Day 19 Gull Lake to Chaplin

Left the school at 6:40, warm and sunny. Brigette had a flat at 17 klm. Ed V the master tire repairman  had it fixed in about 15 minutes but noticed a grind in the rear hub. In Swift Current, at the 55 k mark, we found the town's bike shop which was just opening for the day at 9:30.  The owner took the bike apart and fixed the issue in about 45 minutes.

While heading out of town towards the TCH, I noticed a store front sign "Schimmel's Dutch Bakery". At that point we figured we may as well stop and grab a bite.  The place was all decked out like Holland and I was able to try my broken Dutch on the owner.  This was a great little stop and so was the Saskatoon berry pie.

Back on the road again, we were pretty well at the end of the pack, so we had to move it. We finally caught up to people at about the 100 k mark. The winds were favourable all day thankfully.  The land seems pretty barren around here other than by Morse there was a Lake that went on for miles it seemed. They take sodium phosphate out of there. Huge piles of the white stuff which is used for making fertilizer.

Got into the Chaplin Campground at 2:25. It's basically a field. There is a community swimming pool  that had ice cold showers.  Walked a few blocks to the town grocery store for a chocolate milk and saw the roads are all gravel.  There really isn't much going on here, no wifi either. The 3 ball diamonds here haven't been used in about 6 years. There is a K-12 School though with 45 students.

Totals for day: 145 klm, 5:22 cycling time, 27.3 kph avg.