Day 58 Summer 2011 Road Trip

We are in the home stretch now… Time to leave Sault Ste. Marie Ontario and head for home.
There were foggy patches as we started our morning drive South on the Trans Canada Highway.

 

Seeing this sign, I hope there aren’t any moose on the road, we won’t see them in time to stop.

  

It is a scenic drive, I have never been this far North of our home.

  

We will be back this way next summer though as our plans will have us re-tracing this part of the Trans Canada Highway and we will be continuing on much further past Sault Ste. Marie.

We take the ramp to Hwy 69 and now we are feeling closer to home and more familiar with our surroundings.

 

Stopped at the French River Trading Post for lunch in the Hungry Bear Restaurant.



Then back on the road again, beautiful blue skies with big puffy clouds overhead.

 

There is the sign that we are now in Simcoe County and home.



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Day 57 Summer 2011 Road Trip

Absolutely nothing going on today.  We are sticking close to our hotel here in Sault Ste. Marie Ontario.  I am taking it easy before the drive from here to home tomorrow.   I am working on getting the blog up to date, working on photo editing and uploading photos to Flickr and I am relaxing and reading my Kindle.  Karen is also relaxing and reading and getting organized for the last leg of the journey to home.

No pictures today.

Day 56 Summer 2011 Road Trip

Today we got up really early so that we would not miss boarding The Agawa Canyon Tour Train.

  

We had our breakfast in the dining car of the train.

 

The first part of the trip is through the rail yards in Sault Ste. Marie Ontario.

  

The scenery heading North to the Agawa Canyon is very beautiful.  It is 118 miles from Sault Ste. Marie to the Agawa Canyon and we took many many photos, here are just a few.

  

  

Several members of Canada’s “Group of Seven” artists would get a lot of the inspiration for their paintings by travelling on the train to the Agawa Canyon.

We rounded a curve and passed over an old trestle bridge.

 

We arrived at the canyon around noon and went for a short hike and had some lunch.

  

We hiked to see the Black Beaver Falls.

 

After about an hour we boarded the train for the ride back to Sault Ste. Marie.

Part way home, the train encountered a Moose on the tracks.  We were able to view the Moose running along the tracks in front of the train because the train has a camera mounted on the engine and TV's that broadcast what the camera is seeing.  The photo is not the best because I am taking a photo of the TV screen and the motion of the train made it very difficult to keep a steady hand.



We really enjoyed the train ride today and if we were ever to do this again, we would come back in the fall season as the leaves are changing colour.

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Day 55 Summer 2011 Road Trip

We slept in this morning and had a late breakfast.  Then we packed our suitcases and loaded up the car.  We are going to head across the river to Sault Ste. Marie Ontario this morning.

We paid the bridge toll and drove across the International Bridge.

 

Half way across and we are back in Canada.



Clearing customs was a breeze, only 2 cars ahead of us.  We were asked how long we had been in the USA and where we had visited, then the customs officer waved us through.

 

We have some time to kill before we can check into our hotel so we went to check out the Canadian Locks.

 

There are security rules and regulations to be followed when visiting the locks, but nothing compared to the American locks, we were able to walk along the edge and right out onto the lock gates.

  

Next we visited the Canadian Bush Plane Museum.

  

The bush planes were interesting to look at.  I asked if they had a plane to take us up for a flight, but unfortunately there are no charter services in the area.  It would have been fun to fly over the locks and down the St Mary’s River.

  

After visiting the museum we checked into our hotel.  We had dinner this evening at Docks Riverfront Grill.
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