It rained on and off during the night. We’d been told the roads are very slippery when wet so we weren’t sure whether to sit out the rain or continue on. We used our Garmin Inreach to contact Matt for a weather report. Rain was forecast for today ( Tuesday), fine Wednesday then rain for the rest of the week.

We continued to Eagle Plaines and fuelled up and checked our route. Wildfires were still blocking our route south, but we’d worry about them when we got there.

It wasn’t raining as yet so we decided to push on and get as far as we could before the roads got muddy and slippery.

We had some heavy rain on the drive and this is when our wipers decided to pack up again. Mike drove for 50 kms in the rain, on a dirt road with no wipers before we found a decent place to stop and fix them. We had some lunch first and by the time we’d finished the rain had stopped. How convenient!

Mike tried to fix them but he didn’t have the correct tool. A couple from Quebec pulled in to help. He had a better tool and they were able to fix it. It barely rained for the rest of the day!

The road surface is so bad on this stretch, it was really slow going. We stopped on the side of the road for a 40 minute nap before continuing.

We found a little gravel pit off the side of the road with trees separating us from the road and settled down for the night.