I pushed it through close to 400 miles yesterday and was way too tired to write last night, where I crashed in the outskirts of Winnepeg. There are trees here, but mostly it's still vast flat fields. Pretty enough, but I'm feeling the call of the north woods and the great lakes.
At 3/4 of a million people, Winnepeg is by far the largest town I'll go through on this trip. It's large enough to have a freeway bypass around it, which I took last night, but now I'm about to delve deep into the city anyway to find Cabela's and a new, hopefully very cushy, camping mattress.
There is a bit of color just starting in the trees here, cottonwoods starting to yellow.
I enjoyed my day off in Regina, riding a segment of the trans-canada trail through town. The trail circumnavigates a pretty little lake right in the middle of town, and then follows a meandering creek 6 miles or so to the outskirts of town. I had to slalom around 4000+ runners of the Queen City marathon (not the only biker to do so, and runners seemed OK with it), and was so happy that I'd finally installed the bell that Gerry bought me a while back.
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| Regina frog |
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| Capitol building across lake in regina |
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| Me at Regina capitol bldg |
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| WTF? This I find sorta creepy. But interesting....? |
Regina overall seems to be a very nice town, with a living downtown area and beautiful tree-lined residential streets that I could happily spend another day exploring.
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