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Pit Stop 4

Wednesday, October 04, 2006

Today we were making our way to Winnipeg, Manitoba. We were up at 6am, out to the cars by 7am and then after we had breakfast we were on the road by 8am. According to Map Quest the trip from Thunder Bay to Winnipeg was supposed to take approx. 9 hours. We made it in 8 hours (this time included 1 hour for lunch, and a couple of other short stops for pictures.

The scenery for much of the trip from Thunder Bay to Kenora consisted of Rocky base, trees on top with lakes scattered amongst them. The roads were relatively quiet thus traveling went at a good pace. One of the interesting ‘things’ we passed was the ‘Atlantic Watershed’. It is from this point that all the water flows south to the Atlantic Ocean.

We stopped for lunch in Kenora. While I was in the car sorting out my satellite radio Brian had found a trinity of natives. Not quite sure what they were talking about but they asked us for a tooney (as they said they were robbed by a gang of kids). We gassed up and then headed towards our 4th Province…Manitoba. The Manitoba highway was huge – 2 lanes but the median and shoulders were huge. All the drivers were really laid back cruising along at 100 or so. If that was in Quebec they would be bombing along at 130 or so. The scenery for the first 30 – 45 minutes of being on the Manitoba highway was much like New Brunswick, trees and a grassy shoulder/median. However all of a sudden the tress suddenly disappeared and everything went flat…the beginning of the plains? Along this highway we passed the longitudinal center of Canada.

We are staying at the Howard Johnston Express Winnipeg tonight. We just came back from a tour of Winnipeg. We drove down and around the main streets. We got to see the football stadium where the Winnipeg Blue Bombers play, the MTS center (not sure what happens there)

Tomorrow is going to be a long, long day. We aim to drive from Winnipeg to Banff, where we plan to stay at Andy's place. Map Quest states this as a 15 hour journey. We are hoping to reduce this by a few hours, and as we are still operating on Atlantic Time we would gain 3 hours once in Alberta. Well thats it tonight. My blog isn't uploading pictures so its making me mad thus im gonna quit and post as is...

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