Well, we were up and at 'em early on Thursday to head up to Parry Sound to meet our next volunteer to carry the canoe, Paul Fredette. Before departing the area, we stopped in for a nice breakfast in a restaurant called Lobbie's in Craighurst. Dave and Louise took off, heading back down south towards the Niagara area and their home. Frank and I headed north on highway 400 to rendezvous with Paul in Parry Sound at the airport there.
We arrived in Parry Sound in time for lunch at the airport, and had a nice tour of the Found Aircraft building where they build these planes. Paul owns a Bushhawk, one of the models of Found Aircraft.
After lunch with Paul and his two daughters, Isabel and Alexie, we headed up north to highway 124, which connects highway 400 to highway 11, which was going to get us into North Bay for the night at our next campground. Very nice road and some excellent scenery along the way. Pulled into the campground a little before supper and started unpacking. Watching us from no more than 50 feet was a deer. She was just standing there munching on twigs or something like that, just checking us out. Seemed to be saying “Hey, you guys have anything better to eat over there than twigs?!”
Paul headed back to Sudbury and Frank and I set up our tent. Feeling a might peckish, we headed out onto Lakeshore Drive in North Bay to seek out a pizza place. Yeah, I know, we're really roughing it! Found a nice local pizza/restaurant called Greco's (not the East Coast chain) that had a very good pizza. Made a campfire and relaxed a bit before heading to bed for some shut-eye. Temperature dropped a little, so it was a cool night, but not cold.
North Bay to Sudbury...
Frank and I were up early again at 6am. We packed up camp and hit the road. On the way, we had a telephone interview with Rich and Garry on Sudbury's 105.3 EZ Rock radio station. Nice chat, which they aired about 20 minutes after the call. Thanks gentlemen!
We also had another radio interview with Markus Schwabe of CBC's Morning North program to get to by 11am in Sudbury. We arrived early and Markus got us in the studio quick to get this recored. Neat to be in a studio with all the mics and equipment. The interview was mostly about ALS and its affect on families and will air on Monday, July 18th at 7:15am.
Friday afternoon we had a Youth Group Activity Fair to get ready for at Ramakko's Adventure Outfitters on Regent Street, which started at 4. Good turnout and met lots of people there. Many donations collected as well, so the canoe is filling up nicely with signatures!
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