KANSAS CITY

Wednesday 23rd October
 We picked up trailer for Calgary at 4pm, it meant working until about 10, but hopefully we would get a job back down south.  Even though it was sunny it was so cold. We left Saskatoonon on H7, we had a couple of hours of light left.

Monday 28th
The last few days we'd had another trip to Columbus, Nebraska.  Now it was Kansas City, a place called Marshall.  We travelled down past Omaha on I29.

Tuesday 29th
We passed through Kansas City but could'nt see much due to heavy rain.  They seemed to like their fireworks down here, everywhere along the interstate were warehouses and supermarkets selling them with hugh adverts on the billboards.  It was only two days to haloween and it was constantly on the radio, it was such a big thing here, loads of stuff in the shops and everyone talking about their costumes, mainly the adults!Walmart had huge pumpkins for sale outside, you could only fit one in a trolley! The trailer was loaded in the afternoon with pork, we made our way back up on I29.

Wednesday 30th
Two days of rain, on our right near St Joseph we could see an electric storm, it was still dark and the lightening lit up the sky every second.  We did'nt see much of Kansas City again, thick fog all the way up I29 to Fargo.  Snow on the ground just past Watertown.  Amongst the traffic a huge deer jumped over the central reservation and ran infront of our truck, then just started grazing! We fueled up at Fargo and then headed into North Dakota on I94 as far as Jamestown.

Thursday 31st
At last the sun, we had'nt seen it for a while, the last two days had been a blur of rain, fog and headlights.  The last stretch up through North Dakota on H281 towards the border at Portal, Saskaatchewan. Hundreds of geese were sat resting in the fields.  Some of the lakes had started to freeze.  At Carrington we turned onto H52 towards Minot where we would refuel. The delivery was in Calgary early tomorrow morning.  We were then going to the Rockies for a couple of days, staying in Canmore and visiting Banff. We were going to suss out the activities for the kids in january ie Skiing, dog sledging and snowmobiles.