Day 4 : Sask. to Manitoba

Judy and I stayed overnight at my brother Gene's place. We had a bar-b-q steak supper that was great! This morning we got up about 08:00. Gene and Joanne had left for work. I took the bike for a bath and we did a bit of laundry and then re-packed and left quite a bit of stuff behind. We were carrying too much spare clothes. Now things fit in the saddle bags. We didn't get on the road till 13:00. When we left it was very windy from the northwest. We travelled east on #13 to the Manitoba border it
becomes #2.

This highway is the Redcoat Trail. If only we could see the past.
We stopped in Redvers, Sask. for a coffee and a piece of Saskatoon pie. I just had a SMALL taste of Judy's. After that the wind died down so now we will stop for Saskatoon pie if the weather turns nasty.Our next stop was Souris MB where we got gas and then walked across Canada's longest pedestrian suspension bridge. Of course Judy had to get it swinging and scare the Crap out of a lady that was trying to cross it.
I'm a BRAT.
We toured the historic house/museum/butterfly collection adjacent to the bridge in Souris and then headed east again.










The next stop was Glenboro which is just south of a real desert in the prairies with sand dunes etc. We didn't go to see it...We wanted to get to Winnipeg .
We did make a quick stop at Holland MB for a photo-op.
We got to Winnipeg just before 19:00 ( MST) and took the Perimeter road to #1 east. We decided not to try for Kenora Ont. which was another 2 hours away. We headed south on #12 to Steinbach where we got a room with wireless internet and then went and had supper. The ride was great after the wind quit...nice road, no traffic, interesting scenery. Off to Ontario tomorrow.