The Castle is Rolling

Started our trek south today, weather is nice, cool but sunny with little wind.  We drove straight through to Milk River, AB (about 650 Km or 403 mi) and for us with stops for puppy walks and a quick fuel stop about an 8 hour trek.  We purchased a small extra fuel tank this summer so we could make this leg of our trip without having to fuel up at a regular gas station as there are not many options to get a big rig like ours into a gas station along this route which means we have to stop unhook the rig then fuel up and hook up again. Pulling the rig on a good day 500 km is about our limit.  We also wanted the extra tank so we didn’t have to sweat bullets about fuel as we have done on previous trips wondering if we will be able to make our next stop if we run into windy conditions as there are areas we drive through on the trek south that do not have any services for miles.  Milk River is about 20 km (12 miles) from the border so it puts us a good position to cross the border and reach our next destination in good time.  We are never sure how much time we might have to spend at the border, depends on how busy they are and if they decide to check the rig, etc.  We always like to leave lots of time for border crossing either direction we travel.  The campground at Milk River (Under Eight Flags) is a nice clean small campground and reasonably priced.  Wi-Fi and cable are not available at this campground so we hope the weather is good tomorrow, it did look good when we checked before we left this morning so if the sun is shinning when we get up we will be on the road early.