October 5, 2004

October 5, 2004

Kleinburg to Springwater Conservation Area, Orwell, Ontario

DAY 110

 

 

I woke up feeling a little less ill today, and my health improved slowly as the day wore on. As I type this late in the evening, I'm feeling almost okay.

First thing this morning we headed over to the McMichael Art Gallery. It's a gallery dedicated to Canadian art and artists. About half of their collection is The Group Of Seven works, and the other half is other Canadian artists. We went there to see The Group Of Seven art, but there was a lot of other interesting art to view as well. I particularly liked Emily Carr's work. We spent the morning exploring the first floor of the gallery, most of which was The Group Of Seven. By lunch time I was feeling a little run down, so we went back to the trailer in the parking lot for a long lunch and short nap. In the afternoon, we went upstairs to the second storey, and second half of the gallery. Before we left late in the afternoon, we walked around their lovely property.

< SIGH > For the fifth ( and final ! ) time this summer, I had to drive across Toronto during rush hour. Yesterday we entered Toronto from the east, drove across to the middle, then exited to the north. Today we had to enter from the north, drive to the middle, then exit to the west. After leaving the McMichael Gallery, we drove south on Islington into Vaughan until we found a TD Bank. After doing some banking, we drove over to Hwy. 400. We drove south on Hwy. 400 back into Toronto, then joined the 401 heading west. We crawled, bumper to bumper, stop and go, out of the city again < SIGH >. How can a city this big not have a ring road / perimeter highway ?

Just as the setting sun became troublesome for driving west, we got off the 401 at Cambridge to wait out the setting sun, and replenish groceries and supplies. We finished our shopping, and got back on the highway, about 2 minutes before the sun set below the horizon, making it possible to drive again. Good timing. Darkness arrived a little sooner than we were prepared for it, so we ended up hunting in the dark for this Conservation Area campground. Another full time RV lesson learned. It's not really feasible to be searching back roads in the dark for some location you're unfamiliar with. After finding this God forsaken place, then we had to hunt around in the dark for an empty camp site, then hunt around for the power box, etc.. What was really a barrel of laughs was hunting around for the electrical panel / circuit breaker box after we blew the circuit breaker at our camp site.

Maybe tomorrow will go a bit smoother.

DSK