Little continental breakfast is always a good start for the day
With 592 miles behind, we start the day toward Winnipeg, Canada.
It is July 17th.
It is a short route, but I consider border pass today so ...We should not have problems at the Canadian border. We are family and normally we are on the safe side of the travellers crossing the borders. But I was proved wrong more than ones and we had our car searched and for 2 hours and I was put in a glass container - I guess that is the modern days for a personal search. So I really don't know how the day going to be and for that reason, I don't plan a long trip for today.
It is early in the morning and a lot of commuters are on the road we are to, but for a different reason - we are on v a c a t i o n.
Just last Saturday, Jul 14 was my final from my 2 classes Summer semester at EIU. and that will make 8 classes down for the year so far.
With 592 miles behind, we start the day toward Winnipeg, Canada.
It is July 17th.
It is a short route, but I consider border pass today so ...We should not have problems at the Canadian border. We are family and normally we are on the safe side of the travellers crossing the borders. But I was proved wrong more than ones and we had our car searched and for 2 hours and I was put in a glass container - I guess that is the modern days for a personal search. So I really don't know how the day going to be and for that reason, I don't plan a long trip for today.
It is early in the morning and a lot of commuters are on the road we are to, but for a different reason - we are on v a c a t i o n.
Just last Saturday, Jul 14 was my final from my 2 classes Summer semester at EIU. and that will make 8 classes down for the year so far.
I am impatient to see the mountains. So far the landscape is flat and can be seen the same crop as ours -corn and soybeans as can in Illinois. But something new appears - rapeseed in astonishingly beautiful fields of sparkly yellow.
Although they look similar, canola and rapeseed plants and oils are very different. Canadian scientists used traditional plant breeding in the 1960s to eliminate the undesirable components of rapeseed* and created "canola," a contraction of "Canadian" and "ola." Canola oil is prized for its heart-healthy properties with the least saturated fat of all culinary oils.
Canola seeds contain about 45% oil. This large percentage of oil comes in a small package; canola seeds are similar in size to poppy seeds, though brownish-black in colour.
90% of production was in North Dakota, with smaller amounts in Minnesota, Montana, and South Dakota. Roughly 30,000 acres of canola grown for planting seed are scattered throughout Colorado, Montana, and Idaho to supply U.S. and Canadian farmers
And here it is
Brief and courteous interview and we are already on the road, Asking ourselves - what is new, what is different here. We are in a foreign country after all - right.
It is in a way disappointing as we are finding so little differences here. Travellers are like hunting dogs on the trail when it comes to the differences. We live for that. We collect and cherish them as our trophy we find with such inconveniences.
Besides us other that seems to be "out of place" is the substantial population of Asians to the point that about 30% of the signs are on alphabet I do not recognize or words that do not ring a bell - of course, panda and dragon are excluded - we love China buffets. And for our great surprise, there is virtually no black people there and just a few Spaniards.
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