Surprise Sister

Well we managed to sneak into my sister's neighbour hood. parking our vehicles down the road, and walking to the driveway. I had called her earlier to make sure she was home. When I got to driveway I called her again, and rang the door bell at the same time. She answered the door and stood there and stared at me before she realized it was me and started to scream, yelling Leon....

finally she gave me a hug...and said what are you doing here?

Then all of a sudden she realized Bob was standing back taking pictures.
Finally I really suprised !!!

GOTCHA LITTLE SISTER

The People you Meet

We had just stopped at the Travel center after entering Alberta. Bob noticed a canary yellow Gold Wing bike and thought to himself now way could this be his friend. There was a bunch from Orillia that was riding to Alberta to the stampede and left around the same time we did. Sure enough it was the group that he rides with on Thursday nights. Al and Bob have coffee together at Donut Line every day. Al was just amazed at the size of the fields. He as driving his riding bunch crazy with his ohs and ahs.

Camping in Regina

Even when we are camping I can still check our Internet. A lot of camp grounds are all WiFi now. If you camping site isn't in the hot spot usually at the club house you can find everyone. It is funny as the camp ground we stayed at had lawn chairs and a table for the people to sit and everyone was sitting around with there lap tops and checking mail or whatever. We were lucky because our camp site was in the hot spot.

Bob cooking our supper. First he had to put together to new Barb-Que I bought for our trip, small but very practical.

I got to make breakfast, I cheated and we had oatmeal and fruit. Healthy and filling, good for a long days run. Our aim is to get to High River Alberta today. My sister does not know we are coming so this will be fun.

Manitoba & Sask

We finally got to cross out of Ontario into Manitoba. It seem to take forever to get through Northern Ontario. Very pretty to travel and we seen the Goose, and Winnie the Pooh's Home town.

Our greatest enjoyment of Northern Ontario was the young cub we seen. He ran across the road and made it safely to the other

side. When he got there, he stop and looked back as if to say
Ha Ha I made it.

Saskatchewan was flat until we got closer to the Alberta Boarder.

We came across a family of ducks. Momma duck was trying to get her little family to the other side of the highway. She had two babies and when she she realized she couldn't get across safely she flew back, one of the babies did a summer salt in the air. It was really quite funny to watch.

Bob and I thought it would be good to put bumper stickers on the trailer. Does that make us look like world travelers? Nay just fun to do.

Stuck in Kenora

We pulled into Kenora around 5 pm Last night (Monday). This is what our traveling train looks like from our motel room. We watch the weather channel when we arrive at each location and we didn't like what was suppose to be coming across upper Ontario.

When we got up in the morning it was really over cast and the weather channel had a Thunderstorm watch out for this area and into Winnipeg. We deceided after a couple of hours that it would be safer to spend another day. After talking to the front desk Bob found out that the down town was suppose to be a 20 minute walk away. So off we go on foot to explore. We went to the park, and found this Bear. It was a loonie bank, a huge bank. The money collected is used for the children of the town. Imagine trying to fill this one eh!! I hope to be able to get back ont he road tomorrow. Nothing ever became of the storm.

White River-Pooh's Home Town

You can't go through White River without stopping at

Winnie the Pooh's Home Park. Winnie was started here and they take great delight in having a park dedicated just to him. If you go around in August they have Home Coming Week. Who can resist the Pooh Bear?

Hubby is a wee bit cold here. We had been on the Road since 8 am and this picture was taken around 10. He had drove through a couple of rain burst and wasn't happy about it.

I on the other hand was really warm and dry. I felt so bad for him. This all happened early in the day. After visiting Pooh's Park we stopped for some gas and coffee then we started on the Road again.

All of a sudden there was a rough spot in the road. I tried to slow down but didn't get slowed down enough in time. I watched in horror as the trailer with my bike on it went into the air and when it hit the road again I thought for sure I was going to loose my bike. One set of straps let go but thankfully the other side held firm and stopped it from going over the side of the trailer.

I got pulled over to wait for Bob to come back to me and after I stopped shaking we straightened up my bike and tightened up the straps. Thank goodness every time we stop I check the straps to make sure they haven't loosened up any.

Kekabeca Falls

My hubby talking to the local Police officer. Actually he was buttering him up as we didn't put anything into the meter, we were only stopping for a moment!

We stopped at a place called Kekebeca Falls and spent the night. The Legend behind the falls is that A Fair Indian Maiden who was the much loved daughter of the Tribal chief. One Day when all the young men where off the women of the camp found out that there was a tribe of unfriendly Native's camped up stream. The daughter decided to go for a canoe ride, when she was captured by the nasty tribe she pretended to go against her people and agreed to lead them back to her camp. She lead them in single file down the river, there are different endings to the story, one is she jumps to the shore and the others go over the falls. The other story said she gave up her life and went over the fall with the others to save her village.