I got the immediate feeling the influence of South Dakota have creept up over the border. Like all places in 2010 it has the developers growth drive on the city outskirts. This of course includes the strip malls, franchaises and box stores so common to most of the US.Moose Jaw was a neat big town or a small sized city. It has a train staton at the end of Main St right at the edge of old downtown.
My first stop was the downtown area to see the murals.
The city trolley tour was over for the season but the tourist centre provided a walking tour map. 
The town displays 50 murals that depict the towns past.
It has not only inspired business to donate this building space but they also have used on their own wall space and added some more commercial but well done murals for commercial use. Everywhere the parking was metered an I was without change except two dimes. As it turns out they welcome travelers from outside their provance and the metered parking is free for visitors. I see this town restoring itself as a pleasant tourist stop. **
The Tunnels of Moose Jaw Kelly Carty is the manager of human resources/cast director as her title. I suspect she does a lot more to keeping this attraction so successful. The month of May is already booked with school children that gain a scense of their own history. She takes care of her staff andcast and has a waiting list for many young people use this as a job while others hone their acting tallent on a new audiance every half hour for a 50 minute inneractive performance. This is a well worth value for the modest entry fee and time involved.Two tours are offered, Al Capone with his tunnel bootleg operations in Moose Jaw and the underground life of Chinease immigrants while Canada had a head tax on them. I selected only the Al Capone inneractive tour and it was perfect. Historic facts were blended and then weaved into inneractive theater style with period costumes and plenty of props of which many were authentic.
I hurried out of town because the lure of home is now competing with life on the road. It would have been well worth spending several unhurried days here. The city also had museums and The Temple Gardens Mineral Spa Resort
The temple gardens and mineral spa..............No more time for this town but a few days would have been nice.RCMP, Royal Canadian Mounted Police have not been in sight in the entire trip until today, I saw one and now believe that they actually are out of their offices. Feeling pressured for time I passed right by the "Sukanen Museum" which is period museum with buildings and layout as an assembly like a town. From what I heard later it is just chuck full of relics, artifacts and other historic things. I kept driving thru lots of coal country, farm fields dotted with oil derricks and even some natural gas stuff. I took pictures of the signage of small of these towns along the way.
I made my entry into the US at North Portal and entered North Dakota. Today I saw hawks, prarie dogs, falcons, cayote and lots and lots of cows. Ranching, grain farming, gas & oilis big throughout the area I traveled today.
My day ended in Rugby North Dakota, where I washed the grasshoppers from the front of my van, had liver & onions for dinner for $6.99 and got a room for $40. I am back to averaging down my food and lodging costs on the trip. The dinner was so good I am looking forward to biscuts & gravey I saw on the breakfast menu.It takes me a bit to get this blog out each day so my early morning departure can only work if I stay up late. I am going to bed early and do the blog in the morning so I am not driving into the east morning sunup.the tunnels of moose jawthe temple gardens and mineral spa
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