Tour de Flat Revisited

I've been cranking out 60-80 mile days consistently since my last day off in Waterton National Park back in southern Alberta. The riding is pretty easy and I'm feeling good and strong. No, my super duper German tire isn't letting me down, however, Saskatchewan became flat about half way across and Manitoba is looking the same though there are a few very slight rises, I couldn't call them hills, every once in a while. It is pretty with the different colored crops (yellow canola, blue flax, and green wheat) but it does get tedious a bit.


I rode a fantastic tailwind coming off a storm yesterday afternoon. I got to a town with a nice shelter right before it hit so I stayed nice and dry.


The people are amazingly friendly, however, and everyone seems to want to talk to me. I saw the world's biggest Mountie yesterday in Redvers.


There is an oil boom going both in southern Saskatchewan and Manitoba, from the same oil field that is giving North Dakota it's boom. There are oil workers in the town campsites and lots of oil jacks and drilling rigs in the fields.


I think the locals are a bit overwhelmed that their very quiet, sparsely populated province is all of a sudden growing very quickly.

I crossed into Manitoba today.


Today is my last full day in Canada for a while. Tomorrow, I'll cross back into North Dakota and head east again through Minnesota. If I'm on schedule, I'll cross back into Ontario and ride north of Lake Superior through Thunder Bay and down to Sault St. Marie. From there, I hope to be able to make it to Toronto to catch a flight home. I obviously won't make the east coast but I already have my ride planned for next summer. I'll fly back to Toronto and continue east through Quebec to the Maritime Provinces and then swing down the coast of Maine.
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Location:Manitoba, Canada