Wow… what a nice highway and not at all what we expected from what we had read. Sunny skies and straight roads welcomed us as we passed lake upon lake – with only fisherman, boats, and tackle shops for over 200 km. Phil, this is the road for you!

The highway was posted as 90km speed limit but it could really be driven at 100-110kmph, which we often did despite yesterday’s near escape. There was no traffic at all, just the occasional truck or car. And by the side of the road, a bear sitting there eating berries, looking at us. By lunch we were near Kapuskasing, another in a long line of small (3000-5000 populations) mining towns built along the train tracks. Not so charming. Each tried to stand out from the other. We saw giant snowmen, lumberjacks, fish and even a flying saucer in the town of Moonbeam (wonder who settled here?).

Frosty looking decidedly out of place

By mid-way however the road stopped being so welcoming with worsening conditions and construction taking place on every bridge, of which there were many. While the highway dropped to a single across rivers, not much work appeared to be taking place with no one in sight, very strange.

Must be Mike Duffy or Pamela Wallins riding 🙂

By late in the day we had hoped to be in North Bay but we ended up an hour or so short in Temagami at a resort on a lake, very nice. No bugs, all is good and the ribs and wings were excellent 🙂

Temagami – float planes, fish, boats and ribs

Off to Ottawa tomorrow for a hangout with Michelle and Dave then home late Thursday is the plan, we’ll see.