Remarkably, our total driving time today was two hours; a record for us! The small city of Sault Ste. Marie (literally means St. Mary Falls), Ontario is just across St. Mary’s River from Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan and the Ontario side is where we spent the better part of May 21st. In high season a ship will take tourists through the locks, which matches our experience of France’s ecluse system but on a gigantic scale. It seems the tourist season here is just warming up with the weather so many of the sites and tours are presently closed. The lock tour was disappointingly no exception.
We walked the 5 km or so along the river to a Canadian Heritage Site where the old buildings still stand and were once part of a thriving shipping industry. The photos say it better than my words so I will let them do their work.
By 2:00 we had walked ourselves out and made our way back to Glenview RV and Campsite, settled in the laundry building with laptops in hand and caught up on several fronts. Surprisingly, we have had no cell phone reception or Internet access these past 3 days. I say surprising because I expected, in our technologically modern world, to have unlimited access but I have been told that northwestern Ontario is still quite remote and I now have reason to believe it.
We hope you are well and we think of each of you often and with fondness. Thank you for your presence with us.
Beautiful old houses!
So many wrap-around decks. You would love it and land is relatively inexpensive. We saw a sign for 9 acres of farm land for $97,000. Don’t you dare think of moving out here, though! 🙂