One the Road Again

 

Here we are on the road again off to see another part of our great country.  Today, we are heading east and without fail, the wind is from the east.  The traffic is relatively light so the going is good.  We arrive in Kenora and find a large, quiet spot at a trail head where we spend the night.  We might as well loosen up the legs a bit so we head down the trail for a short ways – at least until we arrived at the “turtle pond”. 

We walked along a river, or a channel joining two of the numerous lakes in the area enjoying the scenery. 

As we were preparing supper, some deer came out of the bush, looked at us, and then wandered back into the  bush.

Along the highway, there are constant warnings about moose.  We did see three of them, but none were as mean looking as the one portrayed on the highway sign.

Bridges can often be quite interesting although most of them now are pretty plain and you hardly know that you are on a bridge.  That is unless they are doing construction on them, which we hit quite a number of, and you get to wait as it is one lane of traffic – slow traffic.  We did find a rather pretty one near Thunder Bay.

One night was spent in White River.  Now I learned a little bit of history - White River is the home of Winnie the Pooh which I did not know. 

Unfortunately, it must also be home to the meanest black flies in the country.  We went for a walk down a neat wooden sidewalk

and it seemed that these flies were relentless in swarming around our face.  We met one of the locals and made mention of it and his comment was “they are just annoying.  At least they don’t bite like mosquitoes”.  Wrong – I spent the next couple of days scratching as they do bite!

The scenery on the trip down is amazing.  First you go through Lake of the Woods area and then travel along the shores of Lake Superior and every turn is breath-taking.  It really has some spectacular scenery.

After three and a half hard days, we arrived in Pickering to visit with our friend Janet.  It was great to see her again after a fair number of years and of course, there is also a whirlwind of activity.  We drove out to Port Parry, which is a historic little town with a number of boutique shops and a lovely drive.

A couple of evenings were spent at the local legion – one as we watched folks play darts and another evening, we were entertained by karaoke.  On top of that we won a 50-50 draw as well $25 on a ticket – sure can’t beat that!!  We had an incredible supper at Dawn and Jason’s home – brisket which he cooked for sixteen hours – which was superb, and of course all the trimmings.  It gave us a great chance to visit with all the family.

And sometimes you come across something unique - this is what found this week.

Tomorrow our trip continues as we continue east.  Thanks for stopping by and hope you can follow along with us.  Have a great week!!