Tuesday, October 03, 2006
Right, first order of business; my previous two blogs. After re-reading them I came to realise that not only were a lot of grammatical errors, spelling errors. Overall the english was pretty crap. I blame this to lack of sleep and diminishing red bull resources. Onto today's post.
@ The Hearst Welcome Center
Today we were on the road by 830am (atlantic time). Since we only had a 6 hour trip to Thunder Bay we took our time and slept in one whole extra hour. Once on the road and up to highway speeds we were cruising along at a decent pace. The sceenery consisted of a lot of trees with no civilization anywhere. The only wildlife that we have seen on the highway since leaving New Brunswick has been a bunny rabbit. However after choosing to run the wrong way it ended up under the front tyres of Brians Honda Accord. Longlac was the first sign of civilization since leaving Hearst, and even then there was very little there. That seemed to be a reoccuring theme...we would enter a village then leave it just as quick as entering. Brian had done some prior research and found that Beardmore was home to the largest snowman ever. This excited us and we had to stop for some pictures.
Frosty the Giant Snowman
From Beardmore to Thunder Bay we were again into the woods. Brian let me lead the way for this part of the journey so that was exciting. The last 100km of this highway was called the "Terry Fox Courage Highway", a section of highway dedicated to Terry Foxs' effort to help find a cure for Cancer. Background Info: After losing his leg to Cancer at the age of 18, Terry Fox planned to run across Canada from St Johns Newfoundland to Vancouver British Columbia (5300 miles). Starting in April 1980 he ran 26miles per day, by June (3339 miles complete) he had reached Ontario, Thunder Bay area. However due to recurring Cancer he had to end his run.
At the Terry Fox Monument The View from the Terry Fox monument looking over Lake Superior
Tonight we are staying at Econolodge, Thunder Bay. Every other hotel that we called (granted we only called 3) were fully booked up, we figured that on a tuesday that there would be plenty of room. We were wrong. That being the case we found accomodation at the "economical" lodge. Once we entered the room it smelled like wet towels, some quick thinking led to us turn on the A/C fan and open the windows to vent out the room. We went for supper at montana's steak house to give the room time to freshen up. Once we got back to the room it still smelled the same as it did when we left, however, now is was both -20 oC as well as being stinky.
Tomorrow we are heading to Winnipeg, Manitoba and with it entry into the central time zone (a 2 hour difference compared to New Brunswick). Mapquest tells us to expect a 9 hour trip. I picked up a satellite radio today so I shall have to get that activated and give it a test run. We are planning to stay at another hotel and hopefully we will have some more internet access to update the blogs. I shall leave you with on last shot of an old church on a peninsula just outside of Longlac. Until Later, R out.
I took this picture with the sepia option on my camera.
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