I'll be honest with you, nothing exciting happened on the drive. We just drove through mini hills and grasslands. It's the prairies, what do you expect? The real excitement happened that evening...
Brandon had the most humidity of all our stops so far. After parking the Buggie (RV's nickname, because she collects so many bugs on the windshield each day) we stepped outside into a bathroom after a hot shower, expect with mosquitoes landing on you every two seconds, lets just say I didn't stay outside long.
After dinner mum and Bob headed off on a bike ride to find some caches, well I stayed comfortably inside the air conditioned Buggie with my netflix television show and beer (no, I'm not telling you what I watched, much to embarrassing). I was so focused on my show, I didn't hear the faint sounds of thunder rolling in outside, no cracks of lightening, nothing but sips of beer and the excitement of my show.
Mum and Bob zipped in the door, as fast as possible to avoid any bloody-buzzing-biting-bugs, "Gabe, a storms coming in!" they announced excitedly. I just thought it was a little rain, maybe some wind, but no. It's lightening. We decided to have our evening showers before the storm got to exciting, and after debating whether to drive Jeepy the one hundred or so metres to the showers, we ended up walking :( (the bugs were REALLY bad here). A few to many bug slaps, a quick shower to cool off, and a walk back through mosquito land, we were back to Buggie in time for a light show.
To us west coasters, the lightening storm was thrilling. We sat at the front of Buggie, with snacks and everything. Flash! Flash! Crack! Boom! Flash! You know when a small child is being silly and flickering the light switch on and off repeatedly? Imagine that going on for over an hour, expect it's not the lest bit annoying, just really spectacular. Now add on the sound effects and you got yourself an exciting evening. Who knew my television show would end up to be the dull side of my night?
I woke up early the next morning to the sounds of birds chirping, and stillness, it was both peaceful and disappointing, the thrill of last night was over.
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My attempt of photographing some lightening, taken through the window around 10:30pm.
After the excitement in Brandon, I'm sure the next few days will seem dull, but who knows...
Day five from Brandon, to Kenora, ON.
On the way to Kenora, we made a stop in Winnipeg at the Canadian Mint, the tour was actually rather exciting. We all held a nearly $500,000 in 999.9% pure gold bar, learned a little about the change in our pockets, and saw just how many coins from around the world are made right there in Winnipeg.
It weighted about 24 pounds.
Around the time we entered Ontario, (either before or just after) we passed the vertical halfway of Canada; based on longitudinal degrees.
In Kenora, ON we set up Buggie in a camp site parking lot, it was their 'overflow' spot. Mum and I rode around the town that night, and relaxed after a long day of driving (it was actually one of our shorter distances driven that day, but we made more stops so it felt much longer). Perogies for dinner, and some relaxing television before bed made for a nice evening.
ETR. Unknown.
Gabe.
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