I got a reasonably early start of 8:30am. There was a nice tail wind and I wanted to take advantage of it before it changed.
I passed a sodium sulfate salt mining operation near Chaplin, SK. Piles and piles of white salt everywhere derived from Chaplin Lake, the second largest saline body in Canada.
I passed the two women from Montreal, who had left an hour or so before I did, about 60 km out. I hit 90km at about 3 hours. I was really moving. I did start to slow down after that with some slight head winds from time to time but still reached Moose Jaw in about 4 hours (112 km from Morse). Rochelle had just left Morse so I kept going.
About 8km east of Moose Jaw I got a text from Rochelle saying that VanGo was overheating and she had stopped on the side of the highway near Moose Jaw. After some troubleshooting and waiting for cooling, I turned around and rode back to where Rochelle had pulled over.
I had a look at the engine. It would start gushing radiator fluid about 60 seconds after starting it. It looked like a blown hose. Here was a chance to use our newly purchased BCAA membership. Walker's Towing was out there within 10 minutes and had us to a Canadian Tire within a half hour.
I'm writing this in the waiting room of Canadian Tire - our latest mobile "office". They got VanGo in immediately and quickly told us the relatively good news that they thought it was a hose.
Assuming that VanGo is released today, we will camp in a campground on the east side of Moose Jaw. If not, there are a couple of motels close by.
UPDATE: Thanks to Linda and Ryan at Canadian Tire we were in and out within about an hour and on our way. We are now camped out at the Prairie Oasis Campground.
Tomorrow we will head into Regina, about 80 km away. It's is a relatively short day so that maybe we can get some other stuff done during the day.