Day 32 – Luxury (Thunder Bay – Rest Day)

Rest day was the usual Blah! Blah! Blah! (or yadda yadda yadda for the Seinfeld fans out there!) - big breakfast (x2) laundry, replace rear tire on bike, get stuff from bike store, clean & lube chain on bike, replace replaced rear tire on bike (my patch of the sidewall cut on the replaced tire didn’t hold) and ended with a trip to the $6 buffet at the Lakehead University cafeteria. A bunch of us went and each ate about 5 full plates of dinner.

The key highlight of this rest stop was that after 32 days of camping in all sorts of conditions, we got to sleep indoors in real beds last night and tonight – well, I got a cot but it was very comfortable. I thought I could make it through a day without taking a picture, but the cot was too tempting.

No fighting off mosquitoes in the shower or at dinner, no running out of hot water in the shower, no loonies for the shower, no waiting in line in the truck for someone to unplug their cellphone, laptop, iTouch, GPS, camera charger so you could recharge your device(s) (did I mention that we were roughing it!), no rolling up a wet tent fly and groundcloth in the tent bag, etc., etc., etc... I’ll have to stop there or I might get awarded the “princess” tiara for complaining. It is not really a complaint, just a list of some of the things we have to deal with/adapt to as campers. It really is a lot of fun!

Tomorrow we start our long hilly ride up and down, and up and down, the Canadian Shield along the north shore of Lake Superior. Pretty remote areas so updating the blog may have to wait until we get nearer Sault Ste. Marie.