Family and Friends- June 2012

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After getting rid of half of our possessions again, we put what is left into storage. We also are storing the truck/camper and have set out this year in our fully packed Jeep with roof-top carrier and hitch-mounted bike rack. We will stay in more vacation rentals, couch-surfing, hotels, and cabins, as well as camping in a tent (Ron says, “We’re getting too soft camping in the truck/camper.”) We finished the Midwest: Iowa, Chicago, Wisconsin, and much of Northern Michigan. This round we are doing the things that we missed in 2007 when we were last here. We are blessed with many friends and family along this route, and the pictures in this blog show those friendly faces instead of mostly scenery. We had a great time bicycling, canoeing, touristing, boating, walking, dune-buggy-riding, eating, hiking, visiting, partying, visiting & sharing your homes.

We have now entered Canada and will be here for the rest of the summer. We are driving from Sault Ste Marie through Ontario to Ottawa. Then we will go on to Montreal and Quebec City, before spending the rest of July & August following the Saint Lawrence to the Canadian Atlantic provinces (the time zone east of Eastern.) There are plenty of forests and nature up here, similar to the U.P. of Michigan or northern Wisconsin, and temperatures are cooler as well. We are already on board with kilometers, liters, and degrees Celsius – when in Rome… we decided to finally learn the metric system once and for all.

Thanks again to all of you for getting us up to Canada in fine fashion – eh?

Love, Pat & Ron