I spent this past holiday in North Bay, ON. Which is in the very eastern chunk of Ontario. The trip started on the Friday when we took some folks to Kenora, ON and then continued on to North Bay to spend a couple of nights in preparation for a trip back on Sunday afternoon.
It was almost 3hrs to Kenora. And Ontario is so big, that it was another 2hrs and 22 mins to get to North Bay.
I had never been to North Bay and was interested to see the area. Well, it took all of about 30 mins of driving around in our rental car and we discovered that there was absolutely nothing there worth checking out! We came up with the plan to go and visit Quebec the next day, as we were very close to the border.
So bright and early on Canada Day we hoped in our rental POS (Chevy Cobalt) and we were off for the land of the frenchies. It was only about a 30min drive east and we crossed over the Ottawa river and entered Quebec at the town of Temiscaming. It was a quaint little town that had primarily been created around a large mill on the river. It was neat to see the little town and we took a hike and found some neat waterfalls and scenic viewpoints around the area. We even took a turn down a gravel road at one point and just kept driving. Right up until the point where the car could barely fit on the road anymore. :)
There was supposed to be fireworks that night down by the lake, but thunderstorms rolled into town that night and quashed those plans.
2 nights in North Bay was certainly enough. On Sunday afternoon we departed for Edmonton with a fuel stop in Winnipeg. We were fighting headwinds associated with the Jet Stream the entire flight back. It took 7hrs to make the trip to Edmonton. Luckily my iPod held up for the majority of the flight back or I would have been quite bored. The weather was great for the return flight except for our fuel stop in Winnipeg. It was very thunderstormy, and we barely got in and out.
I am now spending the next few days preparing to go away for the majority of July for my Jet training in Dallas. So it's quite the scramble right now to tie down many loose ends. I leave on Monday and will spend pretty much everyday up until then doing some sort of preparations. More on all the jet stuff in another post.
Here are a couple of photos, just raw from the camera from my North Bay weekend. I just don't have time to make them shine with photoshop other than for resizing and this is just but a couple of the 300 pictures I did take. :)
On the tarmac in North Bay, ON (CYYB)
Temiscaming QC!
Me with the Ottawa river behind
Taking the Cobalt offroad and finally coming to a point where we had to back up out of!
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