Travelled to Moosomin, SK today, pulled into Fieldstone Campground and what a beautiful well kept clean wonderful campground, will go back there if we ever get the chance. Lots of bush, trees, and a huge open field for Oreo to play, investigate and run her head off. Our site was one of the pull thru types set along side the campground road, hook-ups are always on the wrong side for our rig but nicely laid out all together and not a real problem. The picnic table was tucked in the bush along with a nice fire ring, lots of privacy at these sites. Took a bit of playing around to get the dish set up though with all the trees, Woody kept dragging it around until he found an opening in the trees large enough to acquire signal needed to use the dish for internet use. This campground did not offer WiFi but the owner is in the process of installing a WiFi system due to many requests by his patrons. We must be getting tired and anxious to get home, did not take one picture of this beautiful place!
May 28th travelled to Regina, short day of travel and pulled into King Acres Campground early afternoon, which means we will have two long travel days after this stop to reach our destination in Alberta due to the fact we could not find a campground closer to North Battleford, SK. Finding campgrounds in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta is a pain, as one fellow said to us we met along the way, seek and ye shall find but it is not easy. So many campgrounds do not list with Woodalls or other campground directories that are useful. I checked some of the online campground directories that are produced in Canada and they are a joke, absolutely not enough useful information, for example, are they big rig friendly, allow pets, have pull thru sites, size of sites, type of hook-ups, etc., nope give you name, address, telephone number and sometimes a map. Used up many minutes calling ahead for campground reservations. Note to self, pick up campground guides for Canadian provinces we plan on visiting or driving through.
May 29th, on to North Battleford, SK bucking a NW wind all the way, man that kills the fuel economy, averaged out at 9.9 mpg, that hurts after getting 14.9 the day before eh! Arrived at the North Battleford Campground earlier than anticipated, made excellent time today despite the wind. The staff was very friendly, efficient, and helpful. A nice little campground just outside of North Battleford operated by the city. The city really needs to budget for decent equipment to maintain the campground. The staff was using regular small gas push mowers for cutting the grass and there is plenty of grass to mow, no way could they can keep up with maintaining the campground, takes too long to mow grass with that equipment. Whoever designed the campground though did not understand Rving, the hook-ups for power and water were very far away from each other as well as too far from the designated area for the rig, we carry extra hose, etc. so not an issue for us, but is for some campers. They have a nice big dump station, we which we made use of, no sewer hook up at this campground nor the previous one, no point in carrying extra weight the remaining day of our journey. Using the dump station turned out to be a not so nice experience for Woody, just as he pulled the lever for the black tank to empty the hose dropped off the drain pipe and whoosh, you know what was pouring out, he quickly closed the lever but there was a mess, the ring that connects the sewer hose to the drain pipe on the fifth, had broke, good thing we had another one. Well he got it hooked up again, finished empting the tanks, flushed them and cleaned up the mess with the hose provided at the dump station. The saving grace to that incident was there were no people in line waiting to dump, Woody had gloves on, and didn’t get any of the mess on himself thankfully. We made use of their washroom and were on our way!
May 28th travelled to Regina, short day of travel and pulled into King Acres Campground early afternoon, which means we will have two long travel days after this stop to reach our destination in Alberta due to the fact we could not find a campground closer to North Battleford, SK. Finding campgrounds in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta is a pain, as one fellow said to us we met along the way, seek and ye shall find but it is not easy. So many campgrounds do not list with Woodalls or other campground directories that are useful. I checked some of the online campground directories that are produced in Canada and they are a joke, absolutely not enough useful information, for example, are they big rig friendly, allow pets, have pull thru sites, size of sites, type of hook-ups, etc., nope give you name, address, telephone number and sometimes a map. Used up many minutes calling ahead for campground reservations. Note to self, pick up campground guides for Canadian provinces we plan on visiting or driving through.
May 29th, on to North Battleford, SK bucking a NW wind all the way, man that kills the fuel economy, averaged out at 9.9 mpg, that hurts after getting 14.9 the day before eh! Arrived at the North Battleford Campground earlier than anticipated, made excellent time today despite the wind. The staff was very friendly, efficient, and helpful. A nice little campground just outside of North Battleford operated by the city. The city really needs to budget for decent equipment to maintain the campground. The staff was using regular small gas push mowers for cutting the grass and there is plenty of grass to mow, no way could they can keep up with maintaining the campground, takes too long to mow grass with that equipment. Whoever designed the campground though did not understand Rving, the hook-ups for power and water were very far away from each other as well as too far from the designated area for the rig, we carry extra hose, etc. so not an issue for us, but is for some campers. They have a nice big dump station, we which we made use of, no sewer hook up at this campground nor the previous one, no point in carrying extra weight the remaining day of our journey. Using the dump station turned out to be a not so nice experience for Woody, just as he pulled the lever for the black tank to empty the hose dropped off the drain pipe and whoosh, you know what was pouring out, he quickly closed the lever but there was a mess, the ring that connects the sewer hose to the drain pipe on the fifth, had broke, good thing we had another one. Well he got it hooked up again, finished empting the tanks, flushed them and cleaned up the mess with the hose provided at the dump station. The saving grace to that incident was there were no people in line waiting to dump, Woody had gloves on, and didn’t get any of the mess on himself thankfully. We made use of their washroom and were on our way!
As we were leaving Regina, waiting for a train to pass by, I saw these storage bins and thought the mural was great, so snapped a couple of pictures as we drove by.
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