Carberry, MB - 143km

This is actually Jason, as my phone finally bit the dust. I'm going to try and replace it once we're in Ontario but for now Jan's phone responsibilities have doubled!

Today the heat beat us down with unrelenting 30 degrees. Over the last week we have formed a love for slush drinks that treads into obsession. With the insane hours and energy output in the sun we want to keep drinking, and the colder the better. It's also a break from warm water as it tastes great. It's gotten to the point where after a couple hours I actually do start fantisizing about the next slush drink. When we finally punched through the last 10km into Carberry, we stopped and drank 2 of these things each - 1 of each flavor. We are that hooked!

4 weeks ago exactly we left Vancouver! Here's the general strategy overview as of tonight: we are going to try and muscle our way through 150km to Winnipeg tomorrow, under mercy of winds. If we make it, we are going to take a rest day there! The stretch after Winnipeg even in Ontario is devoid of major checkpoints so it seems the best place to rest and gear up. We should be able to manage the Ontario border in 1 or 2 days after that. From West Hawk Lake (very close to border) we begin the last massive leg of our journey. Ontario, by every account we've heard, seemingly goes on forever . The numbers corroborate this too, with our estimates showing a whopping
2000km road. Our best guess is to take 2 and a half weeks of riding days to do this plus some rest days. That should put us home at the beginning of August some time :)

A final note for tonight: we are beginning to think we'll never get rid of the train tracks at our camp spots. Every night we are woken up to absurdly loud trains that even use their horns. Our little ear plugs...they do nothing! And every time we set up camp and think we are safe, sure enough we hear the "toooooooooot!!" and know our sleep is forfeit. Aye yai yai!