To Sudbury and TBay

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The trip to Sudbury was uneventful. Both Geoff and I had been to Sudbury before so there were really no surprises. We had decided to leave on the Monday instead of early Tuesday morning because we would have had to make it to Thunder Bay in one day. I’m glad we decided to do that because the drive to T-
Bay turned out to be arduous, even with a few hours taken off. Geoff and I were both really surprised not only about the amount of time it took to travel there, but also the scenery leading up to Thunder Bay. The drive was the longest so far but it was also the most beautiful. I had no idea that area was so hilly. The fall colours added to the beauty of the scenery and I had a hard time not taking out my camera at every bend. The hills also gave us a chance to see how the truck performed hauling the trailer on more mountainous terrain… something that we are anticipating in the Rockies, of course. If I were to describe the drive I would say it was “technical”. We were on a hilly, undivided and usually only two-lane highway in moose territory. Fortunately we didn’t see any moose, but we did see a lot of hunters dressed in their bright orange hunting hats with rifles in hand wandering Highway 17 for a place to enter the woods. The only moose we saw had seen better days — it was strapped to the top of a pick up truck with its head and full rack on top of the cab facing forward. We pulled into the Travelodge by the airport after driving through the first of the inclement weather we would experience in the next couple of days… I’ll describe that little bit later on.

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Photos

approaching tbay
We were surprised at how scenic the drive was

bears are so cuddly...
...when they're inanimate. And for sale.

wind chimes
Geoff trying to get the wind chimes to do their thing.

bridge!
Some more scenery from Hwy 17 W

clouds
some more scenery from our drive from sudbury to tbay. beauty

guzzler
the truck is very thirsty. this was at a husky station in the superior region of Northern Ontario on Hwy 17

moose ahead!
we were deep in moose country. these signs appeared every so often. The hunters in the area put figured that if moose are crossing the road, they might be in the woods nearby... At dusk they parked their trucks on the side of the highway and hiked into the woods with their rifles.