17 July 08, Thursday
At 04:00 some kid felt like kicking the rear of our Sprinter and after being awake we drove on at 05:00 early in the morning. Kenora is a beautiful vacation spot with lots of lakes, woods, rocks, a typical northern Ontario holiday spot; I understand most cottages here belong to Winnipeggers.
We went grocery shopping here in Kenora and while putting things away, Socky was running around on the floor and then he had an accident and died right away. It made us very sad; he was such a pet for us. He knew nothing else but us and the Sprinter. He had started to fly and I trimmed his wings so he could not get away on us but he was able to fly inside the Sprinter.
We gave him a proper burial, even with flowers.
Again we managed to drive over 600 km today, it was a cold day and we ended up in Thunderbay, Ont.
N 48º 24.788’ W 89º 14.501’