Northern Trails And Tales

We covered a lot of ground today leaving Petawawa a little after 9:00 AM and traveling roughly along the Ottawa River to North Bay and Lake Nipissing and on into Sudbury before making a decision to push ahead since it was only about 2:00 PM. We are now sitting in a campground on the banks of the Serpent River where it empties into Lake Huron….. We spent the day looking for places to link up with the internet but were totally unsuccessful. The campground does have a modem, so tomorrow I hope to send two e-mails. I’m avoiding the blog, afraid I’ll mess things up and all of you will get nothing…… The days are developing a routine of sorts. We get up around 6:00, have coffee and breakfast, try to catch the Sox score (though only the first campground had cable TV), and then pack and hook-up the trailer. By the time we get on the road, it’s generally after 9:00. We spend a lot of time at truck stops buying diesel. We spend a lot of time viewing scenery you wouldn’t walk ten feet to see. But then there are some wonderful things to see and it makes it worthwhile, though by mid afternoon we’re ready to call it a day. The trailer isn’t all that difficult to handle and after a while you truly do forget it’s there— which probably ain’t such a good thing, either. I mean we’re still rookies and have to keep that in mind. We then find a campground, set up the trailer, and start supper… We meet a few folks who have no homes but their trailer and who simply follow their wanderlust. At every campground so far we’ve met people who are staying for the summer. As you can imagine, most, but not all, are retired. Some don’t approve of George Bush. I don’t expect that we’ll meet many who do…. Tomorrow morning, it’s on to Sault Ste. Marie. It’s a short jaunt of just over 100 miles so we get a break from driving and maybe a chance to do something touristry….. Although we were followed about a quarter mile by on Ontario patrolman, there is no reason to think we’re being tailed. I suspect we’ll make Alaska after all….