No Kms Sunday;
107Kms Monday
Sunday was a day of bike care for B and administrative work for Y in Swift Current, Saskatchewan as a storm passed. B also made our annual bear spray purchase at Canadian Tire and did the laundry. By Monday morning we were like new again, which we somewhat doubted after our relatively short ride of 50Kms into the wind on Saturday! Monday was a fantastic, gorgeous day with the wind swishing us like a feather to Piapot from Swift Current. The Canadian flags we passed along the route were all with us today!
We made time for a few more photos of the beautiful Saskatchewan landscape in blue, green, gold and white. The roadside was quite littered with unfortunate animals and often in clusters which made us think the hawk was after the field voles/gophers that were also being sought by the coyote, and then, *w*h*a*m*, lights out for all three. We also saw lots of birds and a few antelope (called pronghorn here). Y has also, since Regina, being seeing daily banana peel data (and one orange peel). So far, since leaving St. John's Newfoundland, she has seen at least one banana peel a day, with many on most days.
Late in the day, we met Kane Mercer who is from Victoria riding East in memory of his father Rand
(Ride for Rand) and we let Kane know we had seen another trio decked out for a long haul East, and that he might catch up with them, as it sounded as if he was doing long distance days.
We arrived at the
Piapot Saloon and Guesthouse (both closed, but still with off sales) and were met by the cheery owner
Glenn Bonnet. He let us into the hotel and said that it was more like staying at his house and he would make breakfast for us, as there are no services in Piapot. We are in a cute, western theme room and can feel the train when it goes by - this reminds us a bit of the Wells hotel and we feel comfortable here.
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