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teddogWheee..... I now live in Thunder Bay.
We left at 6am on Saturday. The early part of the drive was rather boring up until Barrie, as I've been up there before. After we started to see the first signs of the Canadian Shield, I fell asleep until we reached Sudbury. Sudbury is a nickel mining town and they aren't afraid to show it. There's a giant Canadian nickel on top of a hill there. The place was very cold, but I think that's because of a cold snap rather than the normal weather.
It was after Sudbury that we started to see the trademarks of Northern Ontario; the trading posts, very high gas prices, moose warnings, etc. People claim that the north starts after you pass Barrie, but Barrie is nothing.
The road leveled out somewhat followed the coast after Sudbury, so we thought that driving would be slightly better. WRONG. Around Blind River we lost the treads on our back tires. Thankfully we were a block from a new tire place that just opened. They fixed us up and dad commented that unlike the tire shops at home, these people knew what they were doing. I can't remember the name of the place, but it's on the east end of town.
An hour later we hit Sault Saint Marie, or the Soo for short. The local Best Western had a strange water slide that we saw from the road. It was indoors, but outdoors at the same time. The rest of the Soo was forgetable compared to the next of our misadventures.
North of the Soo are mountains. Many mountains. I thought that the Shield didn't have any mountains because of its history . Stupid high school teachers. Ever driven through unknown mountains in the dark? It's pretty scary and dangerous.
Somehow we made it to our hotel. The next morning we pushed through the last few hours to Thunder Bay. So I'm here, stuck on the third floor of a student residence at the college. We're grouped roughly according to our field of study; my hall is all multimedia and film students, while the next one over is all airplane flight management. At least the view from my window is passable. Sure I see the packing lot, but after that there's a nice looking golf course and then mountians.
I'll post photos when I get them developed.
We left at 6am on Saturday. The early part of the drive was rather boring up until Barrie, as I've been up there before. After we started to see the first signs of the Canadian Shield, I fell asleep until we reached Sudbury. Sudbury is a nickel mining town and they aren't afraid to show it. There's a giant Canadian nickel on top of a hill there. The place was very cold, but I think that's because of a cold snap rather than the normal weather.
It was after Sudbury that we started to see the trademarks of Northern Ontario; the trading posts, very high gas prices, moose warnings, etc. People claim that the north starts after you pass Barrie, but Barrie is nothing.
The road leveled out somewhat followed the coast after Sudbury, so we thought that driving would be slightly better. WRONG. Around Blind River we lost the treads on our back tires. Thankfully we were a block from a new tire place that just opened. They fixed us up and dad commented that unlike the tire shops at home, these people knew what they were doing. I can't remember the name of the place, but it's on the east end of town.
An hour later we hit Sault Saint Marie, or the Soo for short. The local Best Western had a strange water slide that we saw from the road. It was indoors, but outdoors at the same time. The rest of the Soo was forgetable compared to the next of our misadventures.
North of the Soo are mountains. Many mountains. I thought that the Shield didn't have any mountains because of its history . Stupid high school teachers. Ever driven through unknown mountains in the dark? It's pretty scary and dangerous.
Somehow we made it to our hotel. The next morning we pushed through the last few hours to Thunder Bay. So I'm here, stuck on the third floor of a student residence at the college. We're grouped roughly according to our field of study; my hall is all multimedia and film students, while the next one over is all airplane flight management. At least the view from my window is passable. Sure I see the packing lot, but after that there's a nice looking golf course and then mountians.
I'll post photos when I get them developed.
