Sunday, August 19, 2012

August 19 - Leaving Sault St. Marie
10 degrees and heavy fog, wearing long pants and a sweater - NOT happy.  Just realized we have been on the road, or at least we left home a month ago yesterday. 

Much happier now - noon and 21 degrees.  There was an accident on the highway, oncoming traffic is coming through about 4 cars at a time.  We, however, are sitting still.  We sat in the line up for about 1 1/2 hours before we finally got to the accident scene.  Don't know how it happened but a car in our lane was front end first into a rock face, there were no other cars in sight.  It had a buckled front end and all the seat belts had deployed.  There were First Responders there but nothing much was happening, looked like they were waiting for a tow truck.  When we past we check the odometer and the oncoming line-up was 4 miles long.  There was also a long line behind us. 

We are staying at Trailside Park, it is literally in the bush, surrounded by three lakes.  Very secluded so should be really quiet tonight.  It will take us about an hour to bet back on the highway, especially if we follow the GPS.  It seems to like to take us out of the way by several miles.  We keep going in circles.  The park is very large, provides electricity and water, however, you have to drive to the dump site.  This place is full of tenters.  Ontarians are a hearty lot.  We don't even want to sit out side because the black flies will carry us away.  We are giving BCers a bad name....

1 comment:

  1. I remember the huge, hungry flies in Ontario. Not a good memory either.

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