August 18 - Leaving Stillwater
Looking out at Lake Superior is like looking out at the ocean.  It is one huge lake.  I believe the leaves are changing already.  There are an awful lot of yellow leaves and even a few red ones.  I think we might be in for an early winter.

Marathon is where we were planning on spending the night last night but it was so windy and Dalton didn't feel like driving any further.  We stopped there today, I thought it would be a cute little town by the lake.  Not so.  It is a dying Pulp Mill Town, apparently the Mill closed about 3 years ago.  We did our part to support it, bought groceries and burgers.

We just passed the Town of White Water where the gas is $144.9...not stopping here!

Old Woman Bay on Lake Superior - we came around a corner and before us was the most beautiful sandy beach, you could have been in the Caribbean the water was aquamarine, probably would have froze the balls off a brass monkey, but it looked awesome.  We just turned 3000 miles (approx 4700 km).

We came upon three little lakes two on the north side of the highway and one on the south, very small lakes, the one on the south side was smaller than the other two...Dad, Mom and Baby Lakes, honest, would I lie. 

We arrived at Sault St. Marie, population 75,000 and the home of Roberta Bondar.  The gas is $133.5, we were tempted to cross the border but we didn't want to bother with the hassle so we paid the price and whined about it. 

We went to a Walmart Lot because we want to get an early start in the morning, took the car off only to find that the locking mechanism on the hitch pin was broken so we headed to Canadian Tire to get fixings to replace it.  That was a half hour job that we weren't expecting.  Off to a little pub for dinner and an early night.  

Sorry, no pictures today!!