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We left Saskatoon 10am Tuesday and met Tom's friend Joe Josza for lunch in Regina before heading to Jim and Judy Rogers for the rest of the day and January 7. After a lovely dinner and visit we watched 3 episodes of Marco Polo on NETFLIX. Tuesday we watched the remaining episodes of Marco Polo and took Jim and Judy to lunch at Earls.
Tuesday for we traveled to Qu'Appelle to visit Bruce and Cathy Farrer. We had not been familiar and were pleased to learn of the Farrer-Whiting involvement in the Vernon-Qu'Appelle communities for the last century. Bruce is an organist, fellow genealogist and historian, teacher and recently famous for his high school project where he had the students write a letter to themselves 10 years in the future. Then ten years later he returns the letters. The project drawn interest from local, national and international media. Bruce is also the custodian of the records of Vernon Anglican Church, well known to the Rogers and Mattick ancestors. Tom was able to photograph pages with details on several ancestors who were baptized, married, and buried at Vernon Anglican Church. And many stories of the Qu'Appelle-Vernon ancestors were exchanged. Tom and Bruce will try to continue the contacts and exchanges of information.
Wednesday we were up early at 5:30am and away by 7:30. It was still dark. The winds were 30-70km/hr and there had been a few cms of snow over the night, so the 1+ hrs straight South on Hwy 6 we the most difficult of the day with some brief periods of a few seconds of near whiteout. Arriving at the border we handed in our passports and were nearly turned away. We had forgotten to sign them when we had them renewed in 2012. We also had a lime and an orange which were confiscated, but not the fresh carrots and the home made onion-mayo-honey-ketchup-curry vegetable dip.
After entering the USA we found that the Bell Mobility travel plan we had purchased for 70 for 30 days did not work. We continued South on US hwy 16 to Plentywood, pop 1900, where we stopped bought gasoline for US$2.47 and stopped for toast and coffee and wifi service. We called Bell about our not working US travel package, and had them set it up, which they did not succeed in doing. they had us reboot our phone to get the Travel package to work, but the reboot did not work. We traveled all the way to Gillette Wyoming, 800 kms before succeeding in getting the US travel package to work. We rebooted the phone again at the hotel and as we were talking to Bell the phone started to work.
Tuesday for we traveled to Qu'Appelle to visit Bruce and Cathy Farrer. We had not been familiar and were pleased to learn of the Farrer-Whiting involvement in the Vernon-Qu'Appelle communities for the last century. Bruce is an organist, fellow genealogist and historian, teacher and recently famous for his high school project where he had the students write a letter to themselves 10 years in the future. Then ten years later he returns the letters. The project drawn interest from local, national and international media. Bruce is also the custodian of the records of Vernon Anglican Church, well known to the Rogers and Mattick ancestors. Tom was able to photograph pages with details on several ancestors who were baptized, married, and buried at Vernon Anglican Church. And many stories of the Qu'Appelle-Vernon ancestors were exchanged. Tom and Bruce will try to continue the contacts and exchanges of information.
Wednesday we were up early at 5:30am and away by 7:30. It was still dark. The winds were 30-70km/hr and there had been a few cms of snow over the night, so the 1+ hrs straight South on Hwy 6 we the most difficult of the day with some brief periods of a few seconds of near whiteout. Arriving at the border we handed in our passports and were nearly turned away. We had forgotten to sign them when we had them renewed in 2012. We also had a lime and an orange which were confiscated, but not the fresh carrots and the home made onion-mayo-honey-ketchup-curry vegetable dip.
After entering the USA we found that the Bell Mobility travel plan we had purchased for 70 for 30 days did not work. We continued South on US hwy 16 to Plentywood, pop 1900, where we stopped bought gasoline for US$2.47 and stopped for toast and coffee and wifi service. We called Bell about our not working US travel package, and had them set it up, which they did not succeed in doing. they had us reboot our phone to get the Travel package to work, but the reboot did not work. We traveled all the way to Gillette Wyoming, 800 kms before succeeding in getting the US travel package to work. We rebooted the phone again at the hotel and as we were talking to Bell the phone started to work.
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