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Trip Start
Sep 23, 2010
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Trip End
Jul 13, 2012
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Around 11pm we found a Walmart (there are 6 in Winnipeg) and went in to check if it was ok to park the night. The guy said it would be ok as they were a 24hr store but checked with the manager anyway. Great our first 24hr Walmart experience, well at least we have plenty of access to the toilets, let's hope it quietens down sometime soon, ear plugs tonight me thinks!
21st July.
Up at 8.15am and into Walmart to use the facilites and then back to the van for breakfast. After breakfast we headed across the road to top up our propane tank, even though the gauge still says full we thought it best to check. As only 5 and a half litres went in, we were happy that the gauge worked. It seems pretty good on propane. While we were there, we checked the tyre pressures and found that they were much higher than the paperwork from Canadian Tyre had put down. So we drove round to the local branch to get them to check that our new tyre gauge was working correctly. It seems that the gauge was correct and the idiots had put too much in, a good 10 to 20 psi too much! I'm as much to blame in trusting them and waiting so long to check them, still 2500 miles isn't too much, is it! With our tyre pressures corrected, we headed off towards the Perimeter Road and out of town, but whilst we were waiting at a set of lights I heard a hissing and a smell of rotten veg. I pulled over and found that the pressure relief valve was venting some gas! Not 100 percent sure we turned round and drove back to the petrol station to ask the fuel pump attendant if that was normal. He said he wasn't sure but advised us to ask a company called Superior Propane the other side of town. So we drove round the Perimeter Road the opposite way and hunted for them, only to find that they had moved but eventually found them the other end of the road they were before. A guy there confirmed that it was the relief valve and to let off some of the propane as when it gets hot there's no room for expansion and therefore puts pressure on the system. So we pulled up down a quiet road and boiled up some water for a cup of tea later, made some lunch and released some of the gas into the atmosphere. We then finally headed off out of the city stopping every now and then to check the propane. An hour or so out of town we stopped at a place called Altona (the sunflower capitol) to see a giant size copy of Van Gogh's sunflowers on a huge easel. From there we headed south towards Emerson and the US border where we hoped to cross back into the US.
