June 8th
Winkler, MB to Assiniboia, SK
6.5hrs and 648kms
We had a great night's sleep parked in our Unity at Leisure Travel Vans parking lot!
Craig had the foresight to have called Steve in Service on Friday and set up a 07:30am appointment to replace the water pump. Smart decision as there were other owners waiting to get in the door when they opened on Monday morning.
As we were getting LTV Kozad ready for the appointment Jan yells "Look at those".... I turn around and look out the rear window and see two Unitys driving through the lot to the paint shop!
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| Unity Corner Bed Unit "Unpainted |
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| Not as nice looking as when painted! |
Our unit was whipped right in to the shop and two hours later we were set and on our way! Will see how the new water pump works? Here's hoping.s
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| Leisure Travel Van's Customer Waiting Room |
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| Another View |
Once our unit was ready we drove over to the Winkler Tourist Park which is right in town; great spot to dump out our holding tanks. We saw another LTV Unity towing a Jeep Wrangler! Once again, I could not grab my camera fast enough to get a picture!
We headed east along the southern part of Manitoba, who would have known we would be going through Miami before entering into Saskatchewan.
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| Miami, MB Who would have known! |
We stopped in Souris, MB for fuel, lunch and a rest along the way.
A very nice little community.
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| Fuelling up in Souris, MB |
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| Woodfire Deli, Souris MB |
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| The Deli had a nice display of items to purchase |
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| We ordered a delicious wood-fired pizza for lunch! |
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| Lots of parking along the street and the Unity almost fits into a standard parking slot |
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| There is a beautiful municipal camping park in Souris, MB We found that most small towns along this route had places to stay in town |
The route we took through southern Manitoba and Saskatchewan is called the he Red Coat Trail roughly follows an approximately 1300km journey taken by the North West Mounted Police to bring the law and order to the Canadian West. From Fort Dufferin, Manitoba to the Old Man River in Southwestern Alberta where they established Fort Macleod, this was the Great March West.
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| Red Coat Trail |
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| Nice Drive Through Southern Prairies - Canada |
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| Northwest Mounted Police Red Coast Trail Manitoba |
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| Alberta Portion Of Red Coat Trail |
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| So many old crumbling homesteads |
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| Dutch Influence & Heritage |
On our driving trips Jan likes pictures to be taken of a number of sites along the way. These include cows, clouds, lone trees, water towers, grain elevators and interesting vehicles along the way.
We arrived in Assiniiboia, SK and like the other prairie towns we drove through this one had a nice city campground which had full hooks ups.
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| Nice spot t the Assiniboia Town Camp Ground |
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| Found a Monarch Butterfly! |
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| Beautiful Butterfly Unfortunately a few of these ended up on the grill of our Unity! |
Driving in the spring and early summer across the Canadian Prairies comes with bugs! Splattering of the windshield and front end of the Unity caused a lot of baked on wings, legs and bodies!
We had stopped to fuel up at a local PetroCan before bedding down in Assiniboia, and as we have done every fuel stop we attempted to clean the windshield.
Previously, all we really accomplished was smearing around the dead bugs! But amazingly at this fuel stop we were amazed at how easy the windshield came clean.
When asked what the secret formula was in the windshield station; we were told it was a mixture of the pink bug windshield washer, water and dish detergent! Wow, amazing stuff... so of course we bought a jug of the bug juice cleaner!
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| Turbo Power Bug Wash Windshield Washer |
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