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| Last updated: July 30, 2003 Copyright 2003, Jay LaRochelle |
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| It's the morning of Thursday, July 5, 2001, and we're ready with all the gear we'll need to take to CJ'01. Here the bus has just arrived at Clara Brenton School where our parents dropped us off, and the Scouts are loading their gear into the compartments underneath the bus. Looks like a pretty sweet bus we'll be living in for the next day or so! |
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| Here's another shot of the Scouts loading their gear into the compartment underneath the bus. |
| More photos coming soon!! |
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| Here I am, ready to board the bus Thursday morning. The woman in the white shirt boarding our bus was our driver from London to Charny, Quebec. |
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| Here's a classic for those highway buffs out there! Travelling eastbound on Highway 401 east of Coburg, Ontario on Thursday afternoon, we hit this solid traffic jam, that did not move an inch for over 45 minutes. While we waited, we watched the movie Big Daddy, and we watched out the windows with interest as other motorists got out of their cars to chat with other drivers, such as the woman in the black shirt in the foreground. Just when I thought I'd seen everything on the 401, I saw something unbelievable. Take a look at the left side of this photo. Yes, those are kids playing football in the centre median! Ironically, these kids were also PEI-bound Scouts from London, from another troop. A very rare sight on an Ontario 400-series highway indeed! Note also, in the lower left corner, our driver talking into an intercom, trying to find out what was going on. According to the O.P.P., there had been a major accident involving several trucks somewhere up ahead. Eventually we were diverted onto Highway 2, which we took east to Grafton before re-joining the 401. It was this day that I learned truly why we built the 401, as Highway 2 could not at all handle the amount of eastbound traffic that normally uses the 401 nowadays. It took us almost an hour to move 13 km. I guess this was a taste of what would have happened if the 401 was never built! |
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| It's now Friday July 6th, and we're in New Bruswick. To be exact, we're about to leave New Brunswick and take the Confederation Bridge to PEI. Here we are travelling eastbound on Highway 16, about to pass the interchange for Highway 955, with the start of the bridge in the background. |
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| Now we're on the Confederation Bridge. Note that you can barely see the shoreline at the end of the bridge. |
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| Another shot of the Confederation Bridge. Note the unusual highway lighting. |
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| We've been on this bridge for what seems like forever...and now we find out this bridge actually goes somewhere! Just a little bit further, and we'll be in PEI. |
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| Here we are! We made it to CJ! Now if only the bus could take us to our campsite...Time to offload! Please click 'next' to continue. |