Day 6, Monday, July 2, 2007
We slept in! Didn’t get up until about 8:00 am Manitoba time. Then we all showered, and I got to visiting with a couple from Ontario and that took up a lot of time. He knew about the Highway 117 that I want to take heading home from Montreal. They say it is a beautiful drive. Once we got the tanks dumped we were off - - - - - to the nearest Tim Horton’s which was at least a 30 minute drive up the road. This was a hard time for Willa because she wants her coffee NOW!!!! But once we got to T/H’s and untied her and she got her coffee all was well again. Good drive into Winnipeg and after
a bit of looking we found the Western Canadian Aviation Museum. We spent about 1-1.5 hours there and then we continued on to the Living Prairie Museum and spent 1-1.5 hours there. Very interesting. It is a 40 acre site and allowed to go back to the original prairie grass and other plants which can get to be 1-2 meters high (3-6 feet). The best part was the Monarch butterfly caterpillars. They maintain a certain plant that they like and there were literally hundreds of the caterpillars. Some were just getting ready to form there ?????????? Like a cocoon and one was just getting ready to form when we went for our walk and when we came back it had already formed his cocoon which apparently only takes about 2 minutes. We all found that very fascinating. The grass lands walk was not much different then we would see in our own field except for the height. From the Living Prairie Museum we headed for the Travelers RV Park to spend the night. Very hot traveling especially through town. Kept the generator running and the roof to
p air conditioner and it made traveling a little easier. Only burns about a gallon an hour so not too hard on gas. Got to the campsite about 5:45 pm. Nice campsite but in the middle of an open field, it took about an hour for the a/c to cool the m/h down. Not unpleasant in the shade but hot in the sun. The site faced the wrong way and we had the sunny side to the door and even the awning didn’t help. But turned around it would have been ok. Something to remember for the next campsite. Tomorrow we will head to the Forks, an old restored railyard with a food market and other sites to see. Then on to the Royal Canadian Mint. We hope to touch basis with Andrea Cooper, daughter of friends, Tom and Gwynne Cooper. But see what the day brings. Can hardly wait to see what is over the horizon tomorrow.
We slept in! Didn’t get up until about 8:00 am Manitoba time. Then we all showered, and I got to visiting with a couple from Ontario and that took up a lot of time. He knew about the Highway 117 that I want to take heading home from Montreal. They say it is a beautiful drive. Once we got the tanks dumped we were off - - - - - to the nearest Tim Horton’s which was at least a 30 minute drive up the road. This was a hard time for Willa because she wants her coffee NOW!!!! But once we got to T/H’s and untied her and she got her coffee all was well again. Good drive into Winnipeg and after
a bit of looking we found the Western Canadian Aviation Museum. We spent about 1-1.5 hours there and then we continued on to the Living Prairie Museum and spent 1-1.5 hours there. Very interesting. It is a 40 acre site and allowed to go back to the original prairie grass and other plants which can get to be 1-2 meters high (3-6 feet). The best part was the Monarch butterfly caterpillars. They maintain a certain plant that they like and there were literally hundreds of the caterpillars. Some were just getting ready to form there ?????????? Like a cocoon and one was just getting ready to form when we went for our walk and when we came back it had already formed his cocoon which apparently only takes about 2 minutes. We all found that very fascinating. The grass lands walk was not much different then we would see in our own field except for the height. From the Living Prairie Museum we headed for the Travelers RV Park to spend the night. Very hot traveling especially through town. Kept the generator running and the roof to
p air conditioner and it made traveling a little easier. Only burns about a gallon an hour so not too hard on gas. Got to the campsite about 5:45 pm. Nice campsite but in the middle of an open field, it took about an hour for the a/c to cool the m/h down. Not unpleasant in the shade but hot in the sun. The site faced the wrong way and we had the sunny side to the door and even the awning didn’t help. But turned around it would have been ok. Something to remember for the next campsite. Tomorrow we will head to the Forks, an old restored railyard with a food market and other sites to see. Then on to the Royal Canadian Mint. We hope to touch basis with Andrea Cooper, daughter of friends, Tom and Gwynne Cooper. But see what the day brings. Can hardly wait to see what is over the horizon tomorrow.
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