We got up this morning to a surprise: fog. We haven't even thought about fog all this trip, until this morning. Here's what the truck side of the Husky station looked like this morning as I fed Miss Travelaire her breakfast at the gas pump. It turns out, that if you spend money at the Husky Truck Stop, then you can get a free shower. So, after having dined in the restaurant last night, we both were able to use the showers, and they were really good showers (for the truckers, of course), not like 75% of the campgrounds we visit.
The fog wasn't thick enough to make the driving too bad. My main concern was keeping ahead of the trucks, which seemed to be plentiful today. They all want to go approximately 15 to 20 km over the speed limit and it's only a two lane road. It's a little disconcerting to have a huge Freightliner about 10 feet behind our rear bumper wanting to go 10 or 15 km faster. But every so often there is an extra passing lane, so by speeding up and slowing down at the right times, I could mostly work it so the trucks could get past on these passing lanes.
The road west of Nipigon was quite smooth for a change almost the whole way today. But I said to Doreen it will get bumpy just before we get to our campsite, just to rattle your brain before we get in. And sure enough, for the last 30 km or so, it went back to the same bumpity bump bump! The only other bumpy part was within the city limits of Thunder Bay. The Thunder Bay and Sault Ste Marie politicians seem to be having a contest as to who can do the least road maintenance and still get re-elected.
We (especially Doreen) were keen on a real campground today, since we have been just parking for the last few nights. Doreen wanted to do a laundry, and we needed to empty our holding tanks. So, I had picked out a couple of campgrounds from the internet, that I thought might possibly be open. We are about one week too early; almost every campground in Ontario is scheduled to open Friday, the 16th of May. The first campground we tried was still closed. But the person there said she thought she saw RVs at another campground down the road, and sure enough we found that one had just opened this week.
So, here we are at Wabigoon Lake RV Park (N49 42 55.8, W92 35 43.6), near a town of a few people called Wabigoon. Now that's just 20 km east of Dryden, a town of a few more people, and 330 km west of Thunder Bay, a town of over 100K people. And we're now about 200 km east of the Manitoba border, so we're making progress towards getting out of this Ontario place (about as bad as Texas, you know!) This RV park has all the facilities (although a little rustic), electric, sewer, water, laundry, showers, WiFi. But, there's an ominous sign on the water tap saying not to drink it! And, for the WiFi to work, you need to walk down to the office. But, if we wanted better facilities, we should pay a horrendous fee, rather than just an exorbitant fee, don't you think?
And, this afternoon, we came upon a sign to the effect that we should set our clocks back an hour!
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