Canada Road Trip 2023

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- 11. jun. 2023
- ☀️ 24 °C
- Høyde: 333 m
- Canada Manitoba Kiche Manitou Lake 49.6548, -99.25900349°39’17” N 99°15’32” W
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Whiteshell Provincial Park
11. juni 2023, Canada ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
We enjoyed some much needed nature therapy in our two-day stay at Whiteshell.

Biplane dragonflies led us down glittering forest paths. A butterfly and hummingbird amused us at a lake lookout. A deer in the early morning, grazing behind our van. The paths are so different from our mountain hikes, but beautiful.

All trails incorporate a piece of the Canadian shield as we walk along an exposed spine or scrabble up a rock face with a rope assist. It is tiger lily season right now and they are in their glory. In addition to other flowers captured digitally by Coleen who is also in her glory!Les mer
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Reisende Glad to see Coleen is still smiling . Love the wild flowers.
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- 13. jun. 2023, 09:52
- ☀️ 22 °C
- Høyde: 344 m
- Canada Ontario Rainy River District Fort Frances 48.608374, -93.43439248°36’30” N 93°26’4” W
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You Wear Fun Well
13. juni 2023, Canada ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
… said the store clerk after asking Coleen and I if we were retired. This trip has awakened our travel kraken. Each day a voyage of discovery, something new around the curve, a serendipitous conversation that sends us off the beaten path. Life is good and fun is fashionable.Les mer
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Reisende Thanks for the update. Your posts are always an event in our house.
15.06.2023SvarOversette
Reisende I love your Caption . . . Yes you both show your retirement well. Great pictures. Nice you can see so much nature. We also enjoy following your adventures.
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Reisende On the road again and isn't that just fine.
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- 14. jun. 2023, 22:14
- ☁️ 9 °C
- Høyde: 231 m
- Canada Ontario Thunder Bay District Marie Louise Lake 48.36661, -88.80305348°21’60” N 88°48’11” W
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I Gave at the Office
14. juni 2023, Canada ⋅ ☁️ 9 °C
The mosquitoes in northern Ontario are not buying this line. They come in swarms on the trail, and, when we are in the parked van, eagerly await an open door, their evil little faces looking inside for their next meal. It’s apparently a worse than average year for the buggers. Blood spatter experts would have a field day examining the interior of our van. The massacre goes both ways.Les mer
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Reisende Where is the Terry Fox statue? Loved the nature pics.
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Reisende Just east of Thunder Bay. It most impressive.
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Reisende Yeah it seems mosquitoes and / or black flies wait for Canadian summers. But the parks look great and well worth the challenge.
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- 15. jun. 2023, 20:14
- ☀️ 17 °C
- Høyde: 286 m
- Canada Ontario Rainbow Falls 48.841412, -87.39408748°50’29” N 87°23’39” W
Dag 17
Explore
15. juni 2023, Canada ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C
… we continue to explore Northern Ontario, taking side trips off the TransCanada today to visit the jaw-dropping Ouimet Canyon, flip a loonie at the Nipigon Bridge (the loon won .. so southern route it is), and crossing the 49th parallel on a river hike.
On a sad note, a small town grocery store’s ice cream refrigeration unit malfunctioned, leaving empty freezer shelves and our dairy hopes dashed. We were crushed … if only ever so briefly.Les mer
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- 16. jun. 2023, 19:25
- ☀️ 13 °C
- Høyde: 197 m
- Canada Ontario Pic River 48.593657, -86.2972448°35’37” N 86°17’50” W
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Dag 18
Of Rocks and Bears
16. juni 2023, Canada ⋅ ☀️ 13 °C
While driving to a waterfall today we saw a momma black bear and her three cubs on the side of the forest-lined road. They scampered off into the bush and climbed up a tree faster than a jack rabbit on a first date. Yet to see a moose except posted on highway signs as a “Night Danger”, and all manner of sculptures, T-shirts and the like.
For rock enthusiasts, and I count myself in that group, Pebble Beach at Marathon is heaven. For centuries, Lake Superior has tumbled these stones into smooth, roundish rocks — hardly pebbles at all. So many rocks … that will have to wait for our return trip home.
We rewarded our rock restraint with a San Pellegrino float. Sooo good.Les mer
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Reisende Geologists say these boulders are 2.7 billion years old.
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Reisende These are perfect ! Oh wouldn't my garden be happy .
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Reisende Maybe heavy on the gas bill but you could load in a few for your return trip.
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Reisende That is the plan …
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- 16. jun. 2023, 21:45
- 🌙 10 °C
- Høyde: 182 m
- Canada Ontario Pic River 48.592936, -86.29600948°35’35” N 86°17’46” W
Dag 18
Forest Sounds
16. juni 2023, Canada ⋅ 🌙 10 °C
Heard today on our 6-hour hike to the White River Suspension Bridge in Pukaskwa National Park … The murmur of a distant waterfall, the click clacking of our pole tips on centuries-old rock, the twittering of birds, the whisper of wind in the tree canopy, the cracking of birchbark sheaves underfoot, the growling behind me, the little yelp of hysteria jumping out of my throat … (to be continued)Les mer
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- 19. jun. 2023, 21:23
- ☀️ 20 °C
- Høyde: 245 m
- Canada Ontario Cedar Heights 46.541397, -84.31674746°32’29” N 84°19’0” W
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Ruffled Feathers
19. juni 2023, Canada ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
… so I may have exaggerated a bit in my last cliffhanger post. It was less a growl from a bear and more like a squawk from a pissed off momma grouse. This was the third encounter with the northern Ontario ruffed grouse that got our hearts a racin’. Puffed out neck and tail feathers, chasing us back up the trail, the grouse showed Coleen and I that she was “large and in charge”.
Having been chased around our van in the foothills of the Rockies a couple of seasons ago, I gave this momma grouse the respect and distance she wanted.Les mer
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Reisende Gayle and I had one chase us on a hike in Yoho near Field. Scared the kaka out of me. The porcupine was cute and cuddly but momma grouse was scary. :)
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- 20. jun. 2023, 14:32
- ☀️ 22 °C
- Høyde: 199 m
- Canada Ontario Thessalon Thessalon River 46.263462, -83.56984746°15’48” N 83°34’11” W
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Small Towns
20. juni 2023, Canada ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
Small towns … oh how I love them. Whether it’s Carberry, Maple Creek, or Thessalon, there is a peaceful and nostalgic feel to them. Yesterday, in Thessalon, we were able to locate the sister of a Lethbridge acquaintance by asking three random strangers, the last one who knew our friend. So Isobel, we found your sister’s place but she was not at home.

