SUDBURY, ONTARIO
JULY 20, 2005

An uneventful day with only one slight mishap from the Soo to Sudbury. Hunkered down at the Mill Site campground, we were greeted on Wed. a.m. by the deputy mayor of Sudbury (pop. 155,000), Doug Craig, TV and print media, and a special guest Jacque LeClerc and his stunning wife, Jeanne. Jacque, then a 12 year old boy, had witnessed the first cascade of Airstreams entering Sudbury in 1955. Now, 62 y/o, an accomplished singer with a rich baritone voice, he recounted his memory of fifty years before, still fresh and exuberant.

On the 19th most of the group toured the "SCIENCE NORTH", a wonderful hands on salute to the world around us. Think Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry, only not on steroids. The simulated (four dimensional) ride on a bush plane was a highlight, and for the more adventurous, a virgin solo ride on the SEGWAY, the amazing two-wheel, gyroscopically balanced, battery powered personal transport device. The future is very close.

Lynn visited the creek behind the Provincial Taxation Center, which was then a park and served as the original campground site in 1955. Nearby, the Silver Bullet drive-in reminds us of that old Latin adage, " Ad astra per alia porci bauxia", or roughly translated, "To the stars on the wings of an aluminum pig". Yeah, yeah, so I made that up, but whose blog is this ?















A final note on camaraderie. Gene Cribbs of Lubbock, rewired and activated our mordant CB radio, then followed up by reattaching my busted hot water heater door. I could describe Gene as a dynamo, but that would be a Texas sized injustice. He is the kid you knew in grammar school, the red headed brat with attention-deficit-disorder (ADD). He has lived his entire life at a 45 degree angle, still races his dirt bikes, plays piano to the delight of anyone within earshot, and a few Ritalin tablets shy of the right dosage. One hour with Gene and I was left with two choices, (a) three liters of oxygen, or (b) a thirty minute nap.