A fuller post is coming once I have a chance to decompress, but we drove 856km today to get into Ottawa just before dusk. It was another beautiful (but long) day of driving! I really enjoyed the freeway through Sudbury, and the 17 east of North Bay. There’s really nothing out there except beautiful endless [...]
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We made it!
September 16th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Travel
Tags: moving·North Bay·Ottawa·Sudbury
What a difference a day makes!
September 15th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Travel
Today the weather completely improved over yesterday - we had fantastic blue skies the entire trip from Thunder Bay to Sault Ste. Marie. I felt for most of the trip like I was in a car commercial - shiny black car running along the mountain roads into the sunrise.
Northern Ontario is gorgeous, but a couple [...]
Tags: Kia·Lake Superior Provincial Park·Sault Ste. Marie·Wawa
Hiding out in Thunder Bay
September 14th, 2008 · No Comments · Travel
We’re in Thunder Bay, safe and sound, despite a harrowing after-dark drive through a torrential downpour an hour outside of our destination… it was a pretty low point in my decision-making history and left us both a little frazzled, so we’re spending an extra day here just to get some proper sleep and recover.
We got [...]
Tags: bad weather·Canadian Shield·lightning·poop·road trip
Our Road Trip Begins
September 12th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Travel
Natasha and I are on our way! Our plans are already a little behind schedule because the movers had to come late, but once they showed up everything went really smoothly. It helped that we started packing 2 weeks ago - pretty much everything was boxed up and ready to go. (And we even had [...]
Tags: boxes·moving·Ottawa·road trip·Winnipeg
Lots of Updates!
September 8th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Travel
In a quirk of incredibly bad timing, my service provider accidentally blew up my blog, again, plunging you all into radio silence while huge important life-changing things happened to me. I could approach all of this stuff as individual posts later, but here’s at least the gist of what’s going on:
I’ve left MTS and am [...]