09/30/14 
OK, we’ll stop counting the days after today.
Today was a superb day, with bright sunshine and colours all around. The strongest mix of colours (orange/yellow/red/green) was near the Soo and soon after there were varied shades of green from evergreens with rich gold colours from the deciduous trees intermingled. Trees continued to become more sparse and shorter as we headed north to Wawa then on to Marathon, were we are spending the night 20 km’s north of it. We are 270 km’s east of Thunder Bay. 20 deg C when we arrived late afternoon.
We both shared driving duties again today, and for those that know us best, Kathy’s “passenger” mannerisms subsided a bit, but she prefers the control feel with the steering wheel in HER hand. We continue to “adjust” to life on the road.
Today, was quite windy and full of fairly steep roads to ascend and descend, and we went with the flow of the steady stream of truckers using this only northern route. Thank goodness there are extra passing lanes every 10 km’s or so, so the slower traffic can keep right.
Jazz thinks she has died and gone to heaven as she was given a doggie treat at a gas station and also given one when we checked into the camp grounds. She is adjusting to the RV as well, preferring to by right up with us between the cab seats.
Speaking of gas, and I’m not going to speak about it again, we got close to empty today and put in 175 litres at 1.41 per. You do the math; I left my calculator at home! CPC Pumps (my former employer) needs to ramp up production on a couple more petroleum pumps to keep up with this new demand on gasoline. Paul, start ordering the components!!
The first few days have been busy, but we have a goal to be in Banff next Wednesday, October 8th to spend about 6 nights in that area. We’re just trying to keep ahead of ‘ol man winter. The trek will be broken up by a 3 night stay this weekend in Grenfell, SK with good friends (from Burlington) that will be back visiting their home town as we pass through. Supposedly, we are going to learn a bit about life in the Prairies. Clearly, time will tell!
Off to Thunder Bay tomorrow where we’ll spend the night. It will be a much shorter driving day to allow some exploring time.
That’s it from the perch today.
Very nice. I will look forward to your blogs.
Safe travels.
Good to hear from you guys. I’ve been non-stop thinking about you and hoping everything has been going well. Still upset I couldn’t fit in to the rv, but oh well, guess I’ll get over it. 🙂
We have good friends who live in Dryden. Have always wanted to visit them there. If you see Rod & Judy, say “hi” from us. lol
Travel safe. Love ya’s. xo
Love reading your blogs and hearing all about your adventure! It sounds wonderful and romantic :-). I love the addition of pictures too. What a beautiful country we live in, especially at this time of year! Your goals are lofty but with two drivers, you can do it! Stay safe and well. Love hearing everything.
All is well here. I’m stripping wallpaper in my LR – FYI
Great blog, Rob and Kathy! Its almost like tagging along…but not needing any gravol! Lily will be amazed when I show her those rock formations. Happy Thanksgiving on the road!
Love Dianne