Reveille at 0700 today. 34 degrees outside, slightly warmer in tent. Overcast, light sprinkles, no wind. Page 113 (of tbe Lewis and Clark book, Undaunted Courage)
Slept like like a log last night. Maybe that's because i was sleeping ON a log. Actually, i was relegated to the ground since both dogs had expropriated my old green air mattress. Well, they'll be surprised tonight when that old green mattress takes on 21st century proportions with our new queen-size purchase. Erde undoubtedly will believe she is the rightful occupant since it is a "queen" model. As for me, sleeping in my bed back home will be very strange when i return after not having slept in a bed for more than a month.
Breakfast was over and done with by 0800. The dogs get kibbles (venison and potato because of erde's pancreatic insufficiency) mixed with some slamon or tuna fish. Erde refuses to eat it without the fish. My breakfasts are always the same, too. But i get coffee, orange juice, two packets of oatmeal with trail mix in it. I have been taking those small boxes of soy milk but decided that they are not needed because i'd rather have the oatmeal warm, so the dogs get the soy milk as a treat, until it runs out. Besides, in a few days, the temperature will drop below freezing during the night, which means the soy milk will freeze.
In decided to get my reading done in the tent this morning until it warms up a bit. The dogs are more content sitting outside (see photo). I'm not surprised about Erde's wanting to do that as that has been her preference since she was a pup, but i am about Leben. He usually prefers to be where i am. In an hour or so i'm start the day's chores, cleaning the defender, laundry, learning my new camera (this photo was taken on the ipad), hunting down some C batteries, setting up erde's new mattress, driving to Kiosk, another Algonquin PP camp not too far away that i wanted to stay in, and preparing for our 300 mile drive tmorrow to Kettle Lake PP, where the temperature will be a few degrees colder. Then, the next day, we journey another 300 miles west to Pukaskwa National Park on Lake Superior for a few days, and then 200 miles north onto Thunder Bay and Sleeping Giant Provincial Park (my 4th visit) for a few days. There i will decide whe this journey goes from there, e.g., to Banff, where there will undoubtedly be snow, or eventually home.
This park i am in now is the perfect place for this point in the journey. It is not too far from the highway 17, about 30 miles from North Bay. The site we are in is, again, the best in the camp as far as i am concerned, overlooking that lake/river, not too far from the comfort station, which has the warmest showers in all the parks i have stayed in. The dogs love the site, too, as the few hardy campers venture past it from time ti time, which lets them feel that they are doing their job of protecting me.
Time to get back to L&C. I find the similarities between their adventure and ours absolutely remarkable. The only difference is that i am doing this one with 21st century technology. But their thnking through and then working through problems is identical.
Ed from Champlain PP.
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