by alex | Oct 18, 2018 | John's Blog
20-years-ago today I was in Hadashville, Manitoba, having crossed the Ontario-Manitoba border a couple of days earlier. We are now in province number seven. When we left Kenora a couple of days ago, I passed the giant billboard showcasing Husky the Musky. In the 53...
by alex | Oct 10, 2018 | John's Blog
20-years-ago today I passed through the little town of Vermillion Bay, between Dryden and Kenora. I say ‘passed through’ because in the past few days there has been little to look at other than the highway, logging trucks and lot of trees and rock. Passing through...
by alex | Oct 4, 2018 | John's Blog
20-years-ago today I was in Upsala, Ontario, 142 kilometres west of Thunder Bay. Upsala, which came into being in 1882 is another of those little towns that was an important fuel and water stop for trains travelling the newly constructed Canadian Pacific Railway...
by alex | Sep 27, 2018 | John's Blog
20-years-ago today I was in Thunder Bay, Ontario and ‘turning the corner’ as we headed northwest toward the Ontario-Manitoba border after making the almost month long sweep around the top of Lake Superior. Time and distance were always on my mind. On the afternoon of...
by alex | Sep 20, 2018 | John's Blog
20-years-ago today, on the 20th of September 1998 I was in Terrace Bay, Ontario. It was my 166th day on the road. Terrance Bay sits on the extreme north shore of Lake Superior and gets its name from a series of lake terraces formed as the water level of Lake Superior...
