Day 47 Fri-Endless road, Endless Lakes!

I’ll be honest I am over the road trip….it’s been a long day of over 800k minimal stops….Not an animal insight, but yes we had wildflowers and lake views none stop all day…
Because we are clocking up so many ks so quickly even trying to remember what we saw, where we stopped is all starting to flowing into the next…
The motel last night even though squeezy rooms were nicely done up….all looked very fresh and clean…….had to laugh when I went into the bathroom as it was exactly the same as my old yellow bath room sink, tub and loo…. They may have been a bit different in shape but they definitely same era….

Made our own Brekky today no add ons from here, then hit the Hwy to see stunning wild flowers and endless lake scenes.,,, we realised it looked different about 1/2 through today….last time we headed up this Hwy was with thick thick fog…..funny thing was we had heaps of fog in the earlier part of the morning…the fog would go just like that then come over a rise and it was thick pea soup again….

The sights do look different going back the other way….it did however become mundane after a few hours of the same, same…
Heaps of small communities dotted along the Lake shores or just off on the Hwy…broken down sheds, old cars… heaps of Vans parked up similar scenes to what we have witnessed before…
We stopped at Winnie The Poos home town of White River…. For a cuppa….we did discover later in the day that the internet and phone lines were down right across parts of Canada..couldn’t get any reception, still none tonight but do have hotel wifi..so guessing our provider is a cheap one and hasn’t had support in place for it’s customers…

We lunched at Burger King with the crispy chicken roll, chips and a drink….easy, simple and quick….

There seemed to be a huge amount of people on the Hwy later this arvo…not sure why…but guessing something is happening this weekend…

The roads in Ontario certainly aren’t as good as the other Provence’s….heaps of road works and stops happening but not a lot of good outcomes… a bit like QLD a quick fix no long term good outcomes…
The views over Lake Superior were magical…a soft hue hang over most of the scenes we saw at the different bays as we skirted the Hwy back to Kitchener…

Town after town some looked like they were on the up and up others looks run down sad and forgotten…

We made it to Sudbury which as the below describes is rich with natural resources…it has 9 operating mines, 2 mills, 2 smelters, a nickel refinery….one of the largest mining capitals in the world….it also has what’s called Sudbury Basin which is the 3rd largest crater on Earth….it is also contains 330 lakes more than any other area in Canada…it is also 1/3 largest French speaking population in. Canada outside of Quebec….

So here we are one more night to get to Tim and Jess’s for a few days before we head off again..we have had no issues at all with our huge car at all this trip….however we got a good size stone chip on the windscreen today..that’s a pain…it has a review Monday and resign for the rest of our time here…not sure how we go with this happening….😩😩😩
Got a message from Tim later this arvo both he and Jess are really sick! Found it hard getting home due to the way they were! Did 2 Covid tests so far both NEG! So the hard guessing it’s a bad cold! We had already started discussing it, but then Tim suggested we not come to their place in case we get it! I had already talked to John about the fact we can’t afford to get sick at this stage! Doesn’t mean we will miss it, but being in close contact will mean we would nearly 90% get it! So as sad as we are to stay somewhere else, it’s best for them to get good rest and us to try and miss it!
Looked at Airbnbs but too dear, so we booked another Hotel in Kitchener for 3 nights… the car as I said had to be seen and a Service done, or we could have continued on! Anyway looks like more Hotels/Motels for the rest of this trip!!😩

Dinner was in the hotel residence tonight….All you can eat fish and chips….and they had a couple of other choices….John bit the fish and chips, I got the Caesar salad…so we could shared the 2 dishes….It came with one piece of fish and I thought that’s not much..but it was more than enough with the salad….the lady offered us another which we took…but with so much salad left over we now have enough for another meal 🥘…So guess it’s Caesar salad with cold meat at some stage….keep costs down in our next accommodation, now we are staying in a Hotel in a Kitchener while Tim and Jess get well…we leave to head up the east coast on the 12th, more hotels….so badly want a stove and a toaster to cook my own food….but the Airbnbs aren’t all that cheap…it is what it is…..I am sure I’ll only be home and bit and wish I could travel again…but I will admit, and I don’t usually say this on a trip Home is looking good….Read more