Maritimes - Day 5

The rain washed away this blog post.  I did not get to it in the evening, as this was the second long driving day in a row and I was exhausted.

We started the day by leaving Sault Ste. Marie, though we stopped at a grocery store for supplies on the way out of town and visited with an old man who was curious about why we were so far from home.  The drive was more of the same until we got close to Sudbury, where a thunderstorm started and the rain came down extremely heavy.  I could barely see the car in front of us.  Sandra had planned to stop at the giant nickel for lunch and a picture, so we limped our way there on roads full of water and very limited visibility.  We ate in the van and checked the weather radar to see that the thunderstorm was a line and was moving east, so when it stopped raining, we got our picture and then got back on the road.

However, it wasn't long out of Sudbury to the south before we hit another thunderstorm, and again I was unable to even make out the vehicle in front of us.  Luckily there was a picnic table area / rest stop near that we were able to pull into and wait out the storm.  Once it ended, it was a fairly easy drive into Midland, where we stopped for the night in a hotel that is much too large for the area and the number of people staying in it.

I basically collapsed in the hotel, as I was very tired.  Tomorrow we head to London for a visit to the 1st Hussars museum and then we end up in Hamilton.