The Long Journey
It takes more than 10 hours to drive from our house to Lake Superior Provincial Park, not counting stops for fuel and food. Leaving the house at 8 am, and accounting for a lunch and dinner break, we would have been setting up our tent as the sun was setting, and we'd be too exhausted to enjoy it. So we broke up the trip. We were travelling with one of our Paddlefolk. She was in her car, with her camping gear and kayak. We met up at the Tim Horton's in Arnprior, along Highway 17. And she would follow us along that roadway—the Trans-Canada Highway—all the way. We stopped in Mattawa for a bathroom break and to allow DW to take over the driving for our friend, who was tired. DW would drive the second car to North Bay, where we stopped at a Loblaws to grab a sandwich and drink, and then at Duchesnay Falls, where we ate that lunch. From there, we continued on, past Sudbury, at which point I realized that I had never driven further on the Trans-Canada. A few years earlier, DW and ...
