Day 19 - July 18 - Belleville to Sudbury

A refreshed unit - with profound thanks to Keith and Kathy, Dylan, Laura and Kaitlin - left Belleville, going north to Canada's famous Algonquin Park (famous in my family for our granfather's recording of "A Day in the Life of Algonquin Park" which - when we were teenagers, was often a big hit at parties at about 2:00 a.m.)

Coffee in small Brantford at yet another breathtakingly busy Canadian Tim Hortons! Where does their clientele come from even in small communities?

The park is pretty impressive. We finally saw a moose, and in happy circumstances, a healthy distance from the highway. We've been warned again and again and again in both Canada and tghe U.S. to be on a sharp lookout for moose near to or on the highway. We've been gratified by not being surprised by one as we come around a corner, but it was a little disappointing not to see one before.

We passed a huge line-up of cars within the park, and stopped to see what it was. A young woman asked me rather incredulously whether we were attending the electronic music festival.

We weren't.

Headed off towards Huntsville, where it began to rain torrentially. We stopped for lunch, and it had eased up somewhat, but rode much of the day in varying amounts of rain.

Drove through North Bay, and on to Sudbury, where we had dinner at a Keg. The server asked us if we'd been to the Keg before (it's relatively new to Sudbury). Wanted to say, "Son, I was the waiter in the Keg training film before you were born!". Didn't.

Tomorrow off to Marquette Michigan - the most direct route home.

Today we got under the 4,000 km mark on the "and back" part of the trip.