After enduring 4 days of overcast, rainy and cold days, I awoke this morning to only a cold day...The skies were finally clear and the sun was shining bright!
The drive up the Minnesota coast was awesome...the fall colors were so brilliant.
It was about a 4 hour drive to Thunder Bay, Canada and the road we drove on followed along the coast of Lake Superior the whole way. At various times I was able to just park the car, cross the street and take these pics...
After a while we arrived at the Canadian Border and had to answer questions like "why did our rental car have Georgia plates?" (don't know), "where were we going in Canada", "did we have weapons like guns, knives or pepper spray?". Of course we didn't, so we were off to Thunder Bay.
Well, I wish I had lots of cool pics from Canada, but I really don't. It's weird, as soon as we crossed the border, the trees were almost bare of leaves and we couldn't see the lake anymore. We wanted to go see Thunder Bay's most famous attraction, Fort William historical park (a re-creation of a fur trading post from 1815) but it was closed for some unknown reason.
We drove around and really weren't very impressed...sorry Thunder Bay! It sort of reminded me of Decatur, Alabama in the sense that there wasn't really a cool downtown area and the businesses seemed, well, exactly what we'd see in Alabama.
We ended up at a place that was sort of a cross between Target and Sams Club...
That's right, "The Real Canadian Superstore"! Lots of deals in there, eh?
Finally as we were leaving Canada, I stopped to take a pic of this lonely old Canadian barn...
Tomorrow we will be driving west through Minnesota to Fargo, ND. Then from Fargo, we will head south to Watertown, SD...should be a long day of driving, but I bet I will take lots of pics!
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