Single-handedly solving nothing
In last week’s post, I wrote about our detour to the Great Sand Hills during a camping trip through southwest Saskatchewan. Facilitating this detour required an overnight stay in an area of the province that’s not exactly brimming with accommodation options. Campgrounds are limited to small, community/club run operations in equally small, rural towns. While … Read more
If you spend a lot of time researching interesting destinations for camping trips, you’re bound to stumble upon a curiosity that gets lodged in the back of your mind seemingly forever. A place that, on its own, doesn’t quite justify a stand-alone trip, but if you’re passing through the neighbourhood is worth checking out. For … Read more
They may not have heard of Grasslands National Park and they may have reflexively cringed at the utterance of Pike Lake Provincial Park but there’s not a Saskatchewanian who doesn’t know Waskesiu and they unabashedly love the place. Now that I too have visited this mythical vacationland in Prince Alberta National Park I fully understand, … Read more
It’s never a good sign when your friends from the area respond to the revelation of where you’re camping with scrunched up faces and incredulous declarations that, “Nobody goes to Pike Lake!” That’s not a particularly ringing endorsement even if it was uttered at least partly in jest. This reaction weighed on my mind as … Read more
It is odd, though so very true, that we are often ignorant of that which is nearest us. I grew up in a small tourist town in which the downtown is filled with small shops selling knickknacks and wares to busloads of tourists. A great many people from all over Ontario and even Canada have … Read more