North To Alaska -Day 6 - Vegreville Alberta

This is going to be a rather short blog today. Not a lot happened today, except we left the nice town of Saskatoon and headed further northwest on our journey. 

We have noticed a change in the terrain with more hills. We are enjoying some of the greenery as the leaves are opening up. We're getting that fresh green color of spring.

We decided to try a back roads route out of Saskatoon. There was a nice straight stretch on the map that looked like it might have been a good road traveling directly west. Well, it quickly turned to gravel!!

It was in pretty nice shape, only a little bit of spots with washboard. We decided to keep going rather than turn around. It was only a 12 mile stretch. Then we were able to swing north and get back up onto pavement again.

It has been really pleasant watching the landscape roll on by. I know snapping pictures of scenery isn't exciting for the rest of you, I guess. But to me it's kind of a trip diary that we are making here. We can look back on this in our old age. Especially when we are unable to travel anymore. We can look back at these pictures and these blogs and these videos and recall this wonderful trip. 

We did stop to fuel up in a little town called Maidstone. We've been fighting quite the headwind. We were a little disappointed to see our fuel mileage was only at 11.5 miles per gallon! Converting the liter price over to US (considering the exchange rate) we were paying $3.81 a gallon. That's not too bad.

There wasn't a lot for Nick to see. I think he was hoping for another dog park at that stop. Instead we made lunch and relaxed a little bit.

We crossed into the next province of Alberta in the afternoon about 4:30 p.m. We were cruising right along and this was more miles than we normally travel in one day. But we figured we might as well get this behind us, so we can spend more time further in the north enjoying other scenery.

We decided to hole up in a small Walmart in Vegreville, Alberta. We had a nice little spot in the corner of the lot. We picked up a few things inside. I was hoping to get a different set of wireless microphones for my GoPro. They didn't have any. This set isn't functioning correctly anymore. They used to. 

I did try them on my cell phone and they work fine. So it has something to do with the little transmitter isn't "playing well" with my GoPros? 

I do have a hardwired Purple Panda microphone that doubles as a backup. I will use that till I figure out what else I can do.

(The quilted travel journal is from my friend Judy, back in Wisconsin)

Otherwise, all you hear is road noise when we try to film anything from within the vehicle. So a microphone is of the utmost importance!

Here's the link to today's video on YouTube that goes along with this blog: 

Travel 279 miles today 

1,556 miles in total