I finally got my sunflowers photograph this year on our summer holiday driving trip from Vancouver to Winnipeg. This field is on the way to Stonewall, MB.
Being somewhat of a geek for all things mechanical, I had to include a shot of this wind turbine blade being transported on the highway.
However, I can't take credit for the photo; I got it from the internet. Both times I saw a blade being transported, one in Montana and the other in North Dakota, I was driving, and the trucks were headed in the opposite direction. It's not really recommended to take a photo while driving, but I tried anyway. All I got was a shot of my windshield pillar. So thanks to whoever took this shot. It's rather awe-inspiring to see something this big traveling down the highway. That's an extra-long trailer, and the blade still hangs way off the end. I estimated the blade to be about 3 times as long as the average semi-trailer rig you'd see in BC.
Have you ever had to pull over on the highway for a house to pass? Things really are scaled up a notch on the prairies. I mean, you just can't make this stuff up.
I really like the sponteneity of road trips. We were headed East on Route 2 through Montana, and upon reviewing the map before getting in the car one morning we discovered that there were several options for us in veering North towards Manitoba. One of those options would take us through a small town called Rugby, North Dakota, which happens to be the exact geographical center of North America. Having been to Cape Spear, Newfoundland, a couple of years ago, the most Easterly point of this continent, going to Rugby was a no-brainer.
How does one determine the exact center of a continent anyway?
All we have left now is to visit Anchor Point, Alaska. It's listed on Wikipedia as the "Westernmost point on the continuous road system on the North American Continent".
But on a more Canadian focus we'd probably first check out Mount St. Elias, Yukon. It's listed as the most Westerly point in Canada.
We may already have our summer road trip planned for next summer.
