After leaving our host, we try to get a Canadian SIM card without success, as our cell phones are locked. We decide to stay with T-Mobile. The next errand includes refilling our LP tank for the first time, which happens with its share of confusion. By the time we get back to the road, the blue skies of the morning have clouded over with heavy rains and gusty winds bringing some water into the RV. Thus we arrive at our host's place in Winnipeg.
After a very warm welcome and a good connection, we are given a ride into downtown Winnipeg. There we walk around the Forks, a historic meeting place, vibrant with its green space and numerous shops. Through the Esplanade Riel across the Red River, we enter the St. Boniface French quarter, rich in history and in French-speaking population, and that's pretty much it. We are getting back Downtown through the same Esplanade Riel and we browse around the Exchange, which includes North America's most extensive collection of early 20th-century brick and cut stone architecture. Plus the alternative culture inside and outside its walls.
We come back into the empty downtown, desperately searching for some restrooms. We finally arrive in a more animated area, that, it's not a surprise, happens to be the big mall. Maybe the reason people hang out at the mall is because of the proximity of the restrooms. We then walk to VJ's drive-in to get their famous chili burger and browned french fries, before heading to our host's place on the city bus.
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