Trying to get this done.  Lots of new pics to add, and a brand new design!

Whirlpool Lake, Riding Mountain National Park

I started to fully embrace a serendipitous approach to this trip yesterday morning.  I pulled out of the Fort Garry Hotel, turned onto the Trans-Canada and cranked the classic rock (more on that shortly).  About twenty-minutes later I realized that the sun was hitting the front right part of the windshield.  This seemed odd to me becau...

Fort Garry Hotel, Winnipeg 

Today was mostly overcast, so it was not a fantastic day for photos.  It was a good day for exploring though.  I dropped in at the tourist information centre and the Manitoba border and the woman there had some helpful ideas.  I ended up looping north to check out Grand Beach on Lake Winnipeg.  Because it was cool and overcast, the beach was not very bu...

 Kenora, Ontario

1,523 kilometres to go.  I'm more than halfway now!  For the geography fans out there, I passed a couple of significant milestones today:  (1) I'm now in the Central Time Zone , and (2) I'm now in the Arctic watershed.  Tomorrow I'll leave Ontario, the Canadian Shield, and the boreal forest behind and head out onto the prairie.

I decided to have...

It was a spectacular day to tour the north-east side of Lake Superior.  Apart from one dark rain cloud just west of Wawa, there was just enough cloud cover to make the skies look interesting.  I sent the drone up a few times and it was able to capture the awesomeness of the shoreline a lot better than I could at ground level!

I'm overnighting in Thunder Bay.  It was temp...