Canada

This is the route to Moose Jaw through central Canada

Motel in Moose Jaw in Midwest Canada
Motel in Moose Jaw in Midwest Canada

On the road again!!

In this new stage of Coast to coast trip through the United States and CanadaToday we have traveled 700 kilometers and we have already traveled almost a whopping 13,000 km!

We find it incredible how well we did and how much fun we had on the road, on the road!! We are in a road trip.

From Calgary, in the state of Alberta, we have once again taken the Trans-Canadian Highway 1 but also Moose Jaw in the state of Saskatchewan, near Regina, its capital.

As in New Mexico and Arizona in the United States, in the Canadian Midwest there are endless, endless straights in the middle of large expanses, green in this case, smooth terrain, absolutely flat, with cows and bales of harvest in the fields.

Nothing else. Just road and sky. Just Aurora and me.

The view into infinity, a road with few people, the “cruise controll” of the car means that you can only concentrate on yourself most of the time.

We have already learned to enjoy the path, to feel the path, to be on the path, to make the path. Little by little we are evolving for the better.

Crescent Park in Moose Jaw in Midwest Canada
Crescent Park in Moose Jaw in Midwest Canada

On the road again!! towards ourselves!!

On the way we crossed the city of Medicine Hat, which has about 70,000 inhabitants and is crossed by the Trans-Canada Highway and the South Saskatchewan River.

This area has vast reserves of natural gas and that is why Medicine Hat is known as the gas city. It has a landscape of valleys, cliffs and rivers, and is quiet, pleasant, perhaps run down.

It seems that various venues, cinemas, nightclubs, dance halls went through a time of splendor that still lingers in the environment although, in this case, any past time was better. At least it seems that way to us.

Orderly city, with many flowers.

Moose Jaw in Midwest Canada
Moose Jaw in Midwest Canada

Already on the route we stopped to eat again in a truly village bar in Gull Lake, near the lake of the same name dedicated to leisure activities.

The town was really small, a road town on the trans-Canada highway in the province of Saskatchewan (note: in Canada there are no states but provinces, that is, British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Quebec and Ontario, for example, are provinces). state.

Forgive the reader if at some point I have called them states).

Saskatchewan It is the central province of the Canadian prairies. Its capital is Regina, although its most populated city is Saskatoon.

The majority of its population is concentrated in the southern part of the province.

Moose Jaw in Midwest Canada
Moose Jaw in Midwest Canada

Agriculture is a fundamental part of its economy, especially wheat, of which 45 percent of all of Canada is harvested.

Another fundamental source of the province's economy is mining, being the largest producer of uranium in the world.

The name of the province comes from the Saskatchewan River, which means "quick-flowing river."

After eating we continue the journey until Moose Jaw, where we have the motel. It is a city in south-central Saskatchewan, next to the river of the same name, which has about 35.000 inhabitants.

It is known as a rest and tourist city that serves as a center to many small towns and farms in the surrounding area.

Moose Jaw in Midwest Canada
Moose Jaw in Midwest Canada

Once landed at the hotel, we take a long walk through the city where we can see many paintings on the party walls of the houses done with taste.

Some buildings are well maintained, there are flowers throughout the city and a park, crescent park, quite spacious, large, with a river that runs through it, small, perhaps artificial, and where we also see a stage for concerts or theatrical performances with an audience of benches of various types and grass.

We took the opportunity to go to the supermarket and buy dinner.

We headed to the hotel, had dinner and connected!! End of a day with fantastic sun all day, clear, blue, clean day.

About the Author

Salvador Samaranch

Salvador is a great traveler and collaborator of Guías Viajer, where with a series of articles he tells us about the great experience of his trip Coast to Coast through the United States and Canada

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