Blog day 2
Sault Ste. Marie to Thunder Bay
Some bumps on the road.
Who would have known there was mountains here? It certainly didn't scream out at us from the maps. You'd think with the size of the blasted things, there would be some mention. Maybe then we could have realized that, although for a normal small four-cylinder car, such a trip would indeed take 9.5 hours, with a big heavy vehicle towing a big heavy trailer, it will take a little longer. I didn't know they had slopes like that in Ontario. That Jeep does now. And then it poured rain. Barrelling down steep inclines, going blind around corners, like a big-momma with a giant slapping her behind, wacking it back and forth, (that's what the trailer feels like to tow), we went throught the mountains at a snail's pace. The rain reduced us, a few times, to 10 metres visibility. This is terrifying when the road curves around a rock face very high up on a cliff. My nerves were raw, and that beautiful woman beside me started to get on them.
And then we had water in the trailer. But wait - don't panic - it didn't get on anything that it would hurt - except my nerves.
But after the unknown mountains of Northern Ontario, and the 14 degree celsius temperatures up there, the way down was fast and fun. The sun was hot, Melissa decided to try her hand at sticking her head out of the sunroof (she looked like a chia-pet when she came down), it turned out to be a pretty good day. But a long one. We saw wildlife! A bear cub ran across the highway - it really ran, didn't realize those things were so fast. Kind of makes you wonder how you would do agianst one in a forest with a twinky in your hand. It seemed that you would last about 3 minutes. And next I saw the biggest road-kill I have ever seen in my life - a dead moose! We blew by it going 100, and even with the windows done up, it stunk like my brother's hockey bag. Reeked. And then, just when I was getting bitter about only seeing a dead one, we saw some live ones, two of them, chomping through the mush. They sound like T-Rexes when they are running away from you through the forest, though. You can hear them crashing for like 10 minutes.
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