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Mon Jun 04, 2007 3:14 pm

I feel your pain...constuction sux....So what is your impression of Lake Superior?

Do you ever give your camera to someone to take your photo?

Too bad about the heavy rain.

#42 Unread post by **dr_bar** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 5:15 pm

blues2cruise wrote:Do you ever give your camera to someone to take your photo?

That would mean I stop where people are parked... Oh, you mean anywhere, DOH! I guess I'll have to break out the mini tripod huh?

Mon Jun 04, 2007 5:19 pm

dr_bar wrote:
blues2cruise wrote:Do you ever give your camera to someone to take your photo?
That would mean I stop where people are parked... Oh, you mean anywhere, DOH! I guess I'll have to break out the mini tripod huh?

Well....at least in front of a "Welcome to where you've never been before" sign.

#44 Unread post by **dr_bar** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 12:08 pm

As I said in a text message earlier today...

HOLY CRAPOLA!!!

I awoke today with frost on my bike,

so I loaded it up and went for a long breakfast hoping it would warm up a bit. Well it must have because it started raining before I left, (it could have been snow...) Rain on and off before lunch, then just a freezing cold overcast day the rest of the way.

Lots of truck traffic and the cold slowed me down, and I didn't get anywhere near Sudbury like I wanted to, but maybe that was a good thing as they had freezing rain this morning, (and snow forecast for tonight...) Would someone look at a calendar and let me know if I left home in May or Feb...

So with that said:

Driving distance: 489.3 kilometers

I only made it to Sault Ste Marie, not a productive day, I have to get quite a bit further tomorrow...

I know I probably won't get the whole distance done, but I have to try and make Ottawa or as close as possible to try and catch up to my goals...

#45 Unread post by **dr_bar** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 5:24 pm

Posting all these little maps has left me thinking I'm making little or no progress on this trip. So, I thought that I'd post a current "total" trip map, and keep it up todate on a daily basis. So you don't have to go hunt it down, I will keep it in my signature for now...

Crappppppp!!! I have travelled just a few kms this trip...

Tue Jun 05, 2007 6:04 pm

dr_bar wrote:... and I didn't get anywhere near Sudbury like I wanted to, but maybe that was a good thing as they had freezing rain this morning, (and snow forecast for tonight...) Would someone look at a calendar and let me know if I left home in May or Feb...

I have only a one-word answer for that: CANADA

Wed Jun 06, 2007 4:32 pm

Are you stuck in a snow banK? That's about the only excuse we will accept for not checking in.

#48 Unread post by **dr_bar** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 5:26 pm

Really quick before I go for a bite to eat, I'm just less than an hour out of Ottawa. I'll breeze through there tomorrow. I'll update my maps soon...

#49 Unread post by **dr_bar** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 9:39 am

Okay, today is about the shortest day of all, I made the outskirts of Ottawa and I'm calling it a day. I've been feeling a bit under the weather and after yesterday a bit exhausted. So a short day was called for.

Yesterday I rode from Sault Ste Marie to Arnprior, (less than an hour out of Ottawa.) Today, I'm in Kanata, just off Terry Fox Dr. I can't believe how many times I've seen that name since entering Ontario, it seems they've taken ownership of that BC boy...

The map below covers both days as I thought it would be dumb to post a map for a whole 40k... lol

Driving distance: 716.3 kms yesterday, 46 kms today.

(Doesn't include time driving through Renfrew, looking for an open gas station... I think I went on reserve just after every gas station on the hwy closed.)

Fri Jun 08, 2007 4:46 am

Don't get sick dr_bar! Take care of yourself! So, are you on sched now or shall I say back on Blues sched from that extra day spent in Calgary?