What a difference a day makes! Actually just a couple of hours. Last night the wind howled and lightning lit up the sky. One of the trees in the Gull Lake Campground came down over night and they were cutting it up this morning. When I woke up, the wind was still at about 40 km/hr from the east. The weather forecast said that the wind would not abate but would switch to south and then south south west by mid morning. By about 10:30 it had turned around considerably so I headed out. I covered the 56 km distance to Swift Current in less than 2 hours. It was so nice to have a mostly tail wind again.
We ate lunch in Swift Current. Rochelle was going to do some shopping and I headed out to our destination for the day, the town of Herbert, 45 km further down the road. As it turned out, I beat Rochelle to Herbert but unfortunately our planned campground was not really ready for the season so we got on the internet to see what else was ahead. The little town of Morse was only about 15 km further down the road and it seemed to have a municipal campground. Turns out it is a nice, self serve campground with electricity, water, showers, etc for $20/night.
I love these municipal campgrounds that a lot of little towns have. They are cheap and usually very well maintained.
While we were in Herbert, we met another cross country cyclist from Duncan, BC named Dwight. At 4pm he was hoping that the tail winds would take him to Regina tonight. That is another 200 km of riding. I hope he makes it.
About an hour after setting up camp in Morse, a couple of women from Montreal, who are are also cycling across the country, set up camp right next to us.
Tomorrow's goal is Moose Jaw, 114 km east. I'm going to try to get an early start and if all goes well, maybe I'll get a little further.