Chapter 3 - The 'Gonk in the "Soo"

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"Is there a place in town that has wifi?"

After leaving Spanish (and the beer cooler) behind, we fiinally began our trek to a new place, somwhere neither of us had ever been. The drive from Spanish to the "Soo" wasn't all that interesting, especially after having driven north of there now - it just doesn't compare. The whole Soo experience was kind of like a whirlwind. In order to have gotten a big picture of what it's like I should have stayed another day there. We spent the morning/afternoon getting there, found our sketchy ghetto hostel - the Gonk (Algonquin) Hotel. Full of some very colourful people, though at first we were worried about our safety (i got up throughout the night to look out the window at BERK to see that she was still intact) it turned out they were all very helpful and interested in what we were doing. There seems to be a line that we crossed somewhere north of Sudbury where the people just change. I can't put my finger on it yet, but I will come back to this. So anyways we found a cool little coffee shop called the Steamy Bean and we hung out there for a while - walked around the Soo waterfrount for a while and called it a night. Early the next morning Graeme hopped onto the Greyhound bus and that part of the trip came to an end. I'm really glad Graeme came with me that far - it was great company and even better conversation. I am going to have to ask wikipedia when I need answers now.

I will be entering a much new chapter from here on, going solo. Next stop will be winter camping or some kind of adventure I am sure!