July 17th, Wednesday

Another day closer to home. We had a delicious dinner out last night at the Docks restaurant on the waterfront at Sault Ste Marie, a stroll along the waterfront and then a time relaxing in the lawn chairs at the campground.

My new friends - the bears and two little girls. Today was a trip along the #17 towards North Bay. As we travelled along with the sun shining and 35+ degrees Bernie asked if I recognized anything. I said no because the sun was shining :-). A few minutes later it started to rain heavy and it changed everything. We recognized the rocks and trees ! We stopped in North Bay at the Dionne Quints museum just as a heavy wind storm and rain arrived. So much dust and dirt was flying you could hardly see across the parking lot. The museum and their original house was very interesting but oh what a life they lived. Exploited by the government and so many people. I can remember Mom and Grammie talking about the Quints when I was a kid.

We stopped at one campground but they had no power because of the storm so we went another 60kms and found one on the Ottawa River at Stonecliff. Barbecue again and a great night for sitting outside. Along the way we saw a Mennonite couple cruising down the highway today