Building from our success of the previous day’s travel we set out from Thunder Bay in the hopes of a repeat performance (worth noting that this had not happened on the trip yet). We set out late. Having lost an hour, this was not so surprising. In fact this was to be more of an omen. Nothing lined up for us, the kids didn’t cooperate and Catherine and I were off. Yet we pushed on amidst swarms of blackflies at stops of interest. The first stop of interest was the Terry Fox monument in Thunder Bay. This is a must stop on any cross Canada journey. Jules was riveted by his story and for the next 500kms asked regularly “Is this where the Fox man ran?”

We had some fun, but fought the day. Our three step long distance day plan did not work out; no one napped, no one slept on the final leg, and I would have kept driving into the night once they had fallen asleep but Catherine stopped us at Pancake Bay. Good call!