7/28 Winnipeg to Wassagaming

We left Traveller's RV Resort this morning at 9:45 and headed west on Trans Canada 1. We stopped for gas at a Flying J in Headingley. We got 83.295 litres (21.92 gal) for $.964 CAD a litre ($3.312 US a gallon).

Along the way we kept seeing blue and yellow fields of crops. I've since found out that the blue/lavendar fields are flax seed and the yellow fields are canola.

From Manitoba

We changed to Trans Canada 16 (Yellowhead Highway) and stopped at noon at a restaurant/gas station that was closed in Westbourne.

From Manitoba

We stopped at a rest area west of Minnedosa for about a half hour before going north on Highway 10 to Wasagaming Campground in Riding Mountain National Park.

From Manitoba

We arrived at Wasagaming Campground a little after 3 p.m. Riding Mountain National Park is 190 miles from Winnipeg.

We are on site 116 and Al & Symphony are in the site next to us. We have 30 amp electric and there is a water spigot a couple of sites from us. It's a gravel site pretty level with lots of trees, so no satellite TV. There are 3 local TV stations that we can pick up. We will be here just one night and we paid $43.10 CAD (40.07 US) for our site.

From Manitoba

We bought 2 Canadian National Park Passes (annual) for $57.90 CAD each ($54.27 US) when we checked in to the campground. We purchased the National Park Passes so we wouldn't have to pay the daily entrance fees at the Canadian National Parks, but it doesn't give us any discount on the camping fees.

After settling in at the campground, Mike and I drove out to Lake Audy Campground to check it out. Lake Audy is a self-registration campground, so we can't reserve a campsite. We took our new Garmin GPS to try it out in the car. Lake Audy is about 41 km (25 mi) west of Wasagaming. There are 2 ways to Lake Audy and we will be going in the southern entrance. We found out that the local roads to Lake Audy don't have many road signs and we stopped a man in a pickup truck to make sure we were on the right road. We found out that we should have gone straight instead of making the last turn the GPS told us to make.

We followed his directions and found the entrance to the park with no problem. We were happy to see that the campsites we hope to get were vacant. After looking around the campground for a while, we went back to Wasagaming. Once back here we got with Al and Symphony and made plans for an early departure tomorrow morning.