The Land that Keeps on Growing

Two days ago, I spent hours on end, watching trees go by: deciduous, evergreen, short, full, tall, sparse, backed by dark clouds, then blue horizon.

We drove from Sault Ste. Marie to Thunder Bay, the city whose moniker is "Superior by nature". From the town of Marathon to Thunder Bay, the driving experience is stunningly beautiful, varied and unabashedly Canadian.

Visitors who come here from small countries the size of Germany, Italy, France or Luxembourg, must lose their breath at the breadth of our land, and our lakes. Both the drive up here and Lake Superior seem to go on forever.

Our trip from Sudbury to Sault Ste. Marie sported a more rugged and less varied beauty and so was less eventful. However, the two-day stopover in "The Soo" was a surprise.

We stayed on the water at the Delta (used to be the Holiday Inn), ate at Muio's, an italian eatery around for the last 42 years -- delicious, visited the Canadian Bushplane Heritage Centre and took the Algoma Railway Tour Train up to the Canyon and back -- a full day affair with both breakfast and lunch ON the train!

I have also discovered an organic, non-drowsy version of Gravol that is saving the trip for all of us. My system does not like constant and chaotic motion.

We're here in Thunder Bay until Sunday morning, will stop in Wawa on the way back to cut the drive. Imagine naming your town Wawa. So awesome.

On Vacation from My Day Job

It's one month since my last post and I am feeling a long way from Burlington, a long way from home and a long way from writing. I have read that writers never go on vacation. Even while 'resting', we incubate. That's what happens to me: I incubate.

So while Eric, Josh and I scuttle from one neat little northern Ontario town to another, I incubate until I can find an afternoon or a few early morning hours to write.

We'll be in Sudbury for about another hour; then we head to Sault Ste-Marie, pronounced: Soo-Sent-Marie. Glad I've had the chance to blog. It's the first step to writing again.

June

Just wanted to let you all know that I'm heading to Newfoundland for a week (Jun 5- 11) then Montreal for a day (Jun 12). We'll be celebrating my sister's 40th birthday. I'll be celebrating my 40th birthday, too,...again! :)

While in Newfoundland, if I am inspired, I may write.