JB's Warehouse & Curio Emporium

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87: WHAT WE DID ON OUR HOLIDAYS 10: COMING HOME SOON DAY 12 Winnipeg/Kenora/Ignace/Thunder Bay DAY 13 Thunder Bay/Nipigon/White River/Wawa/Lake Superior Provincial Park/Sault St. Marie DAY 14 Sault St. Marie/Blind River/Sudbury/Parry Sound/Toronto The home stretch began with a huge breakfast at The Original Pancake House, where we stuffed oursleves with some of the best pancakes we'd ever had. Fast, cheap and delicious. Worth the waddle back to the car. The retro sign didn't hurt Continued on through the last stretches of prairie, before returning to a place to stand, a place to grow, Ontari-ari-ari-o. I figured it would take 3-4 days to get back to Toronto - our final overnight stops would be Thunder Bay, the Soo and Sudbury. The drive to Thunder Bay was uneventful, except for more changes in landscape than expected - even farmland reminiscent of southern Ontario for a brief time. Saw enough inukshuks... From Kenora to Waubaushene, these were a regular roadside site, usual...

86: WHAT WE DID ON OUR HOLIDAYS 9: ACROSS THE PRAIRIES DAYS 10-11 Calgary/Medicine Hat/Morse, SK/Regina/Qu'appelle Valley/Moose Jaw/Winnipeg Odd start to Day 10... The night before, I wandered around Calgary by myself, criss-crossing the city to see what was there. (Editor's note: this entry was not finished due to technical problems)

85: WHAT WE DID ON OUR HOLIDAYS 8: BLUE SMOKEY CANADIAN ROCKIES DAY 8-9 Calgary/Lake Louise/Moraine Lake/Banff/Calgary Calgary was the only place we spent more than a day in the entire trip. Kind of a chance to explore a smaller area in more detail, yet the pace remained rapid. Because we couldn't immediately check in, we searched for a bookstore Amy had visited a few times on trips from Lake Louise. Her memory was good - it was exactly where she said it was, along 16th SW. Followed this up with dinner at a Mongolian-style restaurant, then splurging at a CD store (Tramps, part of a regional chain). Day 9 started with the drive out to Lake Louise. Once we left Calgary, the landscape turned scenic in a hurry. It didn't take long to reach the gates of Banff. We drove along the Bow River Pkwy to Lake Louise, where we stopped at Laggan's, a deli where Amy worked several summers ago. We loaded up on baked goodies, which would last the rest of the trip. On the way to wher...

84: WHAT WE DID ON OUR HOLIDAYS 7: NOT MOVING TO MONTANA SOON (NOT GONNA BE A DENTAL FLOSS TYCOON) DAY 7 Moab/Green River/Salt Lake City/Pocatello, ID/Dillon, MT/Butte/a rest stop somewhere on I-15 DAY 8 a rest stop somewhere on I-15/Great Falls/Conrad/Shelby/Lethbridge, AB/Head-Smashed-In-Buffalo-Jump/Calgary Day 7 got off to a good start, wandering around Moab. Both of us dropped a load of cash, from a vase for our mother to decorative tiles for my place. North of town, rocks dominated the landscape. We didn't go to Arches National Park, but the landscape around it was fulfilling enough. Outside Moab Most of the day's drive was uneventful. Had another good meal in Green River (place called the Tamarisk, lunch buffet with homestyle staples like fish and meatloaf), then drove up US 191 and US 6 towards Salt Lake City. Wasn't prepared for just how far Salt Lake City and its related towns stretch out in a corridor along Salt Lake and I-15. We drove quickly through downt...