Peak 2 Peak Gondola

Rocking into Thunder Bay was another evening event – dark, and leaving us little opportunity to really suss out the town. Tips was also having a field day getting us to the hotel. Dave was having none of it, and turned her off to look at a map. Poor Tips is as delirious as us at all the driving it takes to get across this massive country! We can only assume Thunder Bay wasn’t properly mapped out for GPS, as at one point, Tips literally told us to drive onto some train tracks. We’ll let her off – it’s been a tough ride, and she has gotten us this far after-all, with only a couple of fairly minor detours.

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Heading into the long-haul to Thunder Bay from the Soo, we fired up the team to engage in some good ol’ fashioned conversation. Fancy that. I have to say – when one of us laughs, it’s like a virus… We all catch it, and it doesn’t go away. I am going to have to call these guys every day once the tour ends, because I sure will miss these outbursts/sessions. We laugh so hard my abs hurt!

The only downer in team dynamic on this trip is that everyone keeps stealing my lines and passing them off as their own. It’s like I have to patent everything before it comes out of my mouth. Dave is particularly talented at this skill, and innocently tries to blame it on the fact that he’s in the front driving and can’t hear me say it first. I guess I’m just a producer of content for people. I mean, who really wants to hear an Australian accent, anyhow? We know that On Star doesn’t…

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When we rocked up to our hotel, it was clear the Days Inn wanted to show off the fact that Dola & Co had decided to retire for the evening there, and consequently we scored prime parking. Perfectly timed too, as an entire stadium of people emptied out of a hockey game and got to come by and have a chat. Nice work.

Back to business – Toast and Cat headed off in a cab to hit up Future Shop, following a somewhat frightening incident which prevented us from uploading our video footage onto the laptop. The very kind employees there were extremely helpful, and the cab driver on the way home provided us with a definitive session of Soo-101, so we didn’t have to feel like we zipped through without some background on the town. We learned that we were only steps from the waterfront and the world famous shipping ‘locks’ – precisely where we wanted to be the next day for Dola’s portfolio building. Right…off to another 10pm dinner…and another town that stocks Kokanee. Sweeeeet. We needed one after this day.

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During lunch in Massey we received a welcome interruption… Introducing: Frank >>>, an elderly gentleman who rocked up to the diner on his bright yellow electric scooter. Spotting him as a true-local from a mile away, Mich and Cat encouraged Toast to approach the gentleman to see whether he would be willing to share some local history with us. Toast proceeded to stalk the lovely man around the restaurant and finally asked, “Please, sir, but may I interview you for our tour?”

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Arriving in Sudbury in the pitch dark didn’t allow us to really check out the town. After settling in for a late dinner at the Holiday Inn, we settled into our rooms and plugged into our laptops to catch up with emails we didn’t get to on the road.

Cat and Mich managed to have a lovely uninterrupted sleep, but when Toaster rocked up for breakfast, disturbingly looking more disheveled than usual, we learned Dave kept him up most of the night with a pretty serious session of snoring. Poor Toast.

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This morning it was up and at ‘er bright and early. We had a long drive to make today from Montreal to Sudbury. We did, however, manage to make it up to a super lookout point that offered a spectacular view of the entire city.

As we climbed into Gus to embark on the next leg of our journey, we realized that, following the thus-far failure to deviate from the reggae station on our satellite radio, that we must have finally converted Mich into a lover of this fabulous genre. Apparently not, but she has, thus far, been gracious enough to allow majority to rule… Bob Marley, keep on truckin’…

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Gondola arrives in Montreal

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Ottawa to Montreal

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