Part 7: Ontario
we only drove through the southwestern part of Ontario, and it still took 2.5 days, it really is big
the first night we stayed in the town of Kenora, not far from the MB line
Kenora had another nice skatepark in town
and the hotel we stayed in had a police convention (Ontario Provincial Police) going on, which led to the singing of a Naughty by Nature song
here's a building in Kenora with a cool eagle
we also stayed in an awesome sixties cylinder shaped hotel on a pier on Lake of the Woods
http://book.bestwestern.com/bestwestern/productInfo.do?propertyCode=66066
then we drove to Thunder Bay....fairly big city, but kind of dreary....maybe we were just there on the wrong day, i know the weather was really bad, cold and foggy, and the downtown was cut off from their waterfront by a railroad, so it looked like they had yet to solve that problem that Winnipeg already has....but they did have a pedestrian bridge with flowers going over it
we stayed in Nipigon that night, and it was really foggy.....the next day we saw a terrible accident where a truck that had been carrying fireworks had missed a curve in the road in the fog and hit a rock face.....there wasnt much left of it, it was sad
western Canada is full of Inusuk, or directional totems that are either permanent statues or temporary stacks of stones that people stack up on the side of the road. In the past people would have used them to mark trails or hunting areas, and used them by looking throught the middle of one Inusuk and seeing the next one.
we also stopped for a while in Wawa (not the gas station, but the town is named for the Algonquin word for goose, which is also what the gas station is named after) they have a lot of goose statues, which I posted pictures of three years ago, but here they are again
and here's the Magpie High Falls, which is not only beautiful, but also generates all the power for Wawa and Michipicoten
This is from Lake Superior PP.
Here's a picture my Mom took on Sault Sainte Marie, it looks cool, and is pretty much the weather we had through most of Ontario
next post: the last leg of the trip
the first night we stayed in the town of Kenora, not far from the MB line
Kenora had another nice skatepark in town
and the hotel we stayed in had a police convention (Ontario Provincial Police) going on, which led to the singing of a Naughty by Nature song
here's a building in Kenora with a cool eagle
we also stayed in an awesome sixties cylinder shaped hotel on a pier on Lake of the Woods
http://book.bestwestern.com/bestwestern/productInfo.do?propertyCode=66066
then we drove to Thunder Bay....fairly big city, but kind of dreary....maybe we were just there on the wrong day, i know the weather was really bad, cold and foggy, and the downtown was cut off from their waterfront by a railroad, so it looked like they had yet to solve that problem that Winnipeg already has....but they did have a pedestrian bridge with flowers going over it
we stayed in Nipigon that night, and it was really foggy.....the next day we saw a terrible accident where a truck that had been carrying fireworks had missed a curve in the road in the fog and hit a rock face.....there wasnt much left of it, it was sad
western Canada is full of Inusuk, or directional totems that are either permanent statues or temporary stacks of stones that people stack up on the side of the road. In the past people would have used them to mark trails or hunting areas, and used them by looking throught the middle of one Inusuk and seeing the next one.
we also stopped for a while in Wawa (not the gas station, but the town is named for the Algonquin word for goose, which is also what the gas station is named after) they have a lot of goose statues, which I posted pictures of three years ago, but here they are again
and here's the Magpie High Falls, which is not only beautiful, but also generates all the power for Wawa and Michipicoten
This is from Lake Superior PP.
Here's a picture my Mom took on Sault Sainte Marie, it looks cool, and is pretty much the weather we had through most of Ontario
next post: the last leg of the trip
