So Happy Father's Day to all those fathers out there. Dan is getting poached eggs and toast for his breakfast - his wish.
Off we go on today's adventure. We come across Nipigon, a town of 1700 people that has a blueberry festival every August. This town boasts the smallest Canadian Tire store in Canada! Sounds like home, the blueberries I mean.
The highway maintenance companies in this area have beehive like buildings for their sand and salt. Their bridge program is in full swing, maintenance, new bridges, four laning - lots going on. They have traffic lights set up at all the bridge sites for traffic control . We have only seen one TCP at a site so far.
We pulled into a viewpoint to get some pictures of Lake Superior and behind us a couple from Kelowna pulled in as well. They have just retired, moved from Terrace to Kelowna and are going to the Maritimes as well. When they return home that will be one more thing off their bucket list. Nice people.
Lake Superior, like Ontario is huge. The landscape around here is very hilly, a lot like BC. This is not at all what we expected Ontario to be. Our expectations were that it would be very busy, flat terrain and freeway like highways, instead we are met with single lane highways, with minimal traffic and lots of hills.
Today is overcast, rainy and windy. There are lots of whitecaps on the lake - to us it looks like an ocean - it's vastness cannot be imagined, it has to be seen. We will travel 654 km from Thunder Bay to Sault Ste. Marie over the next day or so and we skirt the lake the entire time.
OMG a moose just ran out from the roadside! We were almost mooshed! Dan was on the ball so both moose and our Moho escaped unharmed! It was a yearling cow moose, so she will live to have offspring we hope.
We came to White River - where it all began, this one is for you Karianne! The Winnie The Pooh story started here. Too bad the museum wasn't open today, but we stoped for a pic anyway.
We have travelled 1012 Kim's into Ontario as of today - we think we are about halfway across Canada and maybe 1/3 of the way across Ontario if we are lucky! This is a huge province. And by the way if you were to do a circle tour around Lake Superior you would travel over 2,000 Kms. That is how vast it is.
We decide it is time to stop for the night so we pull into a campsite at Wawa. We met a couple from Ft. Saskatchewan, AB and talk about getting together for a visit - they have been following us all day.
The neighbours beside us are from Holland and we start talking and then we share dinner together. Very nice people - they are on their way to Vancouver and then they fly home. They started in Toronto and now realize that 21 days is not enough to drive across Canada and see the sights. This trip only cost them $3000 Euros or $5000 Can, including flights to Toronto and from Vancouver. Tony said that gas at home is about $2 per litre but our liquor and food here is more.
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