6/14/22

It's a rainy day in Winnipeg. Ken and I drank coffee with Tamar and Clint, gave them our heartfelt thanks, and then headed out in the rain. If you ride long enough, you'll get caught in the rain. I've been in numerous rainstorms, some light ones and some heavy downpours. Sometimes you pull over and wait it out if you can, other times you don't have a choice and you just have to ride through it. But starting the day in rain is a tough task. But we both have a lot of miles to cover and things to see so off we went.

Ken and I are splitting up today. He's heading north from Winnipeg to see the town where his grandfather was a fur trader. I''m heading south and then west to see a few giant statues. But we both want to go to Kipling, Saskatchewan to see the world's largest red paperclip. So there's a chance that we may meet up again at the end of the day or we may not see each other again. We said our goodbyes and went our separate ways.

I had to go south west of Winnipeg to see a few giant statues. I rode about 25 miles out of town and the rain started to pick up. I could see lightning in the distance. I saw a Flying J gas station down the road. I decided to pull in to wait out the rain.

About 45 minutes later, the rain stopped. I continue on my quest to see Manitoba’s biggest sturgeon monument, a life size replica of a sturgeon caught in 1903, weighing 406 pounds, measuring 15½ feet long.

The it was off to Morden to see Bruce the mosasaur, a Guinness World Record holder as the largest publicly displayed mosasaur.

Then I got on the Red Coat Trail to see Sara the Camel, a symbol of Glenboro:

From Glenboro, it was a long haul to Kipling, Saskatchewan to see the world's largest red paperclip. The town of Kipling erected this extra large red paperclip to commemorate the series of trade starting with a red paperclip in Vancouver all the way to a house in Kipling. Read about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_red_paperclip

But before arriving into Kipling, I find myself in a deja vu moment.