We take off at 9:30 a.m. for Regina, 155 miles away. It’s chilly and cloudy, but an easy ride, very flat and reasonably straight.
John has some contacts in Regina, Mr. and Mrs. Taylor. We spend a day here and have a look around town. We go to an art gallery, a natural history museum, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police museum, where John spots an old cabin trunk used by gold smugglers with stickers on it from his grandmother’s hotel in Petone, New Zealand.
We head for Riding Mountain National Park. About five miles from Ochre River, as we’re tired and running late, Mr. and Mrs. DeVries, a local farmer and his wife, let us use their cellar to spend the night.