Friday July 24, 2015

Another good tail-wind day as you can see by the mileage we covered today.

We are in Manitoba already. We passed Elkhorn, where Sheldon Kennedy was from (NHL hockey player).

This is the first time we have seen bilingual signs since arriving in Canada.

Manitoba has more bends on the highway than Saskatchewan, no hills yet and still prairie farming. How much canola can one Province grow. I was expecting fields of waving wheat, but it seems to be all canola.

As the scenery was once again predictable I let my mind wander and it decided to create a beautiful Japanese Garden. It was lovely, a small Japanese maple sat to the right side of the garden with a red rhododendron in front of the maple. There was a small waterfall trickling into a stream, on the left side, complete with moon lantern and stone pagoda. I created a dry river bed – so that Ralf would have something to do raking the sand every morning. I was going to create a Tea Room but decided that was going a bit over board.

We arrived in Virden and settled in to the campsite. A nice older campsite run by the Lions Club. The showers are hot and lots of room to hang your clothes and move around. There is a small covered area which we used because rain showers kept coming through and the campsite only cost $20.00. What did surprise us was the excellent wi-fi here. I was able to update the blog.