This morning we crossed from Michigan, Indiana into Michigan.
Then we took the bridge to Canada.
Then we crashed at Haley’s place in London and didn’t take any more pictures.
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Day 3 of the Cross Country Adventure
This morning was our first time in Wisconsin!
The land of plentiful Cheese Food!
We soon found our only scheduled actually-get-out-of-the-car-and-explore stop: The House On The Rock: a tourist trap known primarily for being a tourist trap in the middle of rural Wisconsin. Filled with weird and wonderful artefacts both authentic and fake.
It was closed.
Kerri was sad.
Then came our first time in Illonois!
And our first time in Indiana! (The driver is awake. He’s just blinking.)
We slept in Michigan, Indiana. Which was kind of confusing.
We only drove 851km today.
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Day 2 of the Cross Country Adventure
This morning Kerri found the cookie that Steve gave Kerri to give to Matt. Thanks Steve!
The cookies Matt’s parents gave us are much less powdery. Thanks Mom!.
The bottom part of Saskatchewan is surprisingly bumpy.
Near the border we even had to drive uphill!
First time in North Dakota for both of us!
Then we got to the geographical center of North America. After a day and a half of driving Matt was looking for any excuse to get out of the car. But he still couldn’t be bothered to get out of the car for this.
Next stop was the world’s largest buffalo.
Near the World’s Largest Buffalo there is a real albino buffalo. But apparently even albino buffalo are surprisingly good at hiding. The only white thing we could find in the field was this garbage.
We missed the DC powerline crossing. We may have driven right under it but failed to notice.
We drove through Fargo too, and didn’t notice.
Then it was our first time in Minnesota!
We also missed the world’s largest hand rolled ball of twine rolled by a single man. Kerri is extremely disappointed. She thinks Matt did it on purpose.(I did not, there just weren’t any signs that indicated where to go to see it). Does that sound like the kind of thing that wouldn’t have signs to you?
And that was the second 1014km!
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And We’re Off Again!
We loaded up the Versa with all of our worldly possessions and set off for Toronto.
We did take four big boxes containing our bikes, kitchen chairs and some miscellaneous stuff to Greyhound to ship to Toronto. We are not counting those among our earthly possessions because we don’t think we’ll ever see them again.
We went to the West end location that doesn’t even have bussing, only shipping. But the woman at the desk still seemed shocked when we said we wanted to ship something.
She told us the boxes were too big. We said we followed the directions on the website. She said the website is useless. We said we tried to call but no one answered. She said she doesn’t answer the phone.
Then she told us to move the boxes into the back and fill out a form. The form had 6 spaces to fill in:
- Number of boxes: 4
- Sender name: Kerri
- Departure City: Edmonton
- Receiver name: Kerri
- Destination City: Toronto
- Phone number: We can’t even remember which one we used. Hopefully one we actually have with us.
Then she gave us a copy of the form and said goodbye.
We said we wanted extra insurance. She scrawled something illegible on the top of the form. We asked about paying. She said she was too busy so we would have to do it on the other end.
We asked how much it would cost. She said she would let us know if we called on Monday.
And that was that.
So the rest of our stuff is crammed into an unsteady pile in the back of the Versa.
We left a bit late, so we didn’t get to gawk at any giant Ukrainian food. We drove straight through to Lloydminster.
This is the bottom of one of the monuments on the border. It is hard to get pictures of the full monuments without stopping.
It was Matt’s first time in Saskatchewan so he celebrated.
He was disappointed because it didn’t seem as flat as advertised.
But soon he was satisfied.
Saskatchewan has a lot of geese.
They don’t seem to know that they are supposed to fly in a V shape.
We passed a point of interest.
No, it wasn’t the bump. The bump was a coincidence. The point of interest is somewhere in the flatness. But the bump was more interesting so we took a picture of it instead.
And that was the first 995.9 kms of our thrilling cross country journey!
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Homeishness
We spent a month in Alberta saying Hello/Goodbye to everyone and packing up our stuff.
We had to say goodbye to our bed, Mount Comfy.
We also spent some time in Matt’s old bedroom, which has been redone with a Roman theme.
Kerri’s Mom’s dog did not remember her.
She is still really stupid and thinks she can lick chicken out of her toy.
She also apparently really likes cucumber.
We stopped in Lethbridge and played with Oma’s fun new toys.
And became stars of a colouring book for the kids.
