Eastbound and down

We drive through Winnipeg in the morning rush hour traffic and pick up the Trans-Canada once more - a coyote crosses the road up ahead. We pass the longitudinal midpoint of Canada, we change to Eastern Standard Time and join the Atlantic watershed. The highway splits when we are back in Ontario and we take the southern scenic route past The Lake of the Woods for Fort Frances.
We decide to step it up for Thunder Bay stopping briefly at Kakabeka Falls on the approach to the town. We overnight at the Valhalla Inn by the airport for sentimental reasons - we spent the first night of our honeymoon at the sister hotel in Toronto. An interesting controversy arises at dinner ($46 for two) - wine is sold by the glass in 5oz glasses whereas it is half-a-litre in a carafe. Nobody knows how many oz to the litre or which is the better deal - I opt for two 5oz glasses at $5 each.
For old time readers Thunder Bay used to be known as Fort William-Port Arthur - it remains a blue-collar town. We have a picnic breakfast at the Terry Fox scenic lookout to the east of town, with a wonderful view of Lake Superior.
Many dread the three-day ride through Ontario, not least the truckers, to get back to Toronto - but the scenery compares with anything out west.
Now in Schreiber, ON for pitstop and blog at the town library. Hi to Jack Kellett.