire....
RV starts up Great now.. Not sure if I'm opening it too far now?? Or if it can even be open too far.. Oh well.. seems good. Stopped at Swift current's Walmart for the night. It's hard to drive the RV more than
several hours per day... Swift current is a small city, maybe 20k? But they have a nice trail system that links several different city parks together. One playground was awesome! A built in Mini Waterpark!!! Oh man..
to be a kid again! You press a button and water spurts out of a bunch of different places. TOnight we found our first job!!! The Safeway store charges 25cent deposits on it's cart... (if you've seen Terminal you get the picture!) Miranda thought it was corney, but we each found 2 carts to return in the parking lot, so we got 50 cents each!!! our first canadian currency!!!
-Joe

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One More Day in Regina 
Moved our Camper to the Next Walmart in town :) then went for a bike ride to
center of downtown Regina. On the way back we stopped at a great museum,
highest quality displays i've ever seen!
-Joe


One of the displays. Included many stuffed specimans.

An Elk display.

One of the consoles on human impact.


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Long drive to Regina 
After 7 hours of driving we are now at Regina,SK. We would not normally drive so far, but it's all farmland, so nowhere to Boondock!.. Regina appears to be a nice city. We parked at a walmart and rode bikes alongside a town creek. Found internet at the first park bench we tried! how nice. We kept bicycling around the city parkland, found the city "Bird Sanctuary" and had fun looking at the Pelicans up close.
-Joe


The American White Pelican stretching after waking up from a nap.

A Mute Swan at the bird sanctuary.

Le Jardin Espirit near the University

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Lake Audy 
Miranda wanted to see bison, So we headed towards Lake Audy. the 12 mile drive took over 2 hours!!! SO washboarded.. afraid we were ripping the camper apart.
Once there though, we saw some bison, Maybe about 20 across a field.
found a nice capsite by lake audey. Water was really weedy and dark, so no swimming... Miranda found much wildlife, and in the morning we drove the bison view drive again, this time with her on the roof of the camper!!! :) excellent views.


Miranda's squirrel friend.

Songbird

American White Pelican

Red-Tailed Hawk (we saw 10+)

The Bison!

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