Tuesday morning - June 25th

Monday, June 24, 2019 – Onward to Sault Ste Marie

Our first morning where there is rain. Not much and it doesn’t keep the mosquitoes down. One upside is cooler temperatures and cleaner RV’s.

We’ve decided to run a little longer and make up some distance. From time to time along the road we glimpse the grey expanse of Lake Superior, fading out in the hazy distance. The terrain here is more hilly, more folded. We drop down to the lake shore and then struggle up another steep rise.  Repeat and repeat. Now I’m singing Neil Young’s ‘Long May You Run’, in my head. A fitting tune for a boy from Ontario about his beloved hearse that died in Blind River.

We refuel at White River. The Ceilidh pouts. Up goes the hood, press the hot-wire and presto, the engine is purring. Up and down more hills, more miles, more trees.

At 4:30 we pull into our campsite, having traversed the past few hours in bouts of rain.  We set up and the rain starts in earnest.  It passes through in waves. Raindrops bounce off hard surfaces and our roof is playing a military drum tattoo. Outside our door the water has formed a small river four or five inches deep. Water rolls over the dirt roads of the campsite.  It really does rain here.

Tomorrow we’ll head for Sudbury, nickel capital of the world and home of, yes, a giant nickel.