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Monday June 5 2006
Sunny
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We hit the road early, as we are hoping to be past Lake of the Woods
by the end of today. Outside Rossport we saw our first bear, a smallish
black bear which was investigating a garbage container and ran for
cover. Later, we discovered that while we were overtaking a long double
truck, we had missed a moose and calf. Map
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These Lake Superior roads are truly amazing. The road runs through
manmade clefts in the rock which still bear the drill marks from
the blasting.
You often see improvised Inukshuks, vaguely man shaped constructions
of stone representing "he who shows the way".
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In the Canadian Arctic, an inukshuk
is an imposing construction but, of recent years, simple ones
are appearing as markers on any available rock surface: Canadians
were here!!
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Near Upsala
we crossed the Central Standard Time zone line and turned our
watches back an hour.
Right after Upsala, we had a long wait while an accident was
cleaned up and a truck driver let me climb into the driver's seat
of his tractor trailer. It was very high up but had an amazing
view.
The driver had been driving that road for 35 years.
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We stayed overnight in Vermilion
Bay. We were lucky to get off the road before the biggest
rain storm that I have seen for a long time.
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