Algomas Water Tower Inn Sault Ste. Marie

... been given some money by my folks back home to spend on an excusion, we decieded to invest this in an 8 hour tour on the Agawa Canyon railway tour. This was to leave the following morning at 8am from the station near the harbour. We booked our tickets and went to bed early in prepartion for our early departure the next day.

At the station we gathered with the other passengers at 7.30am, all bustling to get the best window seats available. The average age ...

... scenic lookouts. Lake Superior is massive, windy, and wavy. No surprises there!

We saw a little bear cub at the side of the road, and I caught him on camera.

The Soo was uninspiring (sorry folks, I calls 'em like I sees 'em), but we at least found a Days Inn for some pizza and beer. We carried on...like a couple of tired horses bolting for home at the end of a long ride. :-)

We ended up on St Joseph Island, at ...

... at the breaker sub-panel. After checking all the connections realize that one of the wires is loose and plastic around one of the wires is burning due to some arcing. The breaker was for the neighbours trailer, but was next to mine. A while longer and both breakers would have fried and could have caused a major fire (right next to my truck).

So that was our excitement for today. Time for bed. Another long drive tomorrow.

Night night!

... was this: Americans are much more patriotic, while Canadians don't seem to care. My wife is a dual citizen, born and raised in America, so she had some strong opinions.

There was time in the evening to take in some of the sights along the Sault Ste Marie boardwalk near our hotel. I was short on time so I pulled on my runners and went for a jog with my video camera to ...

Stopped for lunch just out side of Sault Ste. Marie, which happened to be a historical landmark. Why? Well, it was the middle point of the Trans Canada Hwy, between St. John's, Newfoundland and Victoria, BC!

Right on the Chippewa River... we took some pictures after lunch & went on our merry way.

... Space Station fly over us, its amazing how bright and also how fast that thing trucks across the sky, we visited the NASA web site to get the information, those folk in New Zealand can also do it and the site will advise when it will pass over head and for how long it will be visible etc etc, it’s a great site or is it a sight!!!

Tomorrow we go back to Canada to continue our trek north heading for Thunder Bay.

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We had a really scenic drive around Lake Superior today. We were suprised that a lot of it had really great views of the lake and the highway was quiet today. We had lunch on the beach at Terrace Bay which was nice because we were the only ones there. We had a little rain today which was ok because it washed the huge ...

After waiting 10 minutes for the "famous" Swing Bridge to close we got off Manitoulin Island and drove the top of Lake Huron to Sault Ste Marie. A nice town on the St Marys River which seperates Lake Huron from Lake Superior. Sault Ste Marie, Michigan is across the river so we were able to view the 4th of July fireworks from Canada. Great view and not many people. The show was ok but not like Boston. Roger especially missed the music. Took us 5 minutes to get back to the motel.

2009 05 30 About 50 km W of Sudbury, slabs of rock and rubble give way to scenic boreal forests and clean river water. Although there are occasional outcroppings of bare rock, most of the ground is green - there are even hay fields, cattle farms, horse boarding and equine centers. There are several small towns located around numerous curves but the elevation changes are gradual so overall the trip was slower but scenic. In the village of Echo Bay, there's a Loon Dollar Monument that ...

I made my way out of Thunder Bay around the edge of Lake Superior and passed a memorial place dedicated to a young man Terrance Stanley Fox, whom the highway was named in honor of. Terry embarked on a journey from the east coast, at St. John's and intended to run to the west coast (a total of 5,300 miles, similar to what I'm doing, although driving). He was doing this to raise awareness for cancer, after loosing his right leg and running 26 miles ...