Homeward Bound

August 18th

Up at daybreak and on the road shortly after.  Hit up a Tim Horten's for breakfast and kept on motoring East.   Around noon time we pulled into a visitors center just into Saskatchewan for a quick break.  Turned out it wasn't as quick break as Tyler's cycle had a breakdown.  The rear wheel bearings hard gone out completely.  The closest suzuki dealer was 200 miles away and couldn't get any bearings till Monday.  Well that didn't really help us as we needed to be home by then.  We started looking into renting a uhaul for the rest of the trip back and the two ladies in the visitors center overheard what had happened and the predicament we were in.  One of them says she thinks there is a machine shop about five miles away that has lots of bearings.  Even though we didn't think  there would be any way they would have the correct bearing we though it was worth a shot to check.  So Duane and I threw the tire on the back of my bike and rode down to the shop to see what they had.  Turns out they had all three bearings we needed and even did the work to install them.  We were surprised and very thankful, as we very easily could be bouncing home in a uhaul right now.  So after our two hour delay we were back in the saddle again and rode hard till around 11 pm where we stopped in Carlyle, SK.  The campground was full in town so we made use of the dugout in the ball field next door.  In spite of the bearing issue we still managed to get just over 600 miles covered for the day.