We were a little late getting going this morning.  We were still worn out from our unexpected extended ride from yesterday.

Once we got going this morning, we discovered Manitoba was pretty flat but the trees hide it much better than Saskatchewan.  Manitoba also has just as many bugs as Saskatchewan, if not more.  I had to keep cleaning my visor every stop, but it got coated almost immediately after I started riding again.

We by-passed Winnipeg via Highway 100 and then navigated back onto the Trans Canada highway.  Before we knew it, we had crossed into Ontario and Highway 1 became Highway 17.

We stopped in Kenora, Ontario for lunch and then navigated back onto Highway 17 only to be bogged down by CONSTRUCTION!  Now, we have seen a lot of construction on our trip . . . and I mean a lot of construction . . . but it has not been worth mentioning until now.  What a mess between Kenora and Dryden.  At one point, we sat for 15 minutes in the heat and the bugs and then we still had four more stop points after that, huge dips and bumps, uneven pavement and even two stretches of gravel!  We had wanted to get a little farther than Dryden today, but after the construction and our troubles with accommodations we decided Dryden was our best bet for the night.  And, lucky us, we got the very last room at the Holiday Inn Express.  It has the Dryden city bear seal of approval . . . apparently, they frequent the dumpsters at the back of the hotel.  So far, we have not seen them, though.

Oh, and we lost the MicroSD adapter for the laptop, so no more pictures until we get home…