Goodbye Manitoba!

We packed up and checked out of Gull Harbour Marina and Inn, we really enjoyed our stay here. If not for the mosquitoes, it would have made the perfect vacation! We started our drive to our next campground in Minnesota, stopping by a Tim Holton's in Winnipeg to get coffee, lunch and donuts. We decided that we had enough gas in our minivans to make it through the border and gas up in the US since gas prices there were lower than Canada.

Provincial Trunk Highway 12 in Manitoba led to the town of Sprague and the Canada-US border a few miles south. Not much traffic on the road, and the border crossing was rather quiet, with few buildings or structures. There was just a road sign denoting the border check coming up. I wish I had taken a photo, although I am not sure it that might get me in trouble. I must say that it was nice to go through less busy border crossings, no wait at all. On the US side, the officer checked my passport and asked what type of food stuff I have in the minivan. I started listing food in my portable fridge/freezer and he stopped me at the eggs. Said I could not take eggs into the US. I had to turn around and stopped at the Canadian customs where I was told the US officer had phoned ahead to inform them, but they could not take the eggs from me. My only option was to go back to Canada and find a place to dump them! I asked where the nearest trash can was (surely there must be one close by, I was already low on gas), and he pointed to one across the road, next to a building. I drove over, stopped and threw the carton into the trash can. Continued back to the US customs and this time the officer waved me through.

I stopped at Warroad, the first town over the border,and gassed up. Then met up with my brother to do some grocery shopping (and buy more eggs) as well as fishing bait, before we drove on to our campsite in the Chippewa National Forest, MN. Along the way, we passed by pretty landscape dotted by a lot of lakes which reflected the fact that Minnesota is known as the land of 10,000 lakes.