May
19/06, Friday. Day 15 1390 Km
Dry
dugout in a farmer's field, east of
Sovereign, Sask. ~115 Kms ~ 6:40 Hrs
Headwinds
all day though not super strong. We
rarely exceeded 20 Km/Hr. There were no services between where we
camped and Rosetown; about 75 Kms. There may be no services between
Rosetown & Outlook; there is little of anything and we've come
half way already to
get to where we're camped.
I've got to check the map to see what our next stop could be after
Outlook.
7704-1390=6314
Km = 1/6 in 2 weeks = 12 weeks.
I jotted
down this equation to try to figure out how we were doing and what
our trip length would be. Our final distance would turn out to be
less than the official length of the Trans-Canada.
Doug
finally got hold of Nikki. All is good. I got a second knee brace
today in Rosetown. A neoprene one that just holds everything
together. (Good since my knee was going click click this morning.) I
moved the side-staved one to the right knee. One of the staves had
torn some
of
the skin on my left knee.
Overheard
a conversation in the restaurant in Rosetown about a lady who got 15
yrs in prison for killing her baby. The weapon was "traces of
marijuana in her breast milk." I'd like to see the court documents on
that one. Also the subpoena for the milk sample.
Our
first stop in Rosetown had been at a gas station where we'd both had
a dump and got something cold to drink before heading for the
restaurant a little farther up the road. When I paid for my drink
they had a map of Saskatchewan under Plexiglas for a counter. I
thought it must be an old one and commented on it. It showed an
up-coming portion of Highway 15 as being gravel while the map that I
had bought a few days earlier had shown it as paved. Nobody just
unpaves a road. I was told "No," this was the most current
map, it came in with the most recent shipment.
No one
at the gas station had ever driven that road so couldn't tell me from
personal experience which map was correct.
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