Wednesday, November 17, 2010

mass servesas cie vous pleie...




We made it!
Apparently camping season is over in Canada; pulled off highway 17 so many times to find a "for sale" sign or a locked gate... but for some reason after last nights stay we remained calm, decided we wouldn't pay more than $50 for a shitty hotel and settled here, in Blind River..... Canada.
Beer is really not cheap, $11.85 for a 6pk of PBR... fuckin' import.
We settled on "Canada" beer.... literally. it tastes like the crap my mom drinks. But the room is warm, there's a microwave, and a shower. life is good.

Real pictures

Our film pictures from the last few days. Weird how so few places sell/develop film anymore.





You Pee

We've crossed the UP and stopped for a bit in Sault Ste Marie, MI to develop film and prepare for Canadian Adventure. We found a free National Park Service campground last night in the dark and pitched our tent on wet, sandy leaves and cooked dinner on the stove under the picnic table. We had assumed there'd be water there, but found none and had only a few cups, which was not enough to cook with, drink, and save for coffee in the morning, so we had to make some tough decisions. I slept like a rock in my snowpants and two sleeping bags, but Kelly had a harder time, and we woke up around 9 and finally saw our campsite in the woods. We packed to the sound of hunting gunshots. Moving on, we drove along Lake Michigan in simultaneous sun and rain and took hobo showers in a grocery store bathroom and probably have been drinking too much coffee. We hope Canada has the internet and good, free campgrounds. And no snow. Yay! iphone photos:

The lake of Michigan!
Spongy seaweed.

Seaweed (lakeweed?) piles and driftwood.
Our campsite in the mornin.
Cooking in the dark and rain! Quinoa with pepper, sweet potato and apricot. We'll have to work on our manifold stew skills tomorrow.

Things that go BUMP in the night, and/or shit that woke Kelly up.

2:52am Erin messing with her sleeping bag zipper
3:10am it started raining
leaves rustling
4:02am Truck of hunters parked in camp spot next to us, thought about raping and killing us then thought against it. drove off. Erin thinks it was probably the park ranger.....
4:47am Erin farted loudly
leaves rustling
5:02am loud airplane
leaves rustling
6:00am morning came and went
9:30am we woke up

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

In Search of the Hodag

We set out north from Iola in search of a vicious beast. It may spit fire, it may have three sets of teeth. We aren't sure because we forgot what Google told us. It's said to be a Hoax, but we believe it may be real. We're traveling to the home of the Hodag, maybe it's only home, in Rhinelander WI
We found it:
We peed there, It was probably really scary at night because it had nice up-lights.... but in general, we were slightly unimpressed.

Rural Wisconsin actvities




Monday, November 15, 2010

Iola, Wisco. Is that snow?

We woke up at 5am today for no good reason. Then played with my 2yo niece, Ayah and took a nap at 9. We should probably adjust our sleeping schedule to make the most of daylight. We spent most of midday destination shopping Farm & Fleet and groceries! Meanwhile, Kelly unknowingly blew off her unemployment hearing. Great, just great. But now that we have metal cups and hunting gloves and extra socks, I think we can actually get this show on the road!

We drove up to Steven's Point for dinner with Hillary and went to an awesome dance show by a Chicago company, strangely enough. A short drive to Iola and we're staying in an adorable A-frame on a lake. Breakfast in a rowboat tomorrow! It's getting colder and there's been wary talk of snow. But we are ready to build igloos, so bring it on!

In other news, email us your home address before Wednesday if you want a postcard from the vast, faraway lands of Canadia!