June
19/06, Monday Day 46 4399 Kms
Golden
Sands Motel, Golden Lake, Ontario 127 Kms ~ 5:50 Hrs
Golden
Sands
Vacation Land. $77.28/night
Edmonton
Oilers lose game 7 of
the Stanley Cup Final
to
Carolina Hurricanes.
Woke
up wet. There was 100% humidity in the tent to begin with and then it
leaked. Rain fell hard most of the night with occasional lightning.
Water dripped on my face, shoulder and stomach intermittently. Water
from the ground wicked up into the foot of my sleeping bag. But it
wasn't cold.
The
power was out when we got up so we had to wait for it to come back on
before we could use the dryer. It was one of the few mornings that I
was keener to hit the road than Doug but we made coffee and ate
snacks, chatted with Ryan and got another late-ish start.
Ryan
was a kid about 12 years old. The night before we had spent some time
talking to him, his sister and their father as they used the laundry
facilities. They'd come up from the states to spend a week canoeing
around Algonquin Park. We'd talked about travel and politics. It
turned out that Doug and I knew more about US politics and foreign
policy than the father.
The
sky threatened rain for much of the day but it never materialized.
Once again 100% humidity and sweat running in my eyes 'til I finally
wised up a bit and tied my Tanzanian flag around
my head
as a bandana.
The
people along Highway 60 seem a simple folk. I asked several about
distance to Eganville. Some gave blank stares, some gave driving
time. When I asked them to convert driving time to kilometres none of
them could do it.
In
Barry's Bay, at Generations Restaurant, we chatted with the waitress
and told her that we had come from Vancouver. She asked us several
times where we had started, after a bit I figured that she meant
'that morning.' I told her Algonquin and she asked if we'd flown into
the park and started our ride there.
The
4th repetition of "Vancouver" seemed to sink in.
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