It was a long trip to Canada. We were supposed to leave Friday, July 8th but that didn’t work out. Then we were going to leave Friday am and drive straight through, that didn’t happen. The next plan was leave by noon, then by 1pm. We finally were on our way by 2pm. We weren’t sure where we would stop and were worried about hitting heavy traffic since we would hit highways around 3:30pm. We took 355 to 88. Traffic was heavy but didn’t come to a stop until the exit to 39N. We lost seven minutes there. I slept off and on for about 2 hours. In Loves Park we stopped for gas and lunch. I took over driving while Scott drove. The Wisconsin Dells traffic was pretty heavy but I never had to stop - Scott slept through most of it. We stopped for gas somewhere passed the Dells and Scott took over driving. I found a decently priced hotel, the St. Croix Inn in Solon Springs so we decided we would make it that far for the night. There was a Walmart in Rice Lake and we needed ice and a cooler so we stopped there and got a couple other things. They were out of ice so we ended up “stealing” ice from the hotel to keep the refrigerated stuff cool. The hotel was really cool except that every door we went out or came in there were people smoking. Our room was on second floor and had a balcony on the St. Croix Lake. It was dark so we couldn’t see much of it. In the morning when Scott was still sleeping I sat on the porch and read my book. The lake was all fogged over at first though so I couldn’t see much. We got on the road about 8:30am and went to Duluth Trading Company and then Gander Mountain. We stopped for breakfast/lunch at DQ just outside of Hermantown when I got bad news from work. I had to make some calls and then wait until International Falls to finish getting arrangements made. I drove while Scott slept but we switched drivers in Orr because I had fallen asleep twice. After my phone calls and topping off the tanks we headed to the border. There was only one other car in front of us. The guy asked about five questions and sent us through. We stopped at Safeway for eggs and bananas and headed to 502. We were listening to Ranger Apprentice and got distracted and decided we had missed Ojibway turn. We had been on 502 for sooooo long and we hadn’t seen the usual signs. It was like someone had taken all of the signs out. We were 20km from Dryden and sure that we had missed Ojibway when we finally saw a sign we hadn’t missed it!! A little further on 594 there was a bear running away from us. It wasn’t too far from Machin Dump so we were thinking he was heading there when we caught him. When we got to the cabin it was after 6pm and we were locked out. I had forgotten to bring the keys. Not even sure I would know where they are at this point anyway but I could have at least brought mom and dad’s set. Went to bed around 10:30 - slept in mom and dad’s room it was almost cold with the cross breeze but felt great. I saw lightening about five times and heard thunder and Scott never heard or saw a thing.
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