Within a days ride east from Winnipeg, the landscape changed dramatically. It became more hilly, the large grain fields made way for endless forest, marshes, countless lakes and rocky outcroppings.
At the end of our first day riding, we were invited to camp in Brenda and Darrell`s back yard. They also loaded us up with tons of fresh veggies from their garden. Wowowow, what a treat! THANKS YOU TWO! CONGRATS AGAIN ON YOUR WEDDING!!!
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Shortly before the Ontario border we met a couple who was also traveling and they introduced us to their mascot, Quigs. We had the honour of getting our photo take with this most adventurous teddy bear. So cute! The couple told us they have great fun taking pics of the bear in the most unusual places, doing all kinds of mischievous things. The woman told me that she lost a friend over this new hobby because her friend thought she had gone insane. hahaha! Well, we liked little Quigs and look forward to hearing about his next adventures.
I just could not help snapping a shot of this. As I previously mentioned, the roads in Manitoba SUCKED!!! (excuse the harsh language but there is not better way of making my point) and the COSTRUCTION ENDS sign right at the border into Ontario is just too funny. (Unfortunately, most of Ontario`s roads are terrible too, but I did not know that when taking this pic)
View of Lake of the Woods in Kenora
Typical Ontario scenery, woods and marshland
Miss Haybale is not yet willing do admit that summer is over :-)
Sheltering from the rain in a rotten barn that is about to cave in over our heads.
One evening we kept getting sprinkled on by rain off and on so we decided to just pull off the highway a bit earlier that planned and set up our tent somewhere along one of the forestry roads that lead into the woods along the highway. A few hundred meters into the forest, we noticed some buildings through the trees. They were vacation cabins. Great!!! We went and knocked on the biggest one in the hope that the owners would let us shelter from the rain on their porch but nobody was home. We tried all the other buildings but same deal. As another bunch of dark clouds approached we just said the heck with it an invited ourselves to camp on the porch of one of the cabins. We were so grateful because it just dumped buckets that night while we and the bikes were nice and dry!
Next morning we made use of the coolest outhouse we have ever seen. It was decorated on the outside and inside with quirky stickers, pictures and words. The inside had several funny looking fish stuck all over the walls along with toilet related words :-)
THANKS TO THE OWNER OF THIS CABIN FOR UNKNOWINGLY LETTING US USE YOUR PORCH AND OUTHOUSE!
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