Crispies go to Cowtown -Day One
July 11, 2008
Canada Day (her 141st) July 1, 2008
Casey Clifford and Susie Hodges (their cowgirl names) set out for parts west. Susie rode shotgun and penned most of what you will