We spent the summer months at home in Tweed, where I explored the opportunities available for house-sitting in Mexico and beyond for the coming winter months. We managed to secure two sits – one in Patzcuaro, Michoacan, Mexicofor 3 weeks and one in San Ramon, Costa Rica for 2 1/2 months. So our plan was to trailer our Tenere to Texas, find storage for the truck and trailer and continue our journey from there. As it turned out, Bill’s brother offered to drive the truck to Texas and bring it back home so we could be free to just continue on to the Alaskan part of our journey in the spring. This is how it played out.
Twin Lakes Campground,
Moonbeam, Ontario, Canada Twin Lakes Campground is a beautiful campground near Kapuskasing, Ontario that is set up around a couple of large ponds. It is mostly a seasonal facility for people who have trailers planted there permanently as cottages, but there is a small, wooded…
Masala Grill
Thunderbay, Ontario, Canada Delicious Indian food here instead of camp food. Yay! We ate Chicken Korma, Palak Paneer, Rice and naan bread for two Cost: $40.85CAD 170 Algoma Street North Thunder Bay, ON P7A 5A1
Trowbridge Falls Campground
Thunderbay, Ontario, Canada Nice Campground if a bit pricy at $32.00CAD.(for just a tent!) Plenty of large tent sites with grass, but the downside of that is there are tons of mosquitoes and the perimeter of our site has lots of poison ivy. Still, a…
Chicken Chef Family Restaurant
Langenburg, Saskatchewan, Canada Even though this is billed as a chicken restaurant we actually stopped here for breakfast. Delicious french toast for me and a classic breakfast of eggs, bacon, and homefries for Bill. Cost $19.00CAD These small town restaurants are one of the highlights…
Churchbridge Campground
Churchbridge, Saskatchewan, Canada This is a nice quiet campground with large grassy sites. You can choose whether you want to be in the sun or the shade. There are a couple of picnic shelters in case it rains. There are clean bathrooms and hot showers,…
Prairie Showers
Foam Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada Oh boy! We have spent the last two hours trying to scoot between two different storm systems. The sky ahead is blue and the storm front starkly delineated. Just as we passed through a small town called Foam Lake we made…
History Hunting in Nokomis,
Nokomis, Saskatchewan, Canada We stopped in to the Nokomis museum to see if there was family information there. There was. As it turned out,the building that used to house Bill’s grandfather’s hardware store was moved from its original location and attached to the the…
Lunch stop @ the Radisson Cafe
Viscount, Saskatchewan, Canada You can only ride so long without food and on the prairies there aren’t many options except what you find along the highway or in villages. This lunch stop served great denver sandwiches and bacon and tomato sandwiches. Along with coffee this…
Vegreville Kinsmen Campground
Vegreville, Alberta, Canada We used WikiCamps CA quite a bit while travelling across the prairies. It was pretty good at directing us to reasonable campgrounds such as this one on the edge of Vegreville, Alberta. We didn’t realize that the campground was on both side of…
Lunch stop @ Fox Creek
Fox Creek, Alberta, Canada We enjoyed a lunch of clam chowder here, with me adding garlic bread and Bill a roast beef sandwich, of course washed down with coffee. Cost: $21.00CAD The weather has been warm +19C all morning, with variable.clouds, but its looking pretty…
Hythe Municipal Campground
Hythe, Alberta, Canada Nice municipal campground with power, drinking water, flush toilets and showers all for $15. for a tent. ($25 for a motorhome) Bathrooms are located in a re-purposed caboose. They are old and showers could use a good scrubbing and new curtains, but…
Spanish Encounter at the Blue Bell Motel
Blue Bell Motel, Fort Nelson, BC The day had been wet and cool, so we weren’t inclined to look for camping. Instead we checked in at this motel in Fort Nelson. It was nothing special but we still had to fork out $84.75CAD for the…
Muncho lake, BC
Muncho Lake, BC This is a pretty area with lots of nice campgrounds, but it is too early to stop for the day and even though the weather overhead is good, the weather up ahead looks ominous. That seems to be the pattern right now. …
Liard River Lodge
Liard River, BC We were told by other travelers that the Liard River area has really nice hotsprings and so we had intended to stay there to enjoy them. But, we arrived around noon and went into this lodge to have some lunch. After discussing…
