Dnes sme opustili vyprahlé kanadské badlands, Transkanadskú diaľnicu č.1 a aj posledné zvyšky prérie. Veľmi rýchlo sa chladné zamračené ráno zmenilo na horúci deň s modrou oblohou. Opúšťajúc diaľnici, v mestečku Dunmore, zažili sme menší šok, po pár dňoch vo vysušenej prérii tu zrazu všetci mali okolo domov sýto zelené trávniky, zavlažovanie veselo míňalo hektolitre vody len aby sa niekto potom mohol preháňať po trávniku s kosačkou a nasekanú trávu vyhodiť. Za Dunmore sme vliezli do ďalšej zapolenej agrikultúrnej púšte, sledujúc lesklý asfalt “diaľnice“ č. 3. Kúpili sme si zmrzlinu od miestnej verzie Amish-ov, boli fakt podivný. Navečer sa nekonečné planiny trochu zvlnili, polia na chvíľu vystriedali pasienky, raz sme dokonca videli bizóny. Posledný zjazd do Bow Islandu už bol za tmy, pozorovali sme farmárov ako sa za hviezdnatej noci preháňajú po poliach s kombajnmi.
Cloudy morning, no drinking water in Walsh, this was our last day on Hwy #1 and also last day in the prairie. Very soon was sunny & hot again and in Dunmore we left dry badlands for good. It was shock, a little bit, because everything before Dunmore was dry, yellowish, brownish but then we passed through this town with huge bright green lawns, sprinklers wasting water around tiny houses with big backyards with nothing else than grass... Now we were in the very intensive agriculture land following Hwy #3, farm fields were even more endless than in North Dakota, getting water from vast network of St. Mary River irrigation canals. It was still very hot so we bought ice cream in the restaurant own by strange local religion group (we forgot their name), they were really strange... In the evening plains changed a little to huge waves/hills, after each hill I expected that we have to see Rocky Mountains, but still no luck. Last hill before Bow Island we saw pasture with buffaloes, than the sun hid underground and we rode our last downhill in the dark watching farmers harvesting their crop under stellated sky.
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