Saturday, April 28/2018

I was up early this morning thanks to the singing birds.  They were quite melodious and I was unable to get back to sleep as they were quite LOUD!!  There is nothing like truly happy birds in the morning.
The sun was shining and high temperatures were in the forecast.  Spring has definitely sprung here in Roundup, Montana.
Today, we will be crossing back into Canada so I got all the necessary paperwork ready for that and once we had showered and fueled up the truck we headed down the road.
What proved rather incredulous today was the amount of snow that continued to lay in the ditches alongside the highway.  Montana either got an incredible amount of snow this winter or they had a pretty significant snow storm not too long ago.  With today's high temperatures though, it won't be long before it is melted.
We saw several herds of antelope today and that is pretty much the norm for this area.  They were busy doing their "antelope" thing and pretty much ignoring the passing traffic!!
We made a quick stop in Malta, MT to top off the gas tank and fill the propane bottles then continued on to the US/Canada border.
We rolled up like we knew what we were doing, claimed what we had to and found out that we were over on the little cigars we had bought for Bernie.  Apparently we are only allowed to bring 50 cigars each and we had 100 each!!  Well, imagine that!!  Now why on earth would I not have checked that out when I was busy buying them?  Good Grief.  The fellows said that the duty would be 109.00 dollars on the other hundred cigars and although I love Bernie to death........THAT WAS NOT GOING TO BE HAPPENING!!  We were also over on our beer quota so we had to pay duty on it this time around.
I went inside, paid the duty on the beer and watched as the guard broke everyone of those 100 cigars and chucked them into the garbage.  Yikes!!  Apparently they have to destroy them in front of you so that they are not accused of using whatever it is that they are confiscating!!  I did not know that so it was interesting chatting with "the boys".
The one guard liked the "set up" of the truck so was asking all about the solar panels and how they worked for us so we had a chat about that too.  He also wondered how we liked the side by side.
I was in the office for a while so John must have thought they had thrown me into jail.   We all had a laugh about that and before too long I was headed back to the truck with a "Welcome back to Canada" following me out the door.  Such nice young men at our border crossing!!
We arrived at the Equestrian Campground at Sask Landing for the night.  Another one of our favourite spots to stay.  It is always quiet here and there is seldom any other campers here.   Occasionally, there are a few horse riders around but not very often.  It sit right along the shores of Lake Diefenbaker and the waterfowl and other bird life is more than abundant.  There is also sign of bigger animals as we have seen bear poop around!!
Once again, John managed to find enough wood so we were able to have a bit of a fire while he cooked steak and baked potatoes on the bbq.
The evening was pleasant enough although there was a bit of a breeze blowing but we managed just fine in spite of it!!  Booko was glad to have the full run of the place and ran around like an idiot for a while.   He eventually climbed into his lawnchair, got covered up with his blanket and fell asleep!  He has had a tough day!!
All in all, it was another good day of travel and getting back home (into your own country) is always a good thing.  Life is Good!!

Headed out

Passed 8 more of these parked down the road

Long hilly road

Our spot for the night