On the road to Alaska - Maine to Ontario

We've been on the road for a week (we left home May 11).  We crossed into Canada at a small town called Coburn Gore, picked up the Trans-Canada Highway near Montreal, and are now in Thunder Bay, Ontario on the northwest side of Lake Superior.  The weather has been mixed.  A fair amount of rain and it has been pretty chilly - mostly in the 40's or low 50's during the day and into the 30's or very low 40's at night.  We did have one night below freezing.  It was 30º (outside) when we woke up - there was frost on the skylights and the puddles all had a thin layer of ice.  We've seen our first moose (sorry no picture), stopped at our first brewery, and made our first (and hopefully last) unscheduled stop at a Ford dealer.  Despite the rain and the truck issue,  we've been having a fun time.  The camper is working great and we are very comfortable, even when it is cold and wet outside. 

 The first brewery was in VanKleek Hill, Ontario

We stopped in Sudbury, Ontario to visit a museum called Dynamic Earth which is a museum about the mining done in the area.  At one time, the Sudbury area supplied 91% of the world's nickel.

Brett and the Big Nickel at Dynamic Earth

We spent a couple of days driving along Lake Superior but half of the time did not see much as there was a fair amount of fog.  We did see icebergs floating in the lake and a couple of places where there was still snow in the woods. 

Lake Superior - Pancake Bay Provincial Park, Ontario

Pancake Bay Provincial Park, Ontario

Icebergs in Lake Superior

Driftwood - Neys Provincial Park, Ontario

A few other scenes from the week

Fellow travelers along the Trans-Canada Highway.  

White River, Ontario was the original home of the real Winnie the Pooh.  A soldier from England bought Winnie from a trapper in White River and took him back to England where he lived at the London Zoo,  One of the children who used to visit Winnie was Christopher Robin Milne.  His father A.A. Milne wrote the stories about Christopher Robin and Pooh for his son.

Aguasabon Falls and Gorge, Terrace Bay, Ontario

Fort William Historical Park is a re-creation of a fur trading fort that was run by the North West Company (a rival of the Hudson Bay Company).  We spent a fun after new touring the 40+ buildings.

Apothecary shop at Fort William Historical Park, Thunder Bay, Ontario. 

Tomorrow, after some grocery shopping in Thunder Bay, we will continue our trek north and west.  We expect to cross in to Manitoba (and the central time zone) on Tuesday assuming the weather doesn't interfere - they are predicting snow for tomorrow at our planned stopping point!