Sleep Inn Sault Ste. Marie Sault Ste. Marie

Weather permitting I will be flying from Sault Ste. Marie to Toronto, with a 6 hour layover then it is on to Paris. This is exactly the flight I took last year and Air Canada decided to leave my big suitcase in Toronto, shipped it to France as I was leaving Paris for Rome. I was boarding the Carnival Splendor to room with a woman I had never met...

We booked ourselves into the Pine Grove Motel on the far end of the strip of cheap accommodation on the outsirts of Sault Ste Marie (or Soo to the locals) for two nights. The motel was very clean, newly refurbished but hilariously decorated. It was like an interior design junkie had vomited cushions all over our bed, and they had managed to ...

Well folks, this is the last day of blogging, I think! Maybe a short "wrap it up" entry tomorrow...

Today we left Rossland, and rode to Marathon for a coffee. Then we continued on to Wawa. In Wawa we saw the giant Canada goose monument (yes, really...), some Gitchee Goomee statues (Gordon Lightfoot "The legend lives on from the Chippewa o...

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Superior National Park offered great views of rocky escarpments, and Canadian Shield terrain. We stopped to hike down a short trail to take in the view of a water fall with fog shrouded Lake Superior off in the distance. Nice to get out of the car for a bit of exercise since the day was a long drive.

Googoo was low on gas at one point in...

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.

We re-entered the USA this afternoon, we were worried about the reception we would get from homeland security, but after a couple of questions, he handed the passports back and sent us on our way, we both hope that this will be a pattern for the future. We crossed into the US so we could  camp on the edge of the Sault Sainte Marie locks, or as t...

Well, we slept in this morning after yesterday's long drive and awoke to sunny but cool weather with a little bit of a breeze. Mattie got a short first "p" walk this morning - it was cold! I took the van to Canadian Tire after breakfast to have the right turn indicator bulb replaced. Turns out there were a couple other lights that were out too s...

After a long time of wandering I found myself without any money and stuck living with my parents. It was a difficult time for me and the prospect of picking up some part time work just didn't fit in. So after a lot of thought and confusion I took my show on the road and made out for my old university town.