June 3rd, Monday

The sun is out again ! Our first stop was in Austin at the Manitoba Agricultural Museum which featured a large collection of gas tractors (some Bernie had never heard of), farm equipment and artifacts of pioneer farmers. Most of the equipment was in open sided barns and some of the equipment was in pretty rough shape. Also on the property was a Heritage Village which depicted pioneer life in the 19th century. It was well done. The next stop was to be at The Kick Ass Country Store (quilt shop) in Plumas BUT it was closed on Mondays. Disappointing !. On a coffee stop in Neepawa on the Yellowhead Highway Bernie had a guy approach him about buying the RV. Maybe later when we get home :-). The drive today looked so different from home - huge flat fields, black soil, steel grain elevators, farms with grain storage bins, huge, huge farm equipment, marshland with lots of ducks and red winged blackbirds, farm equipment dealers with massive equipment. Our last info stop of the day was in Inglis on the Man / Sask border where the last remaining row of standard country grain elevators still stand. Again we had a private hour tour of the elevators and how they worked and factored in on one of the most important periods of development in the history of Canada's grain industry. We crossed the border into Sask and gained an other hour on the clock. Bunked in at campground in Yorkton. Sign of the day - Yellowhead Highway - the new Trans Canada