Lake Superior Circle Tour - Day 2

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And we are off to Thunder Bay!  Shannon's first trip to Canada and we had a great ride.  The Transcontinental is a nice road!  We experienced very little traffic and passing lanes were convenient placed.  I brought my radar detector and man I'm glad I did.  The cops were writing tickets like crazy!


Don't pay attention to the hours, they mean NOTHING!

Canadian Geese are called Canada Goose in Canada.  (Source Skid Robinson, Sudbury, CAN)




Hey, we get to see some lake!

Now were talking!  Love it!



Difficult to tell, but you can see the bottom very easy, very clear water.

Yup, worth the trip!


Loons!

Shannon sure can get some good pictures
 
But I'm the selfie King :)



We had the road pretty much to ourselves...Canada was on Holiday (including the construction crews)

Handicapped in Canada looks difference across the border







Food was awesome!  Pirogues were the best! 
Stop here if you are by Wawa, ONT

Nice flag :)

Wawa's everywhere!


Really, the only clouds we saw for the most part, was these pretty ones.




And the clouds seemed really low.



Shaka cloud?  Naw...




Awesome part of the ride; feet on the highway pegs with the cruise on, about 79 degrees and loving life


1 of only 12 or so.  Shannon swore they were gonna see the detector, but good thing we had it.







The yellow is growing on me.





Bike carrier on a bike


 
Terry Fox memorial, really glad we stopped.  Finally got our patch!

Thumbs up, great food here in Thunder Bay for dinner


Very good hard cider

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