Day 19 - Thunder Bay - Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada
Day 19 – 27th June 2005 -5:00 GMT Total Miles 7599
Got woken up at 4am by another severe thunderstorm, eventually got back to sleep before having to get up at 7am and be on the road by 8am, had a monster of a drive today 789km from Thunder Bay on the West coast of Lake Superior to Sault Ste. Marie on the East Coast of Lake Superior. Stopped after 3 hours in a town called Marathon, where we had lunch in a small café in their local mall. A few hours further down the road we stopped at White River the Birth Place of Winnie the Pooh (this one is for my sister Lucy) On August 24th 1914 (Lucy’s Birthday, although not 1914) Lieutenant Harry Coleburn bought a new born bear cub from this spot and named it Winnie after his home town Winnipeg, When he went to fight in France he donated the bear to London Zoo on 19th Dec 1914, and it was visited by many including A.A.Milne and her son Christopher who both fell in love with it and so she illustrated the bear a present to her son Christopher and that is where Winnie the Pooh originated from. Anyway after a brief stop and a photo (for Lucy, although Jill was also very excited) we carried on and stopped at Batchawana Bay so Jill could go to the beach. Then carried on into Sault Ste Marie which is half in Michigan, USA and half in Ontario, Canada, We checked into a hotel by the waterfront, although our room overlooks the hotel roof! I choose the hotel as it was the closest to the local casino. Visited the local mall and found a sports bar for dinner and beer.
Got woken up at 4am by another severe thunderstorm, eventually got back to sleep before having to get up at 7am and be on the road by 8am, had a monster of a drive today 789km from Thunder Bay on the West coast of Lake Superior to Sault Ste. Marie on the East Coast of Lake Superior. Stopped after 3 hours in a town called Marathon, where we had lunch in a small café in their local mall. A few hours further down the road we stopped at White River the Birth Place of Winnie the Pooh (this one is for my sister Lucy) On August 24th 1914 (Lucy’s Birthday, although not 1914) Lieutenant Harry Coleburn bought a new born bear cub from this spot and named it Winnie after his home town Winnipeg, When he went to fight in France he donated the bear to London Zoo on 19th Dec 1914, and it was visited by many including A.A.Milne and her son Christopher who both fell in love with it and so she illustrated the bear a present to her son Christopher and that is where Winnie the Pooh originated from. Anyway after a brief stop and a photo (for Lucy, although Jill was also very excited) we carried on and stopped at Batchawana Bay so Jill could go to the beach. Then carried on into Sault Ste Marie which is half in Michigan, USA and half in Ontario, Canada, We checked into a hotel by the waterfront, although our room overlooks the hotel roof! I choose the hotel as it was the closest to the local casino. Visited the local mall and found a sports bar for dinner and beer.
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