Yesterday we left the camping around 10am and drove a couple of km. to a truck wash to give the beast and our little home a bit of a wash. A waste of time and money, the road to the camping we are parked at the moment "Shady Oaks" is down a gravel road, we now have fine film of dust over every thing.
Austin is only 70km. from Brandon so we were all set up here by lunchtime, quick butty and coffee and of to visit the Manitoba Agricultural Museum, what a place hundreds of old tractors, threshing machines, steam engines. I was in my element poor Ruth put on a good face but I think she enjoyed the homesteaders village. We have visited quite a few of these villages on our
trip, this one is by far the best.
It was very hot yesterday and after a couple of hours we gave up went into Austin village to buy a few groceries and back to the camping.
At the truck wash, cost a dollar a minute
Some of the old Tractors
Steam engine
Log cabin of an early settler
This house built towards the end of the 19th. century when the people had more money, it evan has central heating with a furnace in the basement and grills in the floor for the hot air to rise up through the house.
Looking down the village street.
The grain tower in Austin, still in use
Downtown Austin, we are parked 3rd. on left
This was the temperature when we got back to the camping 4:20 pm, 32 inside 37.5 out it acutely went up to 38.9 by 5 à clock; the inside temp went down to 27 with help of the ac.
Today Thursday, writing this, the temp. went up to 39.8 outside and people think Canada is a frozen wasteland!
final pic. last nights bbq.
Tomorrow we head north to Riding Mountain National Park.
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