Walmart

One of the difficulties  traveling later in the season is that many of the the campgrounds close mid-September. Of course we assumed otherwise and earlier in the day when we looked at the map and calculated the length of our drive, we decided to stay in a campground near Regina, Saskatchewan. Two were listed and as it turned out, two were closed. Our waitress at a local Boston pizza suggested Walmart :( and our unfamiliarity with the area at 10:00 pm left us with few options.

To save traveling several hundred miles in travel, we dropped into North Dakota for a couple days. A pleasant surprise was that there are beautiful state parks along the way, and Tucker and I are enjoying the release from the car in one of them.

Tucker enjoyed a lunch stop at a lake the following day, especially because he got the salmon skin.

Although Tucker had an appetite, he was not feeling well. Later that evening, his respiration was so rapid we thought we would need to visit an emergency pet hospital. Fortunately, he improved a few hours later but it took several days for him to get back to his bad dog behavior-and we welcomed it.