Location: Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada Time of writing: 10.30 (Sun Morning)
Sat was a crazy driving day, 800kms from Blind River Ontario to Thunder Bay. What a drive though! Top Gear may have voted Davos to the Stelvio Pass in the Italian Alps as the worlds best driving road but I think the drive around Lake Superior gives it a run for it's money! Breathtaking doesn't do it justice.....
Drove through White River, home of both the coldest recorded temperature in Canada at -50c and Winnie The Poo! The most interesting part of the drive however was along the Terry Fox highway which is a road dedicated to a man who ran half way across Canada with a prostetic leg to raise money for cancer research. He had intended to run from coast to coast but suffering from cancer himself he finally sucumed to the illness near Thunder Bay where a monument now stands in his honour. An couragous guy.
Checked into the Sleeping Giant Hostel here in Thunder Bay. It's a cool spot even if it is over run with Germans! Went out last night to "meet" some locals only to end up being abducted by a few and shown almost every bar in the city..... Good times were had but not all things are printable here! What I will say though is that no matter where you are in the world peoples lives and sinarios are the same, Thunder Bay however is "Couger"'central in Canada.... Being a different face in a place like this is amusing considering I am in the very small minority of guys that haven't f**ked them over......... Other than being bitter though Cougars also drive SUVs which I've discovered are much cheaper than taxis although listening to countless stories of heartache, cheating and the hated "other woman" are hardley worth it in between bars........ Canadian men are strange.... They are in one of the worlds most fruitful gardens but suffer from the lack of any green fingers............ This traveler ain't complianing of course...... But where's the challange in that!!!
On the iPod: Incubus, Florence & the machine, Drop Kick Murphys
Weather: Tropical sunshine but cold!
