In Thompson MN CA we stayed at the McCreedy Campround along side the Churchill River and a float plane base. Mrs. McCreedy operates the campground and is certainly a very entertaining woman with a lot of stories to tell. Gail spent Monday catching up on laundry and walking around the Thompson towncenter. In the evening we boarded the train for our overnight (and next day!) ride to Churchill on the shores of Hudson Bay. We left our RVs in Mrs. Mcreedy's custody until our return on Friday night the 10th. A word about the train ride. We learned the train is always guaranteed to be late and off the schedule and we certainly learned it is no express. While we had a sleeper compartment, we still had a restless night with the noise and slow moving and swaying of the train all of which is no fault of Canadian Railways. Other than some ocassional sidings, there is a single rail track from Thompson to Churchill which is plus/minus 325 mile long. These tracks are laid over the Trunda and therein is the reason the train schedule is erratic. The tracks are coniually moving around in the soft earth which doesn't provide for high speed rail travel. At times we would slow down to a crawling speed and ocassionally we would have to pull off on a siding and sit for a period of time while a freight train would pass us by. This track is also used to move grain to the shipping port at Churchill where it is sent on to Europe. We arrived in Churchill at 5 PM on Tuesday and procededed to our hotel, The Tundra Inn.
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