{"id":30,"date":"2015-06-05T21:48:24","date_gmt":"2015-06-06T01:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wigginsworld.net\/?p=30"},"modified":"2020-11-06T20:05:33","modified_gmt":"2020-11-07T01:05:33","slug":"the-long-commute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wigginsworld.net\/?p=30","title":{"rendered":"The long commute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a long road &#8212; more than 2400 miles so far. We&#8217;re parked in a large, and crowded, camp west of Edmonton, AB. Tomorrow, we get to the start of the trip&#8211;the beginning of the Alaska Highway.<\/p>\n<p>From Wisconsin, we drove across Minnesota, stopping in Fargo, ND to see some old friends from NJ. Who knew we knew people in Fargo, ND?<\/p>\n<p>We camped in a city park on the banks of the Red River, one of the few rivers in North America that flows north. The bank was a little closer to the rig than designed &#8212; the river was in flood stage.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_31\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wigginsworld.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/b-2015_06_01_Fargo_002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-31\" src=\"http:\/\/wigginsworld.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/b-2015_06_01_Fargo_002-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wigginsworld.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/b-2015_06_01_Fargo_002-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wigginsworld.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/b-2015_06_01_Fargo_002.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">By the banks of the Red River<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The next day it was on to Portage la Prairie, Canadian seat of the Bell clan. But apparently none still in residence. Or at least we couldn&#8217;t find any.<\/p>\n<p>From Fargo to Regina (Saskatchewan), the country was mostly dead flat.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wigginsworld.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/b-2015_06_05_regina-to-Edmonton_001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-33\" src=\"http:\/\/wigginsworld.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/b-2015_06_05_regina-to-Edmonton_001-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wigginsworld.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/b-2015_06_05_regina-to-Edmonton_001-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wigginsworld.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/b-2015_06_05_regina-to-Edmonton_001-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_32\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wigginsworld.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/b-2015_06_05_regina-to-Edmonton_007.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-32\" src=\"http:\/\/wigginsworld.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/b-2015_06_05_regina-to-Edmonton_007-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wigginsworld.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/b-2015_06_05_regina-to-Edmonton_007-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wigginsworld.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/b-2015_06_05_regina-to-Edmonton_007.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-32\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">North of Regina, the terrain gets more varied.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_34\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wigginsworld.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/b-2015_06_05_regina-to-Edmonton_021.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-34\" src=\"http:\/\/wigginsworld.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/b-2015_06_05_regina-to-Edmonton_021-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wigginsworld.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/b-2015_06_05_regina-to-Edmonton_021-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wigginsworld.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/b-2015_06_05_regina-to-Edmonton_021.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-34\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A road selfie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a long road &#8212; more than 2400 miles so far. We&#8217;re parked in a large, and crowded, camp west of Edmonton, AB. Tomorrow, we get to the start of the trip&#8211;the beginning of the Alaska Highway. From Wisconsin, we drove across Minnesota, stopping in Fargo, ND to see some old friends from NJ. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wigginsworld.net\/?p=30\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The long commute<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wigginsworld.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wigginsworld.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wigginsworld.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wigginsworld.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wigginsworld.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wigginsworld.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36,"href":"https:\/\/wigginsworld.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wigginsworld.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wigginsworld.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wigginsworld.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}