{"id":748,"date":"2011-08-14T21:48:09","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T04:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nerdhive.org\/glob\/?p=748"},"modified":"2011-08-14T21:48:09","modified_gmt":"2011-08-15T04:48:09","slug":"august-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/?p=748","title":{"rendered":"August 14"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I drove from Swift Current, Saskatchewan<\/a> to Russell, Manitoba<\/a>. \u00a0Despite what people say about Saskatchewan, it was actually a more scenic drive than yesterday’s drive from Calgary to Swift Current. \u00a0That section of Alberta is actually flatter and more desolate than Saskatchewan.<\/p>\n

I had planned to detour to check out the historic\u00a0Claybank brick factory<\/a>, which looked like good camera fodder, but decided against it when I discovered the road leading there was gravel. \u00a0I was willing to invest an hour driving on paved roads to go there, but not two on gravel.<\/p>\n

So I continued on to Russell, taking the shortcut through the Qu’Appelle Valley<\/a> (yes, Saskatchewan does have 3D features). \u00a0Not a whole lot to say about it; another long drive with no real personal significance to me and only short stops to stretch and snack.<\/p>\n

On arrival at Russell I just went straight to the Russell Inn, the only good lodging in town. \u00a0Discovered that they had misunderstood my phone reservation request for a quiet room at the back and instead had me in a noisy room at the front, and that they only had me for one night instead of two because the next day was fully booked. \u00a0Thankfully a back room was available and later on someone cancelled, so I`m in a quiet room for two nights after all.<\/p>\n

Initial impressions: Russell has grown – it now has at least three chain restaurants where before it had none, and the Russell Inn itself is twice as big as it used to be.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow I`ll have a better look around town, then head out to the farm and survey the environs there.<\/p>\n

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Today I drove from Swift Current, Saskatchewan to Russell, Manitoba. \u00a0Despite what people say about Saskatchewan, it was actually a more scenic drive than yesterday’s drive from Calgary to Swift Current. \u00a0That section of Alberta is actually flatter and more desolate than Saskatchewan. I had planned to detour to check out the historic\u00a0Claybank brick factory, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}