Today we need to go into downtown Winnipeg (with the trailer) to the Apple store where we hope they can provide us with the missing piece to our charger. It's Saturday, so traffic should be light, and we left early before the mad shoppers. As a result we easily made it to the store located in a huge upscale mall, and being early, found a parking spot (s).
It's only 9, so we figured the store might not be open, but went into the mall to check. Most of the stores were still closed, but Apple was open and ready for business! The manager was in a meeting so we browsed around looking at all the beautiful toys until he came, was sympathetic to our dilemma, gave us an extension cord that would work, and we were back outside and on our way! Very kind of him.
Along the highway we were passed by a large truck, and it looked like bits of paper flying around after it - but no, they were white moths. Thousands and thousands of them in the fields (and on the highway), splatting all over the truck. Yuck. Should be fun getting them all off!
We see lots of varied crops - canola, large fields of sunflowers, hay all baled in huge bales, wheat, lentils and peas..... (all food for the moths I think). But as we turned south we saw lots of flooded areas - whole fields right up to the barns all under water.
Our goal today is the town of Bengough (pronounced Bengoff) in Saskatchewan where we want to climb Castle Butte. We got directions from the SK tourist bureau and continued along. Saskatchewan looks like a tall, narrow province on the map, but let me tell you it is a long way across! Highway 1 (Trans Canada) could use some road work, but then we turned off onto highway 9 and found that Highway 1 wasn't so bad. Then we turned onto highway 13 which we followed for hours before coming to the Bengough turnoff, then more secondary road to the town and the little local park. Very nice park, run by the town. We had a huge site, level enough so we didn't need to unhook (except in the end we unhooked as we were advised not to take the trailer to the butte).
Saskatchewan is an hour different time from Manitoba because they don't change to daylight savings time- 3 hours different from home now.
We arrived in time for a late supper, a walk around the little park and a couple of streets of the town, and bed.
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