Grab your bags and hop in. Sweet Pea is making room for all of you.
Anyone for a 'double double' from Tim Horton's? No road trip is complete without a stop at Timmy's.
I have some Canadian road trip music downloaded. Open the windows we are going to sing!
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Let's hear you now! Don't be shy!
We head west on the Trans Canada Highway and then turn north, away from the traffic and the big cities toward Muskoka. Bracebridge is a town in the Muskoka region. The name comes from a First Nations chief of the 1850's. Apparently the area was the hunting grounds of a band led by Chief Yellowhead or Mesqua Ukie. As you can see, this is not farm land!
Finally we are here! There is still some snow on the ground but it is a lovely day for a walk around the town of Bracebridge. Muskoka was named one of National Geographic Traveler's 20 "Must See" destinations.
Can you see the deer on the lawn across the street from my sister's house? He greeted us when we arrived. Then four of them pranced down the lawn and across the street.
This is the view from down the street.
Heading downtown... In a couple of months you wont be able to move on the main street. There will be so many summer people.
At the bottom of the street we can stop off and take a look at the power plant. My sister took this little video clip for Pallottine.
Last spot on the tour is to Huckleberry Rock Lookout Trail. Best to wear your hiking boots. You will be standing on the oldest surface rocks on the planet. They are well over a billion years old. A sign carved into the rock tells us that "(a)s part of the Precambrian Shield these rocks have been encased in glaciers, buried under mountains, submerged beneath oceans, and scraped and eroded clean again."
It is a incredible feeling to stand atop these rocks. Mike managed to get to the top last summer.
Anyone want to head back into town? I know where we can get some yummy homemade carrot cake. We can kick back and leave the rest of the world behind for a little while.