We woke up in the night very cold, and had to close the flaps of the tent. However, I could not get back to sleep after that and tossed and turned until 5:30am.
The mornings here are really beautiful, with the birds singing and the shades of light at dawn…… So up we got and started to break camp and have breakfast at the same time. Believe it or not it is now organized chaos and things happen in a very orderly way. We were on the road about 6:45am. Cool, fresh, blue, gold, smooth road, whine of tires, crickets jumping up in front of the bike and hitting me with surprising force,
long periods of solitary occupation of the road, train horn repeating in the distance, coming closer and passing us with a wave from the driver, the smell of canola, a field of purple, a lone cow in a large field, a sore butt, were some items from a world of impressions.
We stopped for lunch along the way leaning the bike against a sign post, cheese and tomato sandwiches, apple and cold water, only 28 km to go.
First impressions of Assiniboia are not pleasant, it is dusty and busy, and industrial, but as you enter the town it changes and except for the beer being expensive, it has a certain charm. After much dithering about, we chose the New Moon café for lunch, Chinese, my Ginger beef was good, Marge took the Smorg.
We took a room at the Franklin Motel and met two American Bikers, Betty and Mark from California. Leo, one of the boys last night, had mentioned them. As soon as we started talking an official car pulled to a stop and the officer got out purposefully and said to Betty that she was being ticketed for wearing a helmet.
It turns out the locality has a positive ticket and if the officer sees something good he/she hands out a ticket. In this case Betty became the recipient of a Tote bag.
That’s all the news that’s fit to Blog, or that you can stand I’m sure. Another successful day on the Grand Tour.
Please remember JDRF, and give if you can.
Average 22.1kph
Days Climb 150m
Days Distance 78km
Total Distance 4022km
Positive ticketing..I like it!
ReplyDeleteThe pool's good and your raspberries are delicious!
Safe Cycling, maybe you'll get tickets for helmet wearing:-)
Love and hugs
Hi Sir ront and Lady M , glad to know you are doing fine and not suffering from heat exhaustion any more!!! All well on the home front your garden is well looked after by the new horticulture team Ann , Dot and yours truly. Ride safe , and enjoy. Love you, Sandra
ReplyDeleteWe are truly blessed! thanks to everyone.
ReplyDeleteronandmarge