Blog 8
Last week, I started to write about the trip my future husband and I
took from Mississauga to Vancouver. We wanted to see as much of the
country as possible and took our time to reach our destination. Ingo
wanted to show me “his” country and hoped I would love it enough
to stay in Canada with him.
During the first two days of traveling we make it to Nipigon where we
spent the night. The next morning, there was not a single cloud in
the sky. First, we visited Thunder Bay. Immediately at the entrance
of the town, we spotted the Terry Fox Memorial, from which we had a
phenomenal view over the bay and the city. This was the first time, I
heard about the courageous young man who tried to cross Canada on
foot at the age of 18 years to collect money for cancer research.
This alone would be more than remarkable, but it was even more
sensational because he had already lost one leg due to cancer. He
made it almost to Thunder Bay, all the way from Newfoundland in the
East of Canada, when the cancer forced him to give up.
We continued to the Kakabeka Falls in the Kakabeka Falls Provincial
Park. However, the
thunder of the rushing water was rather timid due to the low water
level.
At the nearby Beaver Post Shop we saw amazing craftworks from
aboriginals, like mittens made out of moose leather and the prices
reflected this high quality craftsmanship. Too expensive for a couple
who gave up their well-paying jobs for a new beginning. Instead, Ingo
bought me a small amethyst as a souvenir.
The landscape started to change on our way to Ignace: there were vast
areas of deforestation as well as many dead trees. It was very sad to
see even though we also saw areas where saplings promised a return of
forests.
Due to the change of time zones, we had an hour and decided to
continue to Winnipeg. While looking for “Golden Rock”, a ghost
town from the mining boom we got lost and ended up on a feeder road
of a highway which would have been declared merely a farm road in
Germany. It took us about half an hour on this gravel road before we
reached a paved road. This little detour also made us miss the sight
of Dryden's statue of Max the Moose.
Closer to Kenora, along the Lake of the Woods, the scenery was
breathtaking again. I wish we had had time to go for a walk but we
wanted to reach Winnipeg before darkness.
Once we crossed the border to Manitoba, the landscape changed. First,
there were still some deciduous trees along the road but all at once
even these disappeared from the scenery. The highway is straight as a
die, framed on both sides by fields. It was very tempting not to race
along as if we were on the German Autobahn.
To be continued...
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