9/19/12 White River to Wawa, ON

For this 57 mile day, we started with the sun shining and 35 degrees, wind in our face still.  It was an easy ride but the wind is getting old.  We thought for sure the Canadian part would be wind at our backs.  Unlike hills that go up and down, the wind blows whatever is pleases.  And, don't forget about the rain.  Even though I had booties on, my feet were cold and wet.  I had full fingered gloves and riding my hands were warm but every stop they got cold again.  Next time I'm wearing some waterproof gloves.  We're upgrading our lunches to surf-n-turf.  Tuna fish and Spam, sounds good, eh?  There we were, eating our surf-n-turf on the veranda(under the overhang) of the now closed, for sale, decrepit Lakewood Motel overlooking Catfish Lake in the middle of nowhere.  Sounds great, wish you all were here.  We have to make fun of the situation.  In fact, lots of motels are like this.

We arrived at the High Falls Cabins just outside of Wawa right off the highway.  The owners, Anna and Zenon are from Poland and have been in Canada for 23 years, 5 years running the cabins.  Absolutely wonderful people.  Like most of these cabins, they're seasonal and in the winter the owners take other jobs or travel.  Anna and Zenon travel all over the world.  After getting cleaned up and things drying, Zenon drove us to the Best Northern Lodge down the road a mile for dinner.  We had a nice Polish dinner, talked to several of the other diners there and then he picked us up.  It's so fun to be able to strike up a conversation with anyone.  One man told us that north of Wawa is the badlands and diamonds have been found in the rocks.  DeBeers has since bought that property. These lodges/cabins have guests that keep coming back for years.  This is truly what we came to experience on this trip.

The weather is scheduled to be wet for the next few days.  Tom asked Anna and Zenon if they had any guests that were going east and could take our Bobs to the next stop.  Our original plan was to camp at Agawa Campground but with the weather Tom found the Twilight Resort at Montreal River Harbour just east of there right off the road.  Sure enough they had a couple of guys, Tom and Tim, that were up canoeing and would be willing to help out.  In fact, they could take us all, bikes, gear and us to the Soo if we wanted.  Very tempting.

Surf -N-Turf for a gourmet lunch, yum.