It's been a lot of driving and we're finally back in our home province, but not in the Eastern time zone yet. I think people still have a hard time fathoming just how big Ontario...make that Canada is. You can drive for 12 ~ 16 hours a day and only cross a portion of the country. It feels good knowing in a day or two, we'll be back home in the GTA, I'm starting to miss the comfort of my bed and it will be nice to see my family.
Sadly, we didn't back track to Regina today, I felt bad for not stopping in and seeing Bill, but I had a goal of making it into Ontario tonight and if we had, for sure we would have been camping out in Manitoba for the evening. I'm sure he'll understand and I promise next year to stop by and pay him a visit. If he doesn't mind, maybe I'll stay for a week or so.
On our drive back east, we made an important stop today, we finally got to visit Wolverine Supplies. They're located near Virden, Manitoba, a less then an hours drive into the province (coming east from Saskatchewan). I didn't end up buying much, a couple of magazines and a crate of Czech surplus 7.62x39, I'm starting to run dangerously low on funds, at this rate, I'll have to start doing OT when I get back to work.
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Roland splurged a bit more then I did, he bought some mags, ammo, as well as some optics.
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Wolverine is a nice store, a lot smaller then I thought considering their online retail presence, but they did have a fantastic selection of firearms for sale on both the racks and in the cabinets. Sadly, I didn't snap any pictures of inside the store, I did grab a few from outside of store, especially of my truck. With all the weight from "gear" and our purchases along the way, I think the bed of my truck is starting to ride on the frame, haha.
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The last big stop before we headed back east, was to grab dinner in Winnipeg. Knowing this would be our last major stop of the night, where we could stretch and move around. We ended up at this dirty (but delicious) little burger shop called VJ's. The food was good, it was quick and best of all reasonably priced. A delicious dirty burger!
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We're staying in Dryden for the night, I'm not sure how far we'll get tomorrow, considering how we're still a 3 ~ 4 hour drive from Thunderbay, we'll probably have to pass out somewhere along the drive.
We'll see what tomorrow bring!
Here are the photo's of the day
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