Crossing the border lulled me into a sense of comfort and I thought Sarnia was right around the corner. It wasn't...and there were lots of corners! Beautiful, rocky corners. People had stopped and made little Inukshuks along the way. I loved that having those little guides along the way, watching over us and making sure we were on the right path.
The highway was a two lane highway and I longed for a large motorway where I could do the speed limit and not be THAT van doing 90 and seemingly holding up all the other holidayers who zoomed past every time a passing lane appeared. My holiday is well planned but not so well timed that I had to maniacally drive in order to enjoy it. That's just ironic to me!
Thunder Bay was just a stop. A place to rest our heads and have dinner at 11:00 at night as I had forgotten about, yet another, time change! That's what holidays area ll about though...eating hot dogs and ice cream sandwiches at odd times.
We headed to Wawa. The name alone intrigued me. Our hotel was called The Mystic Isle and it was beside The White Fang. I couldn't help but think I was driving into an episode of Twin Peaks...the massively darkened trees from the rain, fog...random fog hovering on the road..just enough to make the hair on your arms tingle...and the stone roads leading up to your lodge!
We went to see the town of Wawa first. We did the obligatory photos of us standing under the largest Canada Goose and we loved it. There were theses colourful totems that are called Gitchigoomies. Gitchigoomee is the Ojibwa (Chippewa) word for Lake Superior.
Canadian folk singer Gordon Lightfoot sings about Lake Superior in his song THE WRECK OF THE EDMUND FITZGERALD: "The Legend lives on from the Chippewa on down of the big lake they called Gitchigoomee.
Wawa was a fun spot and I am glad we did it. How many kiwi kids are going to be able to say they've been to Wawa?
Our slideshow features the song, The Edmund Fitzgerald, by Gordon Lightfoot.
Wawa on PhotoPeach
Sunday, 13 July 2014
Welcome to Ontario
Zooming past the sign was a good thing as a wee bit of emotion welled up in me. I was in Ontario. You drive and drive and drive and then that feeling of home hits you. It wasn't that I felt fondly of Thunder Bay or Wawa...it was that I was from Ontario. This is the Canada I know and knew from my childhood.
I never travelled through these rocky terrains as a youngster either. We tried camping. We didn't succeed. We saw parts of Northern Ontario in cottage season but my adult eyes are very different and there are things I want to see.
Crossing the border lulled me into a sense of comfort and I thought Sarnia was right around the corner. It wasn't...and there were lots of corners! Beautiful, rocky corners. People had stopped and made little Inukshuks along the way. I loved that having those little guides along the way, watching over us and making sure we were on the right path.
The highway was a two lane highway and I longed for a large motorway where I could do the speed limit and not be THAT van doing 90 and seemingly holding up all the other holidayers who zoomed past every time a passing lane appeared. My holiday is well planned but not so well timed that I had to maniacally drive in order to enjoy it. That's just ironic to me!
Thunder Bay was just a stop. A place to rest our heads and have dinner at 11:00 at night as I had forgotten about, yet another, time change! That's what holidays area ll about though...eating hot dogs and ice cream sandwiches at odd times.
We headed to Wawa. The name alone intrigued me. Our hotel was called The Mystic Isle and it was beside The White Fang. I couldn't help but think I was driving into an episode of Twin Peaks...the massively darkened trees from the rain, fog...random fog hovering on the road..just enough to make the hair on your arms tingle...and the stone roads leading up to your lodge!
We went to see the town of Wawa first. We did the obligatory photos of us standing under the largest Canada Goose and we loved it. There were theses colourful totems that are called Gitchigoomies. Gitchigoomee is the Ojibwa (Chippewa) word for Lake Superior.
Canadian folk singer Gordon Lightfoot sings about Lake Superior in his song THE WRECK OF THE EDMUND FITZGERALD: "The Legend lives on from the Chippewa on down of the big lake they called Gitchigoomee.
Wawa was a fun spot and I am glad we did it. How many kiwi kids are going to be able to say they've been to Wawa?
Our slideshow features the song, The Edmund Fitzgerald, by Gordon Lightfoot.
Wawa on PhotoPeach
Crossing the border lulled me into a sense of comfort and I thought Sarnia was right around the corner. It wasn't...and there were lots of corners! Beautiful, rocky corners. People had stopped and made little Inukshuks along the way. I loved that having those little guides along the way, watching over us and making sure we were on the right path.
The highway was a two lane highway and I longed for a large motorway where I could do the speed limit and not be THAT van doing 90 and seemingly holding up all the other holidayers who zoomed past every time a passing lane appeared. My holiday is well planned but not so well timed that I had to maniacally drive in order to enjoy it. That's just ironic to me!
Thunder Bay was just a stop. A place to rest our heads and have dinner at 11:00 at night as I had forgotten about, yet another, time change! That's what holidays area ll about though...eating hot dogs and ice cream sandwiches at odd times.
We headed to Wawa. The name alone intrigued me. Our hotel was called The Mystic Isle and it was beside The White Fang. I couldn't help but think I was driving into an episode of Twin Peaks...the massively darkened trees from the rain, fog...random fog hovering on the road..just enough to make the hair on your arms tingle...and the stone roads leading up to your lodge!
We went to see the town of Wawa first. We did the obligatory photos of us standing under the largest Canada Goose and we loved it. There were theses colourful totems that are called Gitchigoomies. Gitchigoomee is the Ojibwa (Chippewa) word for Lake Superior.
Canadian folk singer Gordon Lightfoot sings about Lake Superior in his song THE WRECK OF THE EDMUND FITZGERALD: "The Legend lives on from the Chippewa on down of the big lake they called Gitchigoomee.
Wawa was a fun spot and I am glad we did it. How many kiwi kids are going to be able to say they've been to Wawa?
Our slideshow features the song, The Edmund Fitzgerald, by Gordon Lightfoot.
Wawa on PhotoPeach
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