Lloydminster to North Battleford « A Place to Call Home
Cycling time: 4 hours, 17 minutes
The ride from Lloydminster to Turtleford was my first day in Saskatchewan proper, and a very enjoyable one it was too: blue skies and tailwinds accompanied me all day, as did a quite stupendous number of dragonflies! I’ve always had a bit of a soft spot for these prehistoric flying aliens, and since learning that they eat mosquitoes, they’ve risen even further in my estimation. Mile upon mile of highway 303 was lined with clumps of bright yellow, daisy-like flowers, and, with their heads all turned south towards the sun, they truly seemed to glow with the beauty of summer. I’d been warned that the roads in Saskatchewan were not in very good shape, but whilst it’s true that highway 21 (on which I spent a little time during this journey) was not the most smoothly paved road I’ve ever cycled on, it was certainly no worse than many I encountered in BC, and highway 303 was perfectly lovely: well-paved, well-shouldered and – most enjoyably for me – not particularly well-travelled.
Turtleford is but a tiny place, without even a local paper to speak to, so my stay there was basically just an overnight stop to break the journey between Lloydminster and North Battleford. However, that didn’t stop me from finding the time to not only talk to the president of the local Lions Club and persuade him to suggest to the club that they make a donation to SOS Children’s Villages once they start meeting again after the summer, but also to take an extremely pleasant and refreshing swim in Turtle Lake. Yes, Silver the water baby strikes again: 100 km on the trike, and still I couldn’t resist taking the plunge! Suffice it to say I wasn’t swimming particularly hard , though…
And the next day, I found yet another handy use for my fairing: as a sail! The torrential rain that greeted me first thing had pretty much eased off by the time I was on the road, but the strong tail winds kept up for most of the day, so I didn’t so much cycle to North Battleford as sail there!
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