Day 23 - Grayson to Binsgarth- 66 Miles.

Today was an easy day really; we had two options, 105miles and 66 miles and an early dip in a pool, no contest really!

The day dawned warm and sunny and after breakfast we headed off all skin on show for the first time and were soon scooting along at 38km/h with a decent tail wind. The land is changing subtly as we move across the prairies and it becoming much more like the UK with smaller farms and similar crops.

I took the opportunity to phone home as I hadn’t had a signal for 24hrs or so and relayed the Sunday lunch menu to Tom who was riding with me, he was suitably jealous, the thought of a roast dinner after the weeks of camp site food generated a great deal of discussion, particularly about Yorkshire Pudding, its amazing what you talk about on the road.

We stopped for a snack after 50km and then headed off again passing one of the world’s biggest pot ash mines along the way. It had a 400ft tall slag heap that looked more like a mountain than a slag heap.

After about 80km we passed into our fourth province, Manitoba; I get the feeling that we are making some progress across the map now. It was quite strange crossing the border as the landscape almost immediately changed into even smaller fields and farms and for some reason the speed limits are all different.

The rest of the ride was pleasant and we cycled through some lovely valleys with beautiful views and hit the campsite at about 12.30 much too early for the truck to have arrived and so we spent a couple of hours chatting and then when it arrived got stuck into getting tents etc up and then settled down for an afternoon beer which won the vote over swimming.

Tomorrow is about 88 miles so should take a little longer, the weather is supposed to be OK for a couple of days but we’ll see.

Onwards and Upwards!