Wawa
Travel Blogs from Wawa, Canada
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Rain...
Deux jours sans connexion … même pas de cellulaire. Deux nuits de pluies m'empêchant de dormir et des jours nuageux et froid. La soirée n’avait pas mal commencé, un couple de Salvadoriens rencontré sur la route, travaillant à Edmonton ...
We're in Wawa!
... of you who've already asked!) Saw a few bicyclists on the road, and when we got to our campground found out that the Tour de Canada was in progress on the Trans-Canada Highway (Hwy 1), so we'd be seeing (and avoiding) more of them on the road the next ...
First Day on the Road
... far I have not passed through any large centres. If my plans go as hoped this will be a trip of visits to small town Canada. The only large centres I must visit are Thunder Bay and Winnipeg. There aren't any bypasses that make sense I am in Wawa, the ...
Ontario the humongous
Single-laned highways, speeding trucks, unseasonably cold weather, horizontal rain, and wind - oh the WIND! Take all that, and throw in the need to be perpetually on 'high alert' for the deer and moose that dart out from the forest and you get a sense of ...
No wonder the Edmund Fitzgerald got wrecked
... eerie fog. Then the sky darkens. We hasten into our raingear just in time. First everlasting fog, now a deluge! We finally wash up in Wawa and Henry says, "Maybe this is the night we should stay in a hotel." He is really beat, and no wonder. I could never ...
Small may be the answer.
... if we should just stay an extra day cause it was so nice and sunny but we packed up and got ready to head back into Canada. The crossing was quick and uneventful and we are now heading up the eastern side of Lake Superior to Wawa. We really weren't ...
I think it's a sign to buy the wild rice -
Also known as the low point of the trip: we had a very restless night last night, camping on the edge of South Bay. Our tent very nearly blew over, with us inside! Mario had to get up in the middle of the night - several times - to re-peg the tent back ...
Walking in the footsteps of the Group of Seven
... to make sure you are gassed up as the nearest gas station is about 80 km to the west or 40 km to the east. Canada’s Group of Seven artists spent time in this area around 1917-1920’s and you can see why they were attracted to the rugged ...
Chapleau, Ontario
... construction but now after four weeks time it was all fresh pavement and it was flat and smooth. John continued East on Hwy #17 to Wawa then East on Hwy #101 to Chapleau where he stayed at a small motel run by a Chinese family who had moved there over ...
the big goose and Winnie in White River
... of us. Thankfully, they stayed away from our path. Goals for the day: 1) Take a photo of the Big Goose in Wawa 2) Visit the Terry Fox memorial 3) Sleep on the "Sleeping Giant" aka Thunder Bay tonight We experienced drizzle along with sun ...
Ya des oies
... 4, des grosses bottes pi la caissiere parlait francais (mais on s'entend qu'etait franco-ontarienne.) Max: WAWA c'est plus qu'un petit village aux airs... d'autoroute. Ya quoi a wawa benji? Blow Job: Ya des OUooooo! des ouooo des ouooooo c'est des ouo. ...
Leaving the US
... very close by. We stopped at a nice roadside park for lunch next to a rushing creek. The air is fresh and sun is warm! Hope you enjoy the photos. We may not have internet for a few days as we work our way across ...
The Begining of Lake Superior Ride
... . Albert rides a BMW 1100RT regularly to work and for pleasure. Gas in Germany is about four times what we pay in Canada. They were a real nice couple. We even got to go through their family album. Albert introduced us to some German Yellow Plum ...
Wawa (The Goose)
The drive from the Soo to Wawa is one of the most scenic in Canada. There are some gorgeous waterfalls and beaches near Wawa - eg Magpie Falls, Silver Falls. Potholes Prov Park – 35 km east of Wawa. Glacial potholes and troughs. Hiking. See: ...
Lake Superior PP
Wir haben am Morgen entdeckt, wie wunderbar unser Platz gewesen wäre. Direkt am Strand hätten wir sicher einen schönen Sonnenuntergang bestaunen können. Aber leider sind wir am Vorabend zu spät angekommen. Da wir wegen dem Long Weekend den nächsten ...
Oh dear
... is suppose to be rainy so we thought we would put on more miles in the good weather. We have found a nice campsite in Wawa and have settled in for the night. It has already started raining here and a small amount of wind as well. The ...
Waterfalls!
... . I sat down at the beach and had my lunch. Put my feet into Lake Superior - rather fresh! I kept heading south to Wawa and stopped at the Tourist Info centre to see the canadian goose. Nevermind the goose, the flag was HUGE but the staff ...
A Day of Driving
Today was relatively uneventful as we had no major sites to see but the drive along the coast was beautiful. I was working on putting Jen's music on my Ipod so I was working away with the computer while she drove. We did manage to pull over to a lookout ...
Waterfalls and Wawa
... in a very small breakfast room. Monday, Labor Day, in the US is day of sales and getting ready for school to start.; in Canada a day of almost complete shut-down. Even Walmart is closed in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. They take this holiday ...
Wawa ?
I was not feeling very well in Ontario. I spent a very sick night at a roadside motel with purple bathroom fixtures. Chris brought me some wonton soup. We needed new tires and spent a long, horrible day at Walmart waiting for them to ...
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