Whew! Today was a really long day. We left Duluth at 8.45 and drove all along the western, northern and eastern shores of Lake Superior, and arrived here at Sault Ste. Marie at about 9.30pm. Originally we had intended to drive thru Michigan and Chicago, but we thought the drive would be really pretty along the wild Canadian countryside. The drive from Duluth up to Thunder Bay was gorgeous! We were driving right along the lake. Once we passed Thunder Bay, it sort of became pretty typical. We reached the US/Canada border at 11.30am and wouldn't you know it, they kept us there for about a half hour...we had to go into the building and meet the immigration officer and answer their umpteen questions, where are you going? what's in the car?...blah blah...blah!!! I won't go into too much detail.....it will just make me mad!
Unfortunately the speed limit in Canada was 55 mph so we didn't have time to stop and really look at too much. After that it was a dullish drive cos we couldn't see the lake. We did see some cool animals every now and then cross the street...a moose and then later this evening, a wolf! Rajiv had burned us the entire "Fabric of the Cosmos" by Brian Greene on 19 CD's, so we started listening to them. It was all about quantum mechanics and physics and space/time continuum and I actually found it more interesting than the scenery! Either I'm really brilliant or the scenery was deadly dull!!!! We listened to 5 out of the 19!! Also, not a single rest area along the way...its really that wild and uninhabitated! All you have is little roads leading off the freeway into the forest and there you have it....his and hers honey buckets!!
Got into Soo (Sault Ste Marie is affectionately known as Soo) at 9.30pm. All restaurants were shut down so we ran to the grocery store and bought some soup and stuff!
I'll take some good pics of the lake tomorrow.
Travel tip: Audio books are a great way to compensate for boring scenery!
Film clip of the moose on the run
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