We rarely stay at RV parks but this one at Wawa deserved a picture.
Something we do not see in Australia!
They are proud of her in her home-town of Sudbury. A whole museum for 1 person! Note how they save paint but still manage to show both English and French names.
Peter window-shopping for a polar bear.
Here he is, up very close and personal
Bonita wrote a comical description of our visit to 'Swim with the Polar Bears'. If you enjoy a good laugh, it is another post at http://peterandbonitas2010canadablog.blogspot.com/2010/08/swimming-with-polar-bears-by-bonita.html
If you want yet more on our 'Swim with the Polar Bears' experience, here is a 7 min video of us acting like excited kids when the very adult polar bear approached us in the pool.
Technology corner in Harvey with the yagi used to bring in stronger free wifi signals from places like libraries, Starbucks, Subway, etc
Wayne and Loretta Harvey from Sudbury who lent us their driveway to park in and took us on a tour of Sudbury. Many thanks!
Bonita’s great photo - should be a winner at our 4WD Club Photo competition this November
It's very common for RVs to park overnight in the Wal-Mart parking lot, but we had never seen this before!
Maggie Light who was selling ‘Mag Pies’ at a market in Midland
We had a lovely walk in Elora Gorge.
Mennonites are a Christian group who believe that they need to live a simple life and still today travel by horse and buggy. At Elora, west of Toronto, the municipal authorities have provided special parking for them,
and another special area for the horses
"I love you too! Give me a kiss" seems to say this pug at the home of
Steve and Louise Cako in Elora who also kindly offered to let us park in their driveway. We enjoyed supper and breakfast with them. Thanks!
More pictures of the Mennonites
Each Sunday morning, about 60 Mennonite horses and buggies rattle across this covered bridge in West Montrose to attend church, a scene little changed from 200 years ago.
Peter and Tasmeen Probst who live in Covered Bridge Drive close to the bridge also invited us to park in their driveway for the night. We enjoyed supper and breakfast with them. Many thanks!
These Canadians sure are a friendly bunch. Over a week or two, 4 separate families invited us to park overnight in their driveway! We were beginning to feel like stray dogs needing a home for the night.
Top billing for an aussi.
Jiffy Lube invited me to squeeze into their service bay. Harvey just made it with a couple of inches each side spare,
but while coming out the air-con caught on 1 of their banners and had to be untangled. No damage to Harvey thankfully.
At Stratford (yes on the Avon), we went to a play at the Shakespeare Festival. The bard himself was present.
We visited Harry McGee in London, Ontario and this is his back yard rose garden - so carefully and beautifully planned. Harry is a well-known Rosarian who has written many books on roses.
Roland, Bonita and Harry. We parked overnight in the yard of Roland and Carol Craig, surrounded by their wonderful rose garden.
An open air museum commemorating the “Underground Railway” that assisted negroes in the USA to escape to Canada and freedom. This farm was owned by John Walls and is maintained today by his descendant Dr Brian Walls. We bought a book written by John about his ancestor and the escapes from slavery that he assisted.
Probably the oldest train carriage we have ever seen, made almost entirely from wood.
A chapel here is named after Rosa Parks who refused to give up her bus seat and sparked a new surge against racial discrimination in the south of the USA.
A graphic reminder of how slaves escaped to Canada sometimes under a false floor under loads of manure or wood in the bottom of carriages like this.
Dr Brian Walls
"Ï will let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him" - a great saying
This was Canada Day- some people really do love their country!
No excuse!
Henry Ford Museum in Detroit. This is very similar to the car in which my grandfather taught me to drive in 1960. It was a 1937 Ford V8 3 speed manual with no syncro-mesh on any gears.
The rear step and hand grips that the bodyguards used to hang on while the car sped to the nearest hospital carrying President Kennedy.
For $4, you get a ride in a reconditioned Model T Ford off the early assembly lines. You also get a commentary on how to drive it including adjusting the spark timing each time a gear is changed! We drove in a 1924 model.
Here is a video of the Model Ts giving tourist rides.
and here is a video giving a demonstration of how to drive a Model T including the use of the 'spark' lever.
The actual seat in which Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
Reflections, Ontario Botanic Park
Niagara Falls - well, that's what most people call these falls but I have been informed that the correct name is 'The Horseshoe Falls'
“Maid of the Mist” and permanent rainbow.
No need for a bath tonight
“What’s all the fuss about? I’ve been flying over these falls all my life!”
Hammond Museum of Radio
Sheer joy to the radio enthusiast
Bata Shoe Museum, Toronto. These were used to break up chestnuts.
Raised shoes were the height of fashion for ladies in days gone by.
Near the CN Tower in Toronto
The CN Tower was the tallest structure in the world from 1975 til 2007.
Glass panels in the floor at the top, nothing but air underneath. Your mind says it is safe to walk on these but your emotions shout a different story.
Toyota Tacoma, similar to the Hilux in Australia, but only a small 'pick-up truck' by North American standards.
Bonita and tree
Outside a chips shop, the sign said “Freshly made fries”. This guy was convincing everyone of this.
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