Another great day bicycling on the Prairies with favourable wind conditions! We feel so fortunate about this outcome! We've also enjoyed the recent three days of fantastic Saskatchewan shoulders, as we've been able to ride close enough to chat - its been such a great trip and we are going to miss each other when we are back to our work weeks. B had us up again at 5:30am this morning and we were bicycling before 7:00am to be on our way before the winds changed. Today was a particularly fun day, as we visited three little towns en route from Whitewood and we saw more murals, spoke with locals and visited the Wolseley Swinging Bridge. We had to cycle down to see the bridge, as several people we met told us we must. The bridge was built in 1902 to connect the town to a residential area. Currently, the facility that looks out to the river and bridge is a care home - such a great outlook for the folks there! Also in Wolseley, we visited a quilt shop and made purchases, and Y had a nice latte at Tilli-Beans. Only one more sleep and one more ride day, 75Kms to the Regina airport. B found a very cute 2BR Sunshine cabin (really, a small house) in Indian Head for our last night. Two of the people with whom we spoke in Grenfell late this morning told us the China Garden food in Indian Head is very good. We were set on going there for dinner, as most of the motel and diner owners we have encountered in Manitoba and Saskatchewan have been of Chinese descent (China Garden buffet included the v.best ever SGB) They offered a special dessert, which we dubbed "schmelows", a toothpick skewered marshmallow, tuxedo dipped in chocolate and rolled in graham cracker crumbs!
Home stretch!
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