July 31

We were supposed to leave today, but we've decided to stay an extra day. So we filled out another envelope and paid $15.70 CAD ($14.22 US). We spent our day just hanging around the campsite.

Even though our temps have been in the mid-40's in the mornings and up to the low 60's in the afternoon, Tinker thinks it is WAY too COLD for July.

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Symphony did give Al a haircut this afternoon -

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and we had another great sunset over Lake Audy.

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Lake Audy & BIson Range

It was still cloudy and overcast this morning when we got up. We said goodbye to Jack & Bonnie this morning before they left.

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In 1937 this area was designated as a national park now known as Riding Mountain National Park. This area was once home to bison, but were hunted to near extinction by 1875. In 1931 16 bison were re-introduced to the Park and now the herd numbers around 40 bison. The Bison Enclosure is just down the road from the campground and we drove through it today.

We followed the signs off the main road in the hopes of seeing some bison. Well, we weren't disappointed. As a matter of fact, we came across a fellow who wanted to impress upon us that this was HIS territory. He started out at the side of the road, but moved into the road and we sat in the car for about 10 minutes before this fellow moved over to the other side of the road.

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Once we were back on the road we came across the maid herd of bison which included some calves.

After leaving the Bison Enclosure we drove over to the Horse Corral Campground to see it. Here Mike & Al had another opportunity to add to their collection of outhouses.

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We then headed back to the RVs. Tinker took a nap-

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we had dinner outside (the rain had stopped) -

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and we had a great sunset!

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Wasagaming to Lake Audy

We were up early this morning to head over to Lake Audy Campground.

While Mike & Al stopped at the dump station to empty the RV tanks, Symphony & I drove our cars out to Lake Audy. I used our Garmin gps for the trip and Mike used our laptop to follow the route out to the campground. We took Hwy 10 south from Wasagaming & then followed Hwy 354 to the entrance to Riding Mountain National Park - no wrong turns this time.

We arrived at Lake Audy about 8 a.m. and was relieved to see that no one had taken the 2 campsites that we wanted. Mike had seen a photo of these 2 campsites in a brochure and thought they were perfect. Symphony & I sat in her car while we waited for Mike & Al to come in the RVs.

Mike & Al arrived a little before 9 a.m. We are on site #14 with no hookups, but the best view of Lake Audy. We parked the RVs facing each other so each of us would have the best view from the windows.

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Lake Audy Campground is a self-registration campground. We filled out an envelope with our information & site # and paid $47.10 CAD ($42.67 US) for 3 days.

The weather was nice when we arrived this morning - sunny and blue skies. After setting up our RVs, we all went for a walk around the campground. Since it's still early in the camping season, there are only a few people here.

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Our biggest problem was how to get a photo of our campsites as viewed from the lake. Imagine our good luck to see 2 kayakers out on the lake! Mike explained to them  that we had been trying to figure out how to get some photos of our campsite viewed from the lake and they said they would be happy to take some photos for us. Jack & Bonnie are from Calgary and are staying just a few campsites over from us.

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Jack & Bonnie each had a camera and they both took photos of us from their kayaks. Later on this afternoon they came over to the RV and we downloaded their photos and movies to our computer. They stayed a while and we all had a nice visit - a great couple. We would have liked to visit with them longer, but Jack & Bonnie are leaving tomorrow.

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This afternoon the dark clouds and rain moved in and we had rain off and on, but we have one of the best campsites ever!!

7/28 Winnipeg to Wassagaming

We left Traveller's RV Resort this morning at 9:45 and headed west on Trans Canada 1. We stopped for gas at a Flying J in Headingley. We got 83.295 litres (21.92 gal) for $.964 CAD a litre ($3.312 US a gallon).

Along the way we kept seeing blue and yellow fields of crops. I've since found out that the blue/lavendar fields are flax seed and the yellow fields are canola.

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We changed to Trans Canada 16 (Yellowhead Highway) and stopped at noon at a restaurant/gas station that was closed in Westbourne.

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We stopped at a rest area west of Minnedosa for about a half hour before going north on Highway 10 to Wasagaming Campground in Riding Mountain National Park.

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We arrived at Wasagaming Campground a little after 3 p.m. Riding Mountain National Park is 190 miles from Winnipeg.

