Blogs from Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, North America - page 9

Woke up and left Kap early, en route to Thunder Bay. Driving from Kap to Hearst was pretty uneventful besides the MASSIVE WASHOUT. It was like some dinosaur came and bit a chunk out four feet deep in every direction. Sorry, no pics. I'm still really slow with the camera..I missed taking photos of like 5 giant plastic animals..it seems most every town in Northern Ontario has one. We stopped to look at the spectacular Palisades at Lake Nipigon. The palisades are impressive walls of rock with juts and struts. I have a (bad) photo of them on the flickr site as well as the plaque they had up. There was a waterfall as well but I couldn't find a good angle so I didn't even bother. On the other side of the highway was the ... read more

Hello Everyone! I've finally gotten settled here in Helsinki so I will start posting all my pictures and notes. Feel free to read as much or as little as you want... you can even just look at the pictures if you'd like. I'll try to keep in touch with everyone, but there's much to see here and I may not be able to write to everyone individually. I started my journey by travelling home to Kakabeka for Christmas. It was a short visit, but I got to see (almost) everyone. Arrived on the 21st and stayed till the 26th. Unfortunately did not see much snow as climate change seems to be having a big effect on Canada this year. Christmas Eve was at Grandma and Grandpa Glenn's as usual for the traditional talent show and roast ... read more

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 ... read more

On my tour to the outhouse at four in the morning, I saw the Northern Lights displaying their wayward glow against a starry sky. I haven’t seen them for over a decade. Last night under their glow I found myself back on the hill below our house in Calgary, with my sons Sean and Cameron, sitting in the snow and watching an exceptional display of the Lights with cones of red and green exploding above our heads, thinking that the rays would touch down around us any second. That was the best display of the lights I ever saw. Back in bed, I thought about my plans for the new day and realized how stupid they were. What was the rush to get out of here anyway? Ron had offered to have me stay for a ... read more

Motorhome News from North America 14. 5th - 15th June 2006 Saskatchewan - Land of Living Skies The tree-lined streets of Moose Jaw City hide a dark history of bygone days. Back in the 1920s, pool-rooms, brothels, gambling houses and Chinese opium dens greeted visitors as they stepped from the train - and Al Capone is said to have stashed much of his bootleg rum in the neighbouring caves. It’s changed a bit these days and, apart from us, just a few other people of distinction have come riding into town in more recent times. A plaque in the park commemorates the visit of HRH Edward the Earl of Wessex in 2003 when the city celebrated its centenary. His mum, Her Majesty The Queen, came too, in 1978 on the town’s 75th birthday. Moose Jaw itself ... read more