Cheese omelets

This evening we had cheese omelets - a real departure from our usual dinner of soup. I follow a number of other Airstreamer's blogs and one couple recently entered Canada and reported that poultry and eggs are not allowed in from the U.S. That was a real jolt for us since we have a freezer stuffed with chicken breasts and ground turkey that we use in our soups.

I did my own research on the Canadian government website and learned that raw poultry products are not allowed. A few days ago, while we were still in a campground were we had electricity, we cooked all of the chicken breasts (20) and the ground turkey in the microwave. And tonight we finished the last 6 eggs so that we no longer have any "raw" poultry. We enter Canada tomorrow - I'll let you know how we make out at the border.

Today we travelled through northwestern North Dakota and it was all about oil and gas drilling and boom towns.

The sign reads "Turnkey Work Force Lodging". Row after row of army-barrack-style buildings. We saw this in several places today.

And trucks! Oil tankers and construction trucks are everywhere.

More housing right on the oil fields.

There will often be three or four of these "sippers" pumping away.

Trucks and...

more trucks. And today is Sunday. We think the oil fields are producing 24/7.

There is still some agriculture and each field seems to have its own rock pile in the middle. Maybe not enough to build a fence, but it did remind us of New England.

We stopped at a grocery store in Stanley, a boom town, and outside the store was a place to scrape the mud off oil driller's boots.

Cell towers on many of the hills.

Fields of pipe.