We are on site 116 and Al & Symphony are in the site next to us. We have 30 amp electric and there is a water spigot a couple of sites from us. It's a gravel site pretty level with lots of trees, so no satellite TV. There are 3 local TV stations that we can pick up. We will be here just one night and we paid $43.10 CAD (40.07 US) for our site.

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We bought 2 Canadian National Park Passes (annual) for $57.90 CAD each ($54.27 US) when we checked in to the campground. We purchased the National Park Passes so we wouldn't have to pay the daily entrance fees at the Canadian National Parks, but it doesn't give us any discount on the camping fees.

After settling in at the campground, Mike and I drove out to Lake Audy Campground to check it out. Lake Audy is a self-registration campground, so we can't reserve a campsite. We took our new Garmin GPS to try it out in the car. Lake Audy is about 41 km (25 mi) west of Wasagaming. There are 2 ways to Lake Audy and we will be going in the southern entrance. We found out that the local roads to Lake Audy don't have many road signs and we stopped a man in a pickup truck to make sure we were on the right road. We found out that we should have gone straight instead of making the last turn the GPS told us to make.

We followed his directions and found the entrance to the park with no problem. We were happy to see that the campsites we hope to get were vacant. After looking around the campground for a while, we went back to Wasagaming. Once back here we got with Al and Symphony and made plans for an early departure tomorrow morning.

The Manitoba Museum

This morning the four of us drove into town to visit The Manitoba Museum. The entrance fee for seniors was $6.50 CAD including tax. We started our tour in the Orientation Gallery depicting the relationship of humans with the natural environment - which is the theme of the Museum.

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Our next stop was the Earth History Gallery showing the geologic history of Manitoba and some of the earliest inhabitants including a replica of the world's largest trilobite and the 14-foot Giant Sloth and a replica of the world's largest trilobite.

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The Arctic/Sub-Arctic Gallery was our next stop. We saw displays of wildlife that inhabit the arctic and sub-arctic regions. We learned about the lives of the Caribou Inuit who hunted and fished this area.

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We "travelled" next to the Boreal Forest Gallery. This forest covers almost one-third of Manitoba. There was a life-sized display of an Algonquin Encampment showing their everyday life. The display included many of the wildlife that inhabits the boreal forest.

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The next gallery was the Nonsuch Gallery. We were able to walk aboard a replica of the Nonsuch "anchored" at a recreation of a 17th century English waterfront. The replica was built in England in 1970 to celebrate the tricentennial of the Hudson' Bay Company and was sailed over 14,000 kilometres from England before ending up at the Museum. The original Nonsuch sailed into Hudson Bay in 1668 in search of furs. This voyage lead to the founding of the Hudson's Bay Company and was instrumental in established commerce in western Canada.

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Hudson's Bay Gallery spans over 300 years of the Company's history. Besides learning about the Company's history, we learned that Hudson's Bay Company is still in business and is Canada's largest diversified general merchandise retailer.

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In the Parklands/Mixed Woods Gallery is a transition from teh Boreal Forest to the Grasslands showing a larger diversity of wildlife and a 27-metre mural depicting an Ukrainian Rye Farm.

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In the Grasslands Gallery we learned that the great grasslands had been home to enormous herds of bison, but with the settlement of the Red River region the herds disappeared. Here were displays of a sod house and a log cabin.

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Our final stop was at the Urban Gallery where we walked the wooden boardwalks of 1920's Winnipeg. Here we entered the various businesses and homes of Winnipeg during it's boom time.

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The Manitoba Museum also has a Science Gallery and Planetarium, but we didn't visit them.

After leaving the Museum we stopped at a Wendy's for lunch before heading over to Costco.
Al and Symphony have a Garmin GPS and we have been using it for our sightseeing trips. We found one at Costco and decided to buy it for ourselves. We use Microsoft's Streets and Trips for our route planning and a Delorme USB GPS on our laptop in the RV. We have used our laptop in the car with the USB GPS, but it isn't as convenient as having a smaller GPS. There were 2 Garmin GPS' at Costco and the one we bought has lifetime traffic updates included and it was only $30 more than the GPS where we would have to pay a subscription for the traffic updates.

We then headed back to the campground to get ready for our departure tomorrow. I'm looking forward to using our Garmin GPS tomorrow on our trip and see how it compares to the one on our laptop

Western Canada Aviation Museum

Today we split up - the guys went sightseeing. Symphony and I went grocery shopping and wifi-ing.

