Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. Albert Einstein

Well, now we are down to the short strokes - we are really on our way.  No more long stops with relatives, friends or shopping plazas.  Today we actually take off for the rest of our journey to the East Coast, Down to and across America and back home!

We are in your hands now Shirley!

Travel/Viaggiate - by Gio Evan

Try to travel, otherwise
you may become racist,
and you may end up believing
that your skin is the only one
to be right,
that your language
is the most romantic
and that you were the first
to be the first.

Travel,
because if you don't travel then
your thoughts won’t be strengthened,
won’t get filled with ideas.
Your dreams will be born with fragile legs and then you end up believing in tv-shows, and in those who invent enemies
that fit perfectly with your nightmares
to make you live in terror.

Travel,
because travel teaches
to say good morning to everyone
regardless of which sun we come from.

Travel,
because travel teaches
to say goodnight to everyone
regardless of the darkness
that we carry inside.

Travel,
because traveling teaches to resist,
not to depend,
to accept others, not just for who they are
but also for what they can never be.
To know what we are capable of,
to feel part of a family
beyond borders,
beyond traditions and culture.

Traveling teaches us to be beyond.

Travel,
otherwise you end up believing
that you are made only for a panorama
and instead inside you
there are wonderful landscapes
still to visit.

 

Shirley, where you going tonight?

Shirley, Shirley I love you so 

I'm never gonna let you go 

Shirley where you going tonight? 

Shirley, Shirley will you be my girl? 

I'll take you all around the world 

Shirley, where you going tonight?

I know you have been all been worried!  Where is Shirley?  Well, Shirley and the crew have been languishing for the last two weeks or so - Huntsville, Penn Lake, Toronto, Niagara On The Lake, Orillia, (for the BIG wedding - and Grand it was), Jacksons Point Lake Simcoe and Fenelon Falls. Hope you enjoy the photo montage -

Huntsville Penn Lake with Nancy's sister and brother in law for 6 days

Toronto with old friends Herb and Ildiko 

Downtown TO

Orillia and The Wedding

Family at The Wedding

Good Friends in Niagara on The Lake Clyde and Stephanie and at Lake Simcoe, Jeff and Marianne

And long time friends and work mates Ruth and Bruce in Fenelon Falls

To all of our friends ad relatives - thanks for such a warm and wonderful visit and welcome.  We enjoyed seeing and spending time with you and enjoyed your warm hospitality.  See y0u again soon I hope!

Now onto points east - Ottawa,, Montreal, Quebec City (where we will probably not spend a great deal of time as we have been there) and Gaspe Bay, Moncton and on.....

Look for the next update coming sooner than this one!

 

Onward East

Marathon, Struthers, Mobert, White River, Wawa

We sail along beside Lake Superior through some memorable little towns

and end up in Wawa for a spell.

down through Lake Superior Provincial Park we stop at The Agawa Rock Petroglphys

"Hey mom and dad, lets go to the beach,

we will pretend we're going to a mystical land.
I’ll get some buckets and fill them up,
and we can make giant castles in the sand."

And then a night camping on the Beach at The Pinecrest Tent and Trailer Park in Thessalon, ON.

Loved this spot!

across Manitoulin Island

ON the Ferry to Tobermory

and we swim in our favourite spot on the Bruce Peninsula - The Grotto

And then onto Sauble Beach on The Bruce

to see good Friends John and Norma Downs

And Finally

To Rest

Penn Lake in Huntsville

May all your days be cheerful

Brian and Nancy

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood…. Robert Frost "The Road Not Taken"

Robert Frost was so right - we have seen so many roads we wished to take, and couldn't. We have looked back and thought - what did we miss?

While I can't say that we took all the roads "less travelled by", 

I can say that we took roads that led to fields of gold ands yellow, 

rivers and lakes green and turquoise 

and sky - big sky!

Signs soon become a blur.  Small towns a building caught by your eye - then - gone!

South of Winnipeg we stay in a mediocre RV campground that presented us with one of those great prairie sunsets.

We visit a friend at Black Sturgeon Lake and took a dip.

Along the way we reward ourselves with craft beers.

The Farmery Craft Beer from Neepawa still my Fav!  Oh Canada - what great beer you have!

In Kenora we stay at Anicinabe Park - A fantastic Provincial Campground!

The Next Day - Kakabaka Falls - just before we roll into Thunder Bay!

And the Next day - White Lake Provincial Park just a few miles past Thunder Bay!  A swim and - a craft beer!

Are you tired?

We have been moving along.

We are just starting to slow down - to truly understand we are retired and slow travel just makes sense!

We'll keep you posted on the next phases of slow travel!

Nancy and Brian