Busy day today, as usual.
Read a bit until the rain let up and it warmed up (temp this morning---34 degrees) now i am at the point where lewis met up with clark and their partnership was forged forever.
After the rain let up, did the usual quotidien chores of life on the road and set out for matawawa to get some C batteries for the new addition to our family. Pleasant little town (see photo). Picked up some fresh produce before i headed back to camp to set up mattress, the 3 stages of which i sent photos earlier. The dogs are sound asleep on it now and i'll be darned if i can figure out where i'll fit on it. I'll figure out something.
Got my new camera's battery charged and the camera up and running. Easier to use than the casio, although i like the casio, when t works that is.
Leben seems to be getting stronger and stronger each day. He is less reluctant to go for walks and even took the lead tonight. My guess is that the five to six walks a a day are helping rebuild his strength. He even runs after the ball, albeit awkwardly, but i can live with that. Although it would have been easier for me to manage him as a paralyzed dog, if that was to be the next step down for him, my guess is that it is more enjoyable for him to be able to walk, albeit slowly, now anyway.
There's been a change of itinerary. After speaking with the seasoned campers, Alden and Shelia, who just moved in down a few sites from me, tomoorow we head east 160 miles to Killarney PP on Georgian Bay off Lake Huron. Apparently it is the crown jewel of the ontario provincial parks, which should be something to see because i have yet to stay in one of the parks here that would not qualify for the same acolade.
Then, a few days later, we will head east 320 miles to Agawa Bay PP O
on Lake Superior where we stayed last year, for one night. After that, we will head north 200 miles to Pukaskwa National Park on Lake Superior for several days before heading 220 miles after that to Thunde Bay and Sleeping Giant Provincial Park. After that, who knows? I am still inclined to push on to sure-to-be-snowy Banff in the spectacular Canadian Rockies, which would take us at least four days of intensive riding to get there, and if we returned to DC after that, we would have at least a week of intensive driving head of us. I'll see what the situation is at thunder bay, but i hve to make a decision since i have to renew or return my stellite phone by October 10.
I cannot help but repeat what i probably have written alredy about this trip several times, that it is so different than past trips when i had ships or ferries to catch and had to move on each day. What it is doing to my constitution i do not know, but it has to be positive. The advantage i have is that i have no commitments back home waiting for me so i can make a decision to stay put or move on purely on my feeling about a camp. This the the 4th camp i have stayed in for three days and that seems to be a preferable length of stay. What makes it all the more pleasant is the people you meet along the way.
Time to write in my journal, put in a few miles with L&C, play taps, and then figure out how i can get onto that new mattress of Erde's.
Ed from Champlain PP.
Ed Mulrenin
202-747-4704 (mobile)
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