When I left at 9 am this morning it was already 18C with a big blue sky. The winds were relatively light and were generally helpful for the first 30 km as I took the Winnipeg Perimeter Road towards highway 75 south. This was really my first major departure from the Transcanada highway since leaving Hope BC. We won't be on it again until somewhere in the Maritime provinces. Highway 75 zigzags toward the US board so the predominately west winds sometimes helped and sometimes hindered.
Along the Perimeter Road, I saw a pretty amazing place called Adrenaline Adventures. Looks like it could be a lot of fun.
I met up with Rochelle in the town of Morris where we had lunch and I rested a bit. I was really hot and tired. VanGo was quite hot inside as well so by the time I got out, it was really cooler to be riding than sitting around. The winds started to die down and were generally tail winds so the additional 42 km to Emerson went by fairly easily. The shoulders were really good on highway 75 so I had a smooth ride with my freshly tuned up bicycle. I got into the campsite at about 5pm after 133 km of riding.
I saw a large wind farm a few kilometres before Emerson.
Tomorrow we cross the border into North Dakoda and head towards Grand Forks. That is another day of over 130 km. There is a prediction of thunderstorms and high winds so maybe it won't be quite so far. There seems to be a communications dead zone between the border and just north of Grand Forks so we will have to resort to old fashion methods of keeping in touch. Mostly by not getting that far from each other.