Day 18 Yorkton to Russell

From Yorkton we could set either a short goal or a long one - i.e. Russell or Shoal Lake. I thought that the short goal was more reasonable given that the winds were strong and from the northeast again. In the late afternoon we crossed the border into Manitoba and entered a new time zone making our arrival in Russell in the early evening. 

Our distance today was 99 km, which isn't bad considering the headwinds. 

While having breakfast in Yorkton we had a con with two guys who were working on the railway to Hudson's Bay. They were replacing railway ties using complete set of dedicated machines that included a spike puler, tie remover, tie installer, spike inserter, ballast tamper and grader. They changed 4000 to 6000 ties a day. It was nice to see how proud they were about their work. Since Dad worked for the CPR after WWII, we had lots to talk about. We said goodbye by saying that we would sing The Canadian Rail Trilogy for them as we biked along.