WITH clearing skies we left 'Elm Creek' after a quick breakfast and headed to Winnipeg, home to 750,000 people, the main city in the province of Manitoba.

A shorter, 50-mile day on the saddle meant more time to pitch our tents, make some phone-calls home and seek out donuts in 'Tim Houghtons' (found all over Canada)!

After riding nearly 400-miles over 5 days from Regina, I slept soundly under canvas despite the heavy night-time downpours.