Manitoba and North Dakota

Got off to a late start, pulling out of camp after lunch heading to the International Peace Gardens at the border of Manitoba and North Dakota (just south of Brandon, Manitoba). We missed the entrance to I.P.G. which is actually between each border crossing. The way I read the website I thought we had to cross the U.S. customs border and then there would be an entrance to the peace gardens. So we stopped and declared our "duty-free" purchases, answered all the questions, showed our passports and let them search the motorhome and THEN we were told we missed the entrance and had to make a u-turn to get to it. It was worth it though. Beautiful flowers even this late in the season.

We knew we didn't have time this late in the day to walk the garden grounds and would save that for the next day.  I've inserted a few pictures of the Peace Gardens that I took the next day.

We spent the night at the campground there. Although they have several sites available we were surprised it was not very busy for the start of the long weekend with only 10 campers in the entire place. Needless to say it was EXTREMELY peaceful!!! Every now and then you could hear the faint ringing of the chimes from the Bell Tower.

We enjoyed our first campsite fire of the year since we left Triple Diamond in the spring. It was so nice. The firewood was free. Teddi certainly enjoyed it -- just like old times.