Feeling good

That's gotta be the most impressive recycle station anywhere, let alone that it is in a non-descript little campground east of Regina. They have containers for things I didn't even know you could recycle, not that I'm any kind of authority on recycling. And the old geek that owns the park is out there regularly rooting through the garbage just in case some boor such as myself might have inadvertently (or deliberately) put something in the garbage that we shouldn't have.


It's all bullshit of course but it must make him feel good and no doubt makes many of the fools that religiously sort their garbage feel good too. I'd like to see an honest study of the cost benefit of recycling programs but I doubt that will ever happen. By the time you add up the transportation cost to move all the bulk to the recycling facilities I'd be willing to bet the ledger is negative and that's without accounting for the labour cost to do it all. Of course the eco-terrorists will tell you that it's all about the environment and you therefore can't do a cost benefit analysis but that's recycled alfalfa hay too. There's a huge cost to the environment in terms of fossil fuel consumption to move that crap around.


Foolish recycling tendencies aside, this is a cute place to stay. It's nothing fancy and the sites are pretty cramped but it's reasonably priced and the owners have a good attitude. Regina is getting to be a hard place to stay. When we arrived close to 2 weeks ago King's Acres was full as was Dyer Straits. Life is too short to stay with the assholes at Buffalo Lookout so we didn't phone them. That left this place and they have been more or less full the whole time we were here. Most of the sites are taken up by travelling workers of some description. Our neighbours most of the time we were here were a young couple where the husband described himself as a "millwright". Several of the sites have diesel 1-tons parked in front of them with toolboxes and welders loaded on the back. I think there is a lot of pipeline activity around here now and there likely is oilfield activity as well. We likely would have stayed through the weekend but they told us they have a full house for the weekend so we have to leave. Marilyn left for the mine today - she flies into McLean Lake tomorrow. I'll visit father in the morning and then start wandering west. I've got some lovely salmon to cook for Marlan on Saturday so I'll probably park at the Sask. welcome centre west of Maple Creek tomorrow night.