The world was in the throws of COVID and its myriad of restrictions and whatnot when we last were in Thunder Bay. Then, it was clear that things were no longer being maintained, even stuff just abandoned. On this day, the second on our journey…
I don’t remember how I discovered this place or its location. I know I have had it on my vast list of places to explore ever since I started making a list of places to go. Jumbo’s Cove Train Tunnel would be one of our…
Okay, it is a rock garden: just rocks and one statue thingy. I know, it just rocks—boring rocks. But it’s not boring when you get to think of it. How are rocks made? How they come to be. What are they made of? The history…
Once you get to the rock, the view is amazing. Getting to the rock is one devil of a time, probably why it is called Devil’s Rock. It is a mere one and a half kilometres so on a good, flat surface, just 15 minutes…
D-I-V-O-R-C-E Obviously on such long road trips we listen to a lot on music. Charlene can be heard singing along to the songs and as anyone knows, the last song has a tendency to get stuck in one’s head even when it has long stopped…
It was a sad reason why we were up in Thunder Bay for our first visit to this northern Ontario city. My wife’s father had died, and she needed to get away. We did a rapid, four-day round trip to this city just months after…
Earl is a 9 ton, all steel bison that is on the side of the road. It is hard to miss when driving in the Earlton area. I had decided to pull over for this mini-stop and a quick picture. I really appreciate that there…
On September 11, 2018, the culmination of a year and a half of medical tests, a two-week delay, and finally admitting that I needed it done, I had surgery on my heart to correct two of the congenital disabilities that had plagued me all my…
