km today: 101.4
total km: 2359.7
The day started off promising. There were clouds in the sky leading us to believe it would be a cool, sunscreen free day. We didn’t quite anticipate it would be such a wet day though. About 15km in the rain started. Ten km later we were wet and ready for coffee in Broadview. What started as coffee turned out to be a full second breakfast along with a plate sized cinnamon bun to finish us off. We felt great for the first time in days. We are having trouble eating enough (as our caloric needs are huge) and we have been feeling the effects in the form of extreme spaciness and lack of energy on the longer days. A daily second breakfast is our new solution.
Before leaving the shelter of the restaurant we both hung out in front of the hand dryers in the washroom, and upgraded our tee-shirts to more appropriate long sleeved versions and adorned our rain gear. The remaining 75km of day saw only one break in the rain, occurring in Whitewood, where we had a mini break as we shopped for lunch. Other than that we got drenched. We had intended on making it all the way to Fleming, a tiny town with a population of 89, 14km east of Moosomin and 5km west of the Manitoba border. However, when we pulled into Moosomin like two drowned rats we decided that, for the first time since Winlaw, we needed to stay indoors. We were so wet, it felt as though a shower was right above our heads causing the constant stream of rain running down our faces and feeding the growing lakes in our shoes.
Turning on the TV (a true luxury) we discovered that were, and had been, just outside the paths of various tornados. We saw footage of various funnel clouds and listened to eyewitnesses describe the tornados. We also saw footage of baseball sized hail that had wreaked havoc on car windshields, destroyed prize crops and even leveled a barn.
We went to bed feeling very justified in deciding to leave our tent packed away.
B&K
P.S. Sorry for the lack of photos. We were too wet to take out the cameras and too cold to operate them anyway.
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