Day 1 of our trip...

Well...this is the first day of our trip. Annie and I got up around 7 this morning and we completed packing our Honda CRV in record time. We had packed most of our stuff already the night before. The weather was just perfect, bright sunshine and around 16 deg when we left home around 7:30. Today is the last day of the Victoria day long weekend and we were in luck...almost no traffic on the road. Even the 400 was smooth sailing. The cottage traffic had not yet started and even then was going in the opposite direction. We made good time along this by now familiar route and quickly settled into our familiar routine. In Perry Sound we made a pit stop and fuelled up the Honda and ourselves (coffee). The last time we saw a black bear on Hwy 69 north of Perry Sound and this time we saw another one, albeit dead unfortunately. We reached Sudbury in good time and stopped for lunch at Timmy's.

Along Hwy 17, we stopped for a break at a tiny town called Spanish. It's claim to fame is being right on an inlet off Lake Huron and boasting a marina. There was a neat look-out point beside the marina as well that we climbed. It was about 150ft high or so. After climbing a lot of steps we got to the top and enjoyed the vista. There were a few boats out but it was far from busy. By now, all the holiday people had probably set off back home to Sudbury or Sault Ste. Marie. Did I mention that by now it was quite hot? The temperature climbed to 29 deg.

but it felt more like 34 by now. We're not complaining though. In any case, the Honda is equipped with A/C so we were fine as long as we were driving.

We got to Sault Ste. Marie in good time and checked into the hotel by 4:30. After settling in, we had a nice dinner at one of favourite restaurants, Swiss Chalet. We then decided to have a look at the locks at the boardwalk on the waterfront. We enjoyed stretching our legs a bit, but cut it a bit short since the temperature was still a stifling, humid 28 deg. The wind was nice though when we walked back to the car.

Anyway, nothing much exciting for today which is good. Everything went smoothly, the Honda just hummed along and we're just relaxing. BTW, there were an inordinate number of OPP cops out to ticket the unwary speeding motorists today. I guess Mr. Fantino put a lot of extra cops out for the holiday weekend. We decided not to speed too much all day because of this. No more than 5-8 km over the limit this time.

So that's it for now. Tomorrow we hope to arrive in Thunder Bay at the Schenks (Annie's niece) where we'll stay overnight. You'll not get a BLOG for tomorrow, but I'll catch up on Wednesday again.