Road Warriors

I’m home. I did have internet access while I was in Montana, but between the challenge of typing blog posts on a Libretto 70CT (with a keyboard that’s 8″ wide) and general disconnectness from the news world, I didn’t get much blogging done.

We finished up at the show around noon Sunday (successfully) and hit the road right away. It’s about 5 hours from Helena to the border crossing north of Malta. On the way through Harlem, I tossed around the idea of heading north for the port of Climax, but the roads on the Saskatchewan side being what they are, chose to go further east to Malta and cross south of Swift Current. There was plenty of time.

What we didn’t know was that on Sept.15 the border crossing moved to “winter hours”. We fueled up in Malta, and turned north. Then, a few miles along, a sign informed us the border now closed at 6 pm. We had 35 minutes to cover 45 miles. And had the clock in the van not been 3 minutes slow, we’d have made it.

This is what the Port of Monchy looks like at 6:03 pm. From the American side.

And this is the border to the east of the crossing, viewed out the passenger window…. hmmmmm…..

It’s probably a good thing we didn’t have wire cutters.