This afternoon Mike and Al visited the Western Canada Aviation Museum which is near the Winnipeg International Airport. It is the second largest aviation museum in Canada.

The displays included 100 Years of Flight covering Canada's aviation history and aviation pioneers including Canada's first helicopter.

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There is a Bush Flying Gallery dedicated to the bush pilots and their planes - including the "Cadillac" of bush planes.

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There was a large display of "nose art" showing the creativity of air crews.

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Then there was the Avrocar - a replica of a flying saucer- that was built in a secret contract between the United States military and Avro Canada during the Cold War years.

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Mike and Al told us they had a great time at the museum today.

Assiniboine Park Zoo

This morning we went to the Assiniboine Park Zoo located on the west side of Winnipeg about 15 miles (24 km) from the campground. We arrived a few minutes after the zoo opened at 9:00. The admission for seniors was $4.25.

We decided to start our tour with the bear range. There was no polar bear at the zoo. We learned that Debby, the resident polar bear, had died last November at the age of 42 (the oldest living polar bear in the world). Besides the grizzly bear and black bear, we saw a rare white black bear. The white color is due to lack of a black hair pigment called melanin. 

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We continued on our tour of the zoo to the Australian Exhibit, Monkey House, owls, American Bison and much, much more.

At the American Bison exhibit we saw 2 young white calves. As in the white black bear, a white buffalo occurs as the result of a recessive mutation that leaves the hair follicles without the dark pigment melanin.

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We spent about 3 hours at the zoo enjoying the animal exhibits and the great weather. As we were leaving, we saw the sculpture Winnie-the-Bear and Harry Colebourne. Here we learned about the true story that Winnie the Pooh stories are based on.

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After leaving the zoo, we started looking for a place to have lunch before going back to the RV park.  We found an Olive Garden and decided to have their All-You-Can-Eat soup and salad - always a good meal.

Once we got back to the RV I fixed a pot of coffee and turned it on. Nothing!! The coffee pot was DEAD. It was a Black & Decker undercounter coffee maker that we just had sitting on the counter. I like it because the water and coffee can be filled from the front of the coffee maker and not from the top. I had seen a Delonghi coffee maker in a Sam's some time ago that was similar, but what are the odds that I can find one today?

Symphony and I were going to wifi at a Fyxx Espresso coffee shop this afternoon and I told her we needed to go shopping for a coffee pot. We drove up to the Sears at St. Vital Centre and imagine my surprise and delight to find the Delonghi coffee maker that I wanted at Sears!! Of course, it was more expensive there than it would have been at Sam's, but it was the one I wanted and I wouldn't have to spend a lot of time shopping for a coffee maker. Afterwards Symphony and I stopped at Fyxx Espresso to wifi and have iced cappuccino, before going back to the RV park.

Pick up Mail in Pembina, ND

We called American Home Base last Monday to have our mail sent to General Delivery, Pembina, North Dakota. So we drove down Hwy 75 to Pembina this morning. Pembina is 88 miles (140 km) south of Winnipeg and is the closest post office in the US where we can have mail sent to General Delivery.

There was quite a line of vehicles waiting to cross the border into North Dakota. Canadian Highway 75 turns into Interstate 29 on the US side of the border.

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After picking up our mail at the post office, we stopped at Gastrak Truck Stop to have lunch at the deli before crossing the US/Canada border and heading back to Winnipeg.


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Royal Canadian Mint

We spent yesterday settling in here at Traveller's RV Resort. Symphony and I did laundry at the campground laundromat and bought groceries at a Safeway near here.

After lunch the four of us visited the Royal Canadian Mint which is only 4 miles from the campground. The entrance to the Winnipeg Royal Canadian Mint is lined with flags that represent the foreign countries that have their coins minted here.

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Once inside the Mint we signed up for the 1:30 English tour of the mint - $5 each for the tour. We wondered around the Boutique while we waited for our tour to begin. You can actually pick up a gold bar to see how much it weighs! Of course, there is an armed guard standing there and the bar is secured with a large chain to the stand.

