After yesterday's absolutely crazy tail winds that pushed us to speeds as high as 41 kmh up a hill (this is not an exaggeration, although it also wasn't the norm for hills), today was shortened to a 59 km pedal into Swift Current.
The great thing about being ahead in distance is that you have a lot of time to take pictures and explore. For example, Vanessa and I found an empty truck weigh station at lunch and determined that we weigh 80 kg and 110 kg on our bikes respectively plus or minus 20 pounds.
This evening Vanessa and I have found our way onto the town exhibition grounds where we were instructed we would find a campground. Along with a few campsites, we have also discovered a period piece mennonite village including an old time saloon, which we are camped beside, rodeo corral and a small tea shop which seems to be the only part of the grounds with people in it.
Currently we're the only people on the campground and we're looking forward to an evening of relaxation and taking ridiculously posed pictures in the empty fairgrounds.
Awesome.
Today, I rode further than you did! And, that's not something that I expect to be able to say very often.
ReplyDeleteAt first I thought - OH MY GOD Alex only weighs 30lbs more than Vanessa??? I was picturing you at a whippet-like 125 :) But then I realized we're talking metric - whew!
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