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Waking up, breaking camp, and getting ready to go, I had a pleasant surprise: The fellow who owned the ranch across the road from my campsite was just on his way in/out for a morning visit, and being a friendly person, decided to invite me into town for breakfast. Apparently, about a week earlier, he'd also taken a long-distance pedesrian from France (pulling a wagon with his provisions since last summer) walker out for breakfast, and said pedestrian had made the local paper.
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After waking up at 9am, I was still in something of a not-riding headspace, so I prepared myself a new sheet of paper with important details from my notebook for the next few days (a habit I'd been refining since a little under a week into the ride; important details including phone numbers to call ahead for accomodations, grocery lists, etc.) I also made a few minor repairs on the bike, and decided (my host in Winnipeg not having a pressure gauge on his foot pump) to pick up a portable tire pressure gauge at MEC (like I'd been meaning to since I got my pump in Vancouver).
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I woke up at around 7am, fed myself, made a somewhat better fix to the front rack, straightening them out, tightening the U-bolts so they'd hold better, messing with the pannier clips so that they'd be better balanced, and not quite so inclined to throw the racks out of alignment, and refreshing some of the duct tape. Then I packed everything up, and was on my way at around 10:30am.
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Having stayed up later than planned on the 1st making journal updates, I overslept a bit, and after swinging by Canadian Tire to pick up a Manitoba road atlas, I wasn't really going until about noon. Once again, the substantial headwinds had returned, so it was back to slow, difficult slogging.
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I got up, and was able to start on my way at around 9:30am. Much to my delight, the highway disrepair running from Peebles to Kipling appeared to end at Kipling, and I was able to enjoy some more nice roads.. at least most of the time.
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