#12 Yorkton to Winnipeg
Yorkton to Winnipeg requires about 5 hours of
driving. Happy Father’s Day!
A few miles out of
Yorkton, I spotted two brown splotches of unfamiliar roadkill. Just as I was wondering what kind of critter
lost their life crossing the highway, a small little brown critter pops up! We
needed to get close enough to see it was a tiny little red, brown fox, white
bushy tail and all. S/he exhibited the small thin body structure like a
miniature Whippet dog. Its height also resembled
a toy Poodle. Today s/he successfully
crossed the highway. Wish I had gotten a picture.
We chuckled at an
Insurance billboard that stated they were “a trusted name in hail insurance.”
That certainly makes a statement about the weather here.
Small town after small town came and went. Some had farm equipment dealerships with all the big equipment needed for the fields. Other towns have vehicle dealerships with 90% pick-up trucks. With all the dirt roads, it makes Canadian’s love affair with nice trucks more understandable.
Oil and grain cars
sit on the tracks getting ready to distribute their goods. The line of cars seem to go on and on.
Some ranches raise
buffalo. Others support cattle. Some
herds are all black, like Angus. Some are brown and other are mixed colors.
Farmers and ranchers out and about with their equipment to do their jobs.
Farmers and ranchers out and about with their equipment to do their jobs.
The little town of
Russel, looks like the typical little towns along our way. Liked the big steer at the information center!
Pools and ponds still sit alongside the road.
Some of the roadside pools in this area have bird nest built on stilts. They look like straw Quonset huts and face the pool. They were hard to see with enough warning to photograph.
A plane flew low over the fields. We thought it might be a crop duster, but then it looked like he was out for fun.
Rest stops are few
and far between along the highway. Most
stops do not accommodate trucks or big RVs.
But on TC-16 you can pull off and on easily at wide spots in the road.
Actual freeway
junctions outside the cities are basically just an intersections. Some have
stop signs, or traffic lights with turn lanes. Some have “important
intersection” signs!
Here is a seatbelt
sign and an example of their “polite” signs.
Gotta love the Canadians!
After miles of small
towns, Neeschwin sits on the edge of urban life.
It has a chicken restaurant, McDonald’s, Dairy Queen in the same block. Boston Pizza is here too! Century 21 offices can help you locate or relocate.
Trees line the residential streets. A traffic light directs travel, and there exists the feel of a “real town”.
After leaving town we saw our first double
yellow line on the highway. Passing
lanes are provided on the flat highways to help move the traffic along.
We were a bit
surprised to learn that Manitoba is a bilingual province. New Brunswick is the only other bilingual province. Quebec has French as its primary language,
but we have had little difficulty getting around Quebec. In bilingual provinces signs appear in English and French.
The Arrowhead RV Park
is located SW of Winnipeg. Fortunately a beltway called The Perimeter took us
around downtown area, especially after seeing the downtown in person.
The RV Park put us in the back lot that could be an almost twin to the Elks. We set up and headed into town for dinner at another Boston Pizza.
The RV Park put us in the back lot that could be an almost twin to the Elks. We set up and headed into town for dinner at another Boston Pizza.
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