As I looked down Main Street and saw some of the boarded up windows, rusting signs and crumbling brickwork. I am trying to imagine these towns in their heyday, when new Buick cars rambled down the streets, men tipping their hats to the ladies. After a Sunday service, the priest welcoming the parishioners on the front steps of a century old Church.

There’s still a sliver of that hometown, down to earth sensibility of the place, but it is vanishing as well, which is sad.Les mer
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- 21. jun. 2023, 14:11
- ☀️ 30 °C
- Høyde: 278 m
- Canada Ontario Greater Sudbury 46.493303, -80.99980346°29’36” N 80°59’59” W
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Reading on the Road
21. juni 2023, Canada ⋅ ☀️ 30 °C
Our mission to go to an independent bookseller in each province continued yesterday in Sudbury with Bay’s Used Books. We dutifully donned our Analog Books t-shirts and took pictures in front of their wonderful two-story murals.

We entered a warren of bookshelves, nooks, and crannies, with the written word surrounding us. Coleen got a map to guide her though this literary labyrinth. I eventually found her in Canadiana with the help of security cam footage and an employee.

Unlike the resident cat Hugo at Analog Books, Bay’s Used Books’ feline mascot is an orange plushy named Crookshanks. Delightful hour or so surrounded by books. We are starting to acquire our own library in the van where space is at a premium.Les mer
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Reisende Looks like a sister to Coleen.
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Reisende I actually didn't know you liked bookstores and small towns. The bookstores can be very relaxing. The small towns, anywhere, are often little curiosities.
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- 23. jun. 2023, 13:34
- ☁️ 28 °C
- Høyde: 115 m
- Canada Ontario Mississippi Mills Almonte Rapids 45.225239, -76.19787645°13’31” N 76°11’52” W
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Distant Relatives
23. juni 2023, Canada ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C
What’s that old saw? When people are doing their family tree, there’s a whole lot of pruning going on. But in this case I truly am related to the inventor of basketball — James Naismith — who is celebrated here in his hometown of Almonte.

My great, great grandfather Allan Paul emigrated to Canada from Scotland pre-Confederation. He took a fancy to a Jean Naismith from Almonte and the Paul line continued.

What would have been a wee little town back in the day now boasts grand brick churches, a bustling little downtown, and a baker named Bob. These small towns are a joy to explore.Les mer
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Reisende That’s pretty neat to read this. This is what your journey is all about. Enjoying your stops and reflections.
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Reisende And this is a part of family history that is new to me. What fun !
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