From America's Hat to Canada's Underwear

Traveler's Log, Day 6:  How wonderful to have a GPS that doesn't stick to main roads!  Beautiful off-the-beaten-path drive across Ontario + hike.  Canadians are all aboot friendliness.  You know you are a significant distance from home when someone doesn't know where your home location: "Maine...is that where Boston is?"  Informally couch surfed in Parry Sound, Ontario, the second night.  Thanks so much, Mark!  Back to Canada's Underwear again @Sault St. Marie.   Boy, the Upper Peninsula Michigan is loooooong...another stay at Miss Honda at a roadside rest stop in the middle of the wilderness somewhere.  Woke up to raven calls...awesome.  Really special and extremely fun reunion with Mom, Joe's girlfriend Nicole, and her 3-year-old daughter Paityn in Bayfield and Madeline Island, WI.  Trip down memory lane along all the backroads of teenage years on the way home to Minong, WI, along with a stop at the Buckhorn Bar, where I worked as a cook when I was 17.  Great to be home!  Photos are online:  https://plus.google.com/photos/110803460228810715341/albums/5893445819397743057?authkey=CMqw18TBvrj2-AE

Alaska Ho!

Finally, my expedition to Alaska has begun!  Long have I yearned to follow in my Grandpa OK

Smith's tire treads and travel by road to The Last Frontier.  Here we go!

Traveller's Log: Rockland, Maine to Ottawa, Ontario.  Oh Canada....(meow meow meow meow meow meow - inside story!).  Accommodations (free!): very comfy passenger seat of Miss Civic (1999 Honda) in the parking lot of a vacant building.  Currently writing from a bilingual Tim Horton's in Renfrew.  I'd like a café, por favor.  Breaking news: Canadian kids are cute, too.