07 August 2008

18 July 08

18 July 08, Friday

On this two lane highway this far in the north there is a lot of work to maintain the road. We were constantly held up by construction; sometimes only a couple of kilometres apart and each time a long waiting period. When we could drive, we enjoyed the very beautiful “North of Superior” scenery. Too bad it was often very foggy, the temperature reaching a low of 11ºC. The temperature was so low, I was thinking I may have to follow the signs for trucks in the winter along the road: “Chain up area”; snow may be coming down.

Signs had advertised a climate controlled mall at Marathon, Ont  so we decided to drive into town and check it out. It was a modern mall with two stores empty and for rent and one of the anchor stores on “Closing out Sale” . It must be very tough to make a living up here; most Motels and Gas stations along the road are already closed and “For Sale”.

When we came the White Lake Provincial Park my first question was if they have warm showers. We even got the only campsite from which you could see the water, # 81; the mosquitoes were bearable; this was actually the only time on our whole trip I can say that there were mosquitoes.

N 48º 41,590’   W 85º 38.763’