Blogs from Morden, Manitoba, Canada, North America

Cause there’s no road that aint a hard road to travel on... The first leg of the trip is complete! I spent two days on the TransCanada and I am now in sunny southern Manitoba. I am sitting at a picnic table in the baking hot sun beside my campervan (home), watching Moxie sleep in the shade and realized I should post an update. The road-trip out here was, to use my most favorite word, fantastic. We had blue skies across three provinces and my van travelled so smoothly both Mox and I thoroughly enjoyed the drive. She fits so perfectly in there!! In Saskatchewan we pulled over to take pictures in a beautiful sunflower field and somewhere about an hour east of Regina, Moxie and I watched the stars come out, parked for the night ... read more

To Morden & DQ via Highway 3 Sunday, 22 July 2007 There was apparently a heavy rainstorm last night, but I certainly didn’t hear it. The only indication by the time Panna & I went outside this morning was a huge puddle at one end of the parking lot which had not been there yesterday. It was so big that there was a solitary duck swimming & splashing in it. (But do you think Miss Panna was interested in it - no, she was looking for prairie dogs!) But even with the rain, it was already getting really warm & humid by the time we left for La Riviere, from where I planned to cycle towards the east into Morden. The only problem with that itinerary was a huge hill which I’d have had to climb ... read more