Junior Bears’ Big Weekend Road Trip

1.  Blind River

Frozen Lake Huron.

They have this stupid windmill located on the lake shore.  Of all the times we’ve been here, not once, have we ever seen it working.   Ever.

2.  Katherine Cove

Frozen Lake Superior.  Junior sees two Great Lakes in one day.

A Mom with her kids was on the beach.   Her five year old son wanted a photo of his toy with Junior.  It was some kind of dragon that spat our a plastic flame, from a McDonalds Happy Meal.

I asked the kid what the toys’ name was.  He said it didn’t have one.

I suggested “Clem”, but the kid shook his head “No”.

Then I suggested THUN-DAR and he agreed.

So here is Junior with THUN-DAR.

3.  Old Woman Bay

This is last view of the lake you get from the highway, until you get to Marathon, another 200 km further down the road.

4.   Pebble Beach, Marathon

Of course there’s a sign telling you not take any rocks with you.

5.  Rossport

There is absolutely nothing here except some houses     Not even so much as a convenience store.

6   Thunder Bay

This was the furthest west we could reasonably go for the weekend, and still get back to work on time for Monday

It was the first town with traffic lights since we left Sault St. Marie.

7. Terry Fox Memorial, Thunder Bay

He ran the equivalent of a Marathon every day, from St. Johns Newfoundland to here.

8  Beardmore

This is the only thing the town had going for it:  a giant snowman.

Junior was pleased that he was sitting in the “BEAR” letters”.

9.  Geraldton

Sunday morning, at 11:00 AM.

This was one of the “bigger” towns in the area.  So we tried to find a single restaurant that was open.   With no success.

Where do people here go to eat?   There wasn’t even a truck stop.

10.  Hearst

Big Critters.  Junior made some friends.

Since Thunder Bay, this was the longest stretch of paved road (500 km) we have ever seen without a single McDonalds or Tim Hortons.

There was also the biggest log pile we have  ever seen.

11.  Moonbeam

Everything is always better, when you got UFO’s.

12.  Giant Polar Bear 

In downtown Cochrane.

Please note:  DO NOT CLIMB.

13.  49th  Parallel

This is just about the saddest road-side attraction I have ever seen.

14    Giant Bison

His name is apparently “Earl”.    Maybe being next to Earlton has something to do with it.

All in all, we drove more ~ 2700 km.

If this had been the UK, we’d have driven a big chunk of the entire country.