Saskatchewan and beyond.....

Crossing the boundary into Saskatchewan and you are definitely in prairie country. The roads really do stretch for as far as you can see which i think is about 20 miles? At one point we spotted a frieght train about 5 miles away running parallel to the road, it was so long we couldn't see the end of it, had to be half a mile long! Imagine that pulling into Truro station? We stopped at Moose Jaw which is a proper cowboy/railroad/cattle station type town but cleaned up a bit. Back in the roaring twenties Al Capone, the wealthiest gangster in north America holed up here as things were getting hot in Chicago. From Moose Jaw he sent tons of grain by rail down to Chicago to brew his illicit whisky earning him over $100,000,000  per year, that was in the 1920s! He had a series of tunnels dug under the streets from the buildings he owned in case he needed to flee, although the police chief, who incidentally owned a very big house and a cattle ranch nearby, never seemed to be able to catch Mr Capone. The buildings remain as a "Live museum" to tell the tale, very entertaining afternoon in the cool tunnels and hidden cellars below a very hot Main Street. Might stop here a few more days to explore the very posh pool & spa on the 4th floor of the hotel & casino.(Huge pool and jacuzzi on the 4th floor!)