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Our tour started on the second floor of the mint. We learned that the Winnipeg facility mints all of the Canadian circulation coins. They also mint coins for over 70 foreign countries. The facility in Ottawa mints all of the commemorative coins. We learned about coin production starting from raw metal to the final stamped coins. Unfortunately, we weren't allowed to take photos on the tour. After our tour we stopped by the Boutique to purchase some souvenirs.

Before heading back to the campground, we drove over to Costco on the west side of Winnipeg do some shopping.

It's really feeling like summer now; our high today was 77°F (25°C).

Kenora to Winnipeg

It's starting to feel more like summer now. It was 63°F (17°C) this morning. By the time we broke camp and stopped to dump our tanks at the dump station, it was 10:15 when we left Anicinabe RV Park.

We stopped at the Canadian Tire Store just up the road to buy gas before leaving Kenora. We got 172.979 ltrs at $1.029 a liter; which converts to 45.521 gallons at $3.598 a gallon. We headed west on Hwy 17 through Kenora.

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We stopped at the Manitoba Information Centre just across the border of Manitoba and Ontario to pick up maps and sightseeing brochures.

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It was after 12:00 when we got back to the RVs and we decided to have lunch before going on to Winnipeg.

We arrived at Traveller's RV Resort on the SE side of Winnipeg about 2:30 (123 miles from Kenora). Traveller's RV Resort is a Coast to Coast campground. We are in site 202. It is a pull-through and we have 50 amp electric and water and sewer. Symphony and Al are next to us in site 203. It really was feeling like summer this afternoon - 75°F (24°C)!

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We will be here for 7 days. Our site is pretty level for a gravel site. We don't have a patio, but there is grass between the RVs. There is plenty of room between the RVs which is nice. Also, garbage is picked up daily at the site.

Anicinabe RV Park

We moved over to site 8 this afternoon after the previous occupants left. Al & Symphony are on site 9. The hookups are the same as the ones on site 37 - 30 amp electric and water. Even though we are on the other side of the campground, we are still able to pick up the wifi signal.

We called American Home Base to have our mail sent to General Delivery at Pembina, North Dakota.

Anicinabe is from the Ojibway language and roughly mean "the People". The area here at Lake of the Woods has always been a gathering place for the aboriginal people.

We spent the day taking it easy and checking out the campground and taking photos. The RV park is on the Lake of the Woods - which is the second largest freshwater lake in Ontario.

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One of the things we have seen along the highway on our trip through Ontario has been the inuksuit (plural for "inukshuk" - which means "in the likeness of a human"). It has been hard to take a photo of them when we're going along the highway. Some have only been a few stones stacked up and some are in the shape of a human. We finally got a great photo of an inukshuk!

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The inukshuk were made in different forms to serve different messages - as navigation or directional aids, to mark a place of respect or memorial for a beloved person, or to indicate migration routes or places where fish can be found. They are made of unworked stones that are used by the Inuit for communication and survival.

7/19 Thunder Bay to Kenora

We left Trowbridge Falls Campground this morning a little before 10:30. We headed into Thunder Bay to get gas in the RVs before heading north to Kenora. We got 111.43 ltr @ $1.032 ltr which converts to 29.324 gal @$3.604 gallon. Because it was going to be difficult to maneuver the RVs into the gas station with the cars hooked up, we waited to hitch up the cars. We hitched up the cars in a large parking lot that was across the street from the gas station.

We traveled west on Hwy 17 from Thunder Bay. We found a place to pull off the road about 8 miles from Raith where we could stop for lunch at noon.

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We arrived at Anicinabe RV Park & Campground about 4:30 after driving 307 miles from Thunder Bay. They didn't have 2 sites next to each other for tonight, so we will be on site 37 and will move to site 8 tomorrow. Al & Symphony are on site 9 for tonight & tomorrow night.

We're staying here for 2 nights and it's costing us $30.72 CAD ( $28.11 US) a night. We have 30 amp electric and water and we are able to pick up the wifi signal at the RV. The site is gravel and reasonably. There isn't a patio, but there is grass between the RVs.

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Mike & I decided we wanted to check out Boston Pizza in Kenora for dinner. We've been seeing commercials for Boston Pizza ever since we got in Canada & the pizzas always looked good. We checked with Al & Symphony to see if they wanted to go, but they had met some people here that invited them to a fish fry.

We drove around the town of Kenora before going into Boston Pizza. We ordered a medium Rustic Italian and added pepperoni and Miller Genuine Draft. Our beers were $3.99 each and the pizza was $25.05. We definitely weren't disappointed in our meal - the pizza was just as good as it looked in the commercials.

Afterwards, we went back to the RV park. We'll be moving to site 8 tomorrow and will be next to Al & Symphony.

Trip to Grand Portage, MN to pick up mail

This morning we all got in Al's car to go down to the Post Office at Grand Portage, MN to pick up our mail. The last time we had mail sent to us was on June 22 when we all were in Gaylord, MI.
We had made an appointment at Petsmart in Thunder Bay to have Tinker bathed, so we stopped on our way south  and left Tinker there. Then we headed south on Hwy 61 and crossed the US/Canadian border into Minnesota which is in the Central Time Zone (Thunder Bay is in the Eastern Time Zone).

The Post Office is located inside the Grand Portage Trading Post. We filled up the gas tank in Al’s car before going in to pick up our mail. We had had our mail sent Priority Mail from Pensacola, FL on July 13 and it had arrived July 15 at General Delivery in Grand Portage! How fast is that?!

After we got our mail we decided to eat lunch at the Rendezvous Grill inside the Trading Post. When we got back to the border there were several cars and 4 motorcycles ahead of us and just 1 lane open, so it took us longer to cross the border this time. There had only been 1 car ahead of us when we crossed the border earlier this morning.

Mike and I had California hamburgers (lettuce and tomato on the burger) and french fries. Al and Symphony split a roast beef sub (the sub was huge) with cole slaw and french fries.

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After lunch we headed back to Thunder Bay. Once back in Thunder Bay we stopped at Petsmart and picked up Tinker. Before going back to the campground, we went to the Real Canadian Superstore to get some groceries. This was our first time shopping at a Real Canadian Superstore and it is quite a store. It is similar to the Wal-Mart Supercenters, but it seemed larger in size and with more variety of products.

Then we headed back to the campground. After dinner Al, Symphony and I took Tinker and Chrissy for a walk around the campground.

While we were out walking Mike called a couple of campgrounds listed in the AAA Canadian Campground book and checked on campsite availability for Sunday and Monday nights for our overnight stops between Thunder Bay and Winnipeg.

We’ll be staying at Cobblestone Lodge Campground near Ignace on Sunday and Longbow Lake Campground near Kenora on Monday.

Al & Symphony arrive

Al & Symphony arrived here at Trowbridge Falls Campground this afternoon. They are in site 36B (30 amp electric) which is right behind us.

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It was good to see them and we spent the rest of the day catching up.

They had a great time up at Armstrong Station. They had stopped by the side of the road before heading into Armstrong and a woman came by in her car and wanted to know if they were lost because they have Florida tags on their RV. Al explained how he had been stationed at Armstrong Station in the '60's and wanted to visit it while they were in Canada.

The woman invited them to park their RV at the lake by their cabin for the time that they stayed in Armstrong. Al & Symphony told us they had a terrific time.

Thunder Bay

It was quite a bit warmer this morning - 54°F (12°C).

The laundromat here at the campground isn't working, so Barb & Dolly at the office told us of a laundromat in Thunder Bay that was fairly new. So I drove into town to Barb’s Laundromat to do laundry. Barb’s is a combination laundromat and movie rental with a Robin’s Donuts next door. This is the first commercial (non-campground) laundry I’ve been to since being in Canada.

The standard washers cost $2.50 CAD ($2.22 US) a load ($2.75 for the super cycle). Those washers took 2 Loonies (the Canadian $1 coin) and 2 quarters. I used one of the triple load washers for our towels which cost $4.25 CAD ($3.77 US) a load. That washer took 2 Toonies (the Canadian $2 coin and 1 quarter). The dryers took quarters and you got 9 minutes for $.50 CAD ($.44 US) and an additional 5 minutes for each additional quarter. The final cost of doing laundry today was $20.75 CAD ($18.44 US). I normally don't go into this much detail for the laundromat, but I thought it might be interesting to show what it cost. In the states I've paid anywhere from $1 to $1.75 a load for a washing machine.

After lunch Mike and I drove over to a branch of the Thunder Bay Public Library in the County Fair Mall to use their wifi service. Since we are visitors and don’t have a library card, we had to show our driver’s licenses to register for the wifi service. After having our information entered in the computer, we were given access codes and passwords to use.

We caught up on e-mail and Mike made a reservation with Coast to Coast for Traveller’s Rest Campground in Winnipeg. I updated some entries on our blog and updated our Google map showing our current location. We had just gotten in the car when it started to rain again. It had been raining off and on all afternoon.

We stopped at a Sunys Energy gas station to fill the tank in the Vue. The attendant at the gas station came over to fill our tank – a full service station!. We got 25.7 liters (6.763 gal) at $1.05 a liter ($3.62 gal) US.

There was a Safeway grocery store across the street from the gas station and we bought a few groceries and 2 cups of coffee at the Starbucks in Safeway before returning to the campground.

It did warm up to 73°F (23°C) this afternoon, but it rained the rest of the afternoon.

Trowbridge Falls Campground

It was 37°F (3°C) this morning. I went into Walmart to do some grocery shopping before we headed over to Trowbridge Falls Campground. We spent the morning trying to call Al & Symphony to let them know about our change in plans on campgrounds, but our calls weren't getting through to them. After lunch we decided to go to Trowbridge Falls Campground, a Thunder Bay city campground, and get our campsites.

Mike called the office at Chippewa Park to leave a message for Al to let them know about the change in plans just in case we weren't able to call them.

It was only 7 miles from Walmart to the campground and we arrived there about 2:30. We both went into the office at the campground and had a great time visiting with the 2 ladies, Dolly & Barb, who work there. They both had a great attitude and were very funny. We also left a message for Al with them in case he should call.

We paid $125.70 CAD ($111.65 US) for 5 days. We are in site 36A - it is a double site with 30amp (36B) & 50amp (36A) electric service. The sites are gravel with electric and water hookups. The bathrooms/showers and dump station are across from our sites and there is a nice grassy area next to the bathrooms to walk the dogs.

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It did warm up to 72°F (22°C) this afternoon and we had a little bit of rain

Marathon to Thunder Bay

It was cooler this morning when we got up - 39°F (4°C), but since it was sunny it didn't feel too cold. We left Neys Lunch & Campground this morning around 10:30 and headed west on Trans Canada 17.

We stopped for lunch about noon at a pull-off east of Kama overlooking Lake Superior.

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While we were stopped for lunch, Mike called American Home Base to have our mail sent to Grand Portage, Minnesota which is about 40 miles south of Thunder Bay. If we have our mail sent to us in Canada it has to go through customs and there is no telling when we would actually receive it.

We pulled into the Terry Fox Tourist Information Centre around 2 p.m. After picking up some brochures at the Information Centre we walked over to the Terry Fox Monument which overlooks Lake Superior. The monument is set on a 45 ton granite base with a foundation of local amethyst and a 9 foot high bronze statue of Terry Fox on top. Terry Fox lost a leg to cancer at the age of 20 and embarked on a cross-country run for Cancer research - Marathon of Hope. Unfortunately on September 1, 1980 just northeast of Thunder Bay after 143 days, running 5,373 km (3,339 miles) he was unable to finish because his cancer had spread.

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We then drove into Thunder Bay to locate Wal-Mart where we're spending the night. After parking the RV at Wal-Mart we disconnected the Vue and drove south to Chippewa Park to check out the campground there. We found out that they are in the process of updating the campground, so we decided to drive up to Trowbridge Falls Park & Campground to see what they have there. After driving up to Trowbridge Falls Campground and looking around, we decided to stay there.

Before heading back to the RV, we stopped at a Wendy's for dinner and then at Robin's Donuts for some donuts.

We drove about 170 miles today from Neys Campground. Al and Symphony are supposed to be here tomorrow. We do have 1 bar on our cell phones here in Thunder Bay, but we haven't been able to call Al to let them know that we're staying at Trowbridge Falls instead of Chippewa Park.

Neys Lunch & Campground

Today we just stayed here at the campground. We're leaving here tomorrow and going to Thunder Bay where we will meet back up with Al and Symphony.

We packed away stuff that we didn't need in preparation for tomorrow's departure.

This afternoon we went down to the store to wifi one last time.

John and Tammy were both there and we were able to get a photo of them. We told them how much we had enjoyed our stay there. John and Tammy and Betty and Cyril (parents) were really helpful . We always had a good time there at the store visiting with them.

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