{"id":416,"date":"2015-06-19T11:51:17","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T15:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelhorserover.com\/?p=416"},"modified":"2015-06-19T11:51:17","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T15:51:17","slug":"day-14-june-14-maidstone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelhorserover.com\/?p=416","title":{"rendered":"Day 14 (June 14): Maidstone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saskatoon, SK &#8211; Maidstone, SK<br \/>\n4,592 km<\/p>\n<p>Short ride today given rain and high winds blowing across the prairies &#8212; and the fact that there&#8217;s a campground here.<\/p>\n<p>Look up prairie town in dictionary, and I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ll find a reference that says something like, &#8220;See Maidstone.&#8221; It&#8217;s a dusty place (the dozen or so streets are mostly paved with dirt) with an RCMP outpost and two restaurants to choose from: Sue and Lou&#8217;s; or Cindy&#8217;s (I had dinner at Sue + Lou&#8217;s and brunch (ginormous omlettes!) the next day at Cindy&#8217;s; and can vouch for the great tasting food and excellent service in both).<\/p>\n<p>Jonie Mitchell live here for a bit as a kid. There&#8217;s a railway museum. Ummm&#8230; that&#8217;s about it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d be remiss is I didn&#8217;t comment on the campground. Carole, who maintains the facility keeps it impecable. In fact, the &#8220;campground&#8221; is a manicured park; and I felt badly about having to stick tent pegs into it. Carole is cool. When I tell her I&#8217;m on my way to Alaska, she&#8217;s unimpressed. &#8220;Alaska! Alaska!&#8221; she laughs. &#8220;Everyone who comes through here is going to Alaska. What is it with you guys? What&#8217;s up there?&#8221; I don&#8217;t know, Carole. But I&#8217;m going to find out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saskatoon, SK &#8211; Maidstone, SK 4,592 km Short ride today given rain and high winds blowing across the prairies &#8212; and the fact that there&#8217;s a campground here. Look up prairie town in dictionary, and I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ll find a reference that says something like, &#8220;See Maidstone.&#8221; It&#8217;s a dusty place (the dozen or so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelhorserover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelhorserover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelhorserover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelhorserover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelhorserover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steelhorserover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":417,"href":"https:\/\/steelhorserover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions\/417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelhorserover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelhorserover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelhorserover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}