Onward to Ontario
At a final pit stop in Manitoba, a Freedom Convoy trucker is told to 'Go get 'em.'
read Part 1: Fireworks & Applause previous installment: Wildest Ride Ever
AUTHOR NOTE: When I initially published this material about Jake & Lynnette, trucker & wife from Saskatoon, they were out-of-the-country. I wasn’t certain if the videos on which I was basing my research were backed up, and worried they might get censored by Facebook. I therefore assigned this couple the pseudonyms Ted & Sally. After they returned, they backed up their videos & consented to the use of their real names.
Ted and Sally cross the border into Ontario around 9 pm Tuesday. Sally is tired and her eyes are burning. She didn’t sleep well the night before and it has been a long day.
A short time earlier, on the eastern edge of Manitoba, they pulled over for a bathroom break and a fuel top-up. The bulk of the Convoy continued on and is now well ahead of them. Kenora is still 30 minutes away. It seems unlikely they’ll be feasting on hot roast pig, after all.
Sally is recording one last video on this truly memorable day. So much has happened, it’s difficult to believe they only left their home town of Saskatoon the previous day. There’s nothing much to see out the windshield now, so she points the camera at herself and speaks directly to the hundred-odd people watching live on Facebook.
When they pulled in at the gas pumps, she says, the attendant asked if they were part of the Convoy. After Ted said yes, “he hands us a hundred bucks. And he says ‘Go get ‘em.’”
But that wasn’t the end of the spontaneous community support:
While we’re filling up gas, this [other] guy comes to the truck door and he says ‘I’ve got food in the truck, can I bring you food?’
I said, ‘Oh, we’ve got lots of food…lots of ham sandwiches, but if you’ve got an egg salad sandwich,’ I said, ‘I’d love that.’
He says, ‘You know what…I’ll be right back.’ And he went to his vehicle and he came back and brought me his egg salad sandwich, and [Ted] a roast beef.
That’s what these people are doing, you guys.
next installment: Awake in the Parking Lot