TGTH: Day 26 (October 25th, 2010)

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Kilometres Remaining: 4,099/11,978

Route: Thunder Bay, Ontario to Winnipeg, Manitoba

French Toast. Yum. Sure, the host was still strange, but still nice. We got into the car and headed out.

Thunder Bay sits on/near one (if not the) largest Amethyst deposits in North America. There is a mine that you can go to during the summer, but this being off season we did not get the chance. We did manage to make it to the mine’s store however where I was able to buy a piece or two of Amethyst. Unfortunately, stuff costs money, and when you don’t have much money you don’t get to buy much stuff. Oh well.

We headed out of Thunder Bay and towards Kakabeka Falls which is evidently the “Niagra of the North,” and the second largest natural waterfall in Canada (next to Niagra). Yep. It was pretty... awesome. So, the weather was still gloomy, and overcast, and wet, but we managed to stand of the edge of these falls and ogle the falls. The water at the top was still as glass, and then the pored off in a white torrent breaking down the broken stairs of the crumbling rock. Again, this is one of those things that I cannot describe that well, if you want to see, look at the photos and you will get it. Wow.

Now it was time to drive. And drive. And drive. There was not much to see but the gorgeous wild and the waving arms of the Inuksuks as we passed them. We stopped for lunch in Kenora, Ontario which gave us a bad impression. That Boston Pizza will forever haunt my memories of Kenora. Ok ok ok, it was not that bad, but it was not good.

We continued driving for just about forever and then made it to Winnipeg. We were to stay with some family, but this was our closest connection. By that I mean that we had not really sorted it out before hand and that we only had a brief e-mail to say that it would work out. Stopped on the outskirts of the city we called and got no answer. Oh well. There was an A & W there to give us fries, and we were able to watch Grey’s Anatomy in the car. We called again with success, and got the address we needed.

We headed to the house of our hosts and mingled. I had not seen them for many years (I think my grandparents 50^th Wedding Anniversary, which is almost 10 years ago given their 60^th is next year). It was good to re-meet the extended family and to get to know them. We ended up mingling for a while and then watching Blood Diamond (which was exceptional). Afterwards we headed to bed on the hide-a-bed in the basement.