Pictures, Driving, Gas Prices, Cyclists

Here are some pictures of James and Kathie axe throwing at Fort William.

I think I will start running again.

Here is a barn that was at the side of the road today.

Once again I watched a trucker run someone towing a travel trailer into the shoulder at the end of a passing lane, (sorry Marc) and of course a couple of kilometres later I saw a hapless tourist from Manitoba pulled over by OPP. Today we watched as a tanker truck passed a little car on a double yellow line. The car was doing a little over 90K which is the speed limit.

So is the 90 k speed at "limit" or a guideline? The signs at the side of the road state that if you get caught doing 110 k you will get a $95 fine and 3 demerit points. Does that mean I can go 109 k and not get pulled over? The roads are better here than they were for a lot of the prairies where the speed limit was higher.

My strategy for driving now has been to pick up the pace (about 98K/hr) and pullover into the straight through lane sooner. By driving faster not as many trucks catch me.

I cannot believe the price of gas in the smaller towns along the TransCanada in Ontario. We have paid 10 - 12 cents or more a litre in the smaller towns (up to $1.35 - in cities it is $1.19). Price gouging at it's worst. Except for the remote communities of Dease Lake (northern BC) and Johnson Crossing (Yukon) these are the highest prices we have paid for fuel this trip.

While driving through the prairies we did not see any cyclists on the highway and very few in the towns and cities we went through. As soon as we crossed the Ontario boarder we started to see cyclists again.