Tuesday Aug 24 Wabakimi Lodge

Packing up is also easier if everyone helps out. It took longer than we'd like, but it got done and we were on the road again.

We stopped for a very early dinner at the Terry Fox Monument that is just off the highway east of Thunder Bay. This was our last stop at "civilization". We were warned to top up our gas tank. Or we might not make it back out.

And there is the monument. My poor home schooled kids knew nothing of Terry. They haven't even done one of the ubiquitous Terry Fox runs that Canadian elementary schools run. So now they got an explanation of who Terry Fox was.

We completed our three hours of diving, heading north up to a certain town? called Armstrong, but turning off the main drag before then to our lodgings.

We wandered around outside while Dad sorted out the arrangements. We have to plan our route this evening, since we still have no idea where we are going in the park.

There are lots of interesting things to look at inside, books to read,

and beds to sleep in with a roof over our heads. So nice, since it is raining overnight and in the morning when we wake up is still pretty dreary looking!

Our route is planned at last! We have to take the outfitters advice because we don't understand the size and difficulty of the park, and we get, as part of our "deal" laminated copies of insets of the route, which include details like where the portages and campsites are.