The Great Canadian Tour 2025 - Elbows Up Edition - Day 30

Another day, another province.  After yesterday’s final arrival in the midst of wind and lightning, the evening turned out to be quite beautiful, for the most part.   We changed our clothes and walked down to a local restaurant for supper.  The walk was about 15 minutes which was perfect.  The weather changed, however, when we were leaving, so we called a cab for the ride back to the hotel.  A few hours later, the rain cleared and we were able to witness a beautiful sunset that completed the day.

We left early this morning looking forward to a less eventful weather day, the sun was out with but a few clouds in the sky.  We were still following the storm that we caught up to the previous night but we knew that it had a great head start so it should be a dry, relatively comfortable temperature all day….well Mother Nature had other plans.  Less than 15 minutes after leaving we ran into fog.  Yes fog….on the prairie!  There are a fair number of lakes in Saskatchewan and that combined with the weather system produced fog for the next 100 kms.

Despite this it was a great ride.  Other than the usual stops for breaks and lunch, we only made two other stops.  One was to get Jerry’s picture with “Welcome to Manitoba” as we did not locate a sign on our journey west.  The second was to a sodium sulfate deposit in Chaplin Lake.

We did not hit any other weather, arriving in Virden, despite all of the weather warnings that started to appear.  Looking at the forecast, we may not be so lucky in our travels tomorrow.  Now we watch not only the weather, but the air quality warnings as well.  The bad weather could help with better air quality so I will take that as a trade off.