Day 2 - The Extra at the End

Munising, MI to Pembroke, Ontario, Canada

535 miles

We passed into Canada early in the morning of Day 2 at Sault Ste Marie, along with a whole bunch of bicyclists and a bag pipe band.

Apparently, there was an annual friendship ride/walk across the bridge going on, though we missed the reported massive amounts of people walking over the bridge. We did see the volunteers standing along the bridge railing waiting for the walkers to show up.

Side note: if you've read enough of these posts, you know how much Anne squirms at the thought of riding over a bridge, never mind the thought of walking over one, or having to stop on a bridge and wait for the walkers to get done.

We stopped before we went through custom to fill up the gas tank...at $2.72 per gallon. The next 10 days we'd be doing math in our heads to convert US Dollars to Canadian Dollars and gallons into liters (not to mention miles per hour into kilometers per hour).

As we've noted before, getting into Canada is usually pretty easy.

One of the rules we have on these trips is that we don't eat at restaurants we have at home, and usually we manage to find all kinds of new and different places to eat. In Canada though, there is always one place we stop as soon as we cross the border...Tim Horton's.

Sean loves Tim Horton's. The fast food place has a long Canadian history involving a legendary hockey player (named...Tim Horton), a vast selection of donuts and some very, very good coffee.

The road took us to Pembroke, Ontario, outside of Ottawa where we stopped for the night. Another long day. We were starting to discover that going 60 miles (or 100 kilometers) an hour on what is equivalent to our interstates, is very, very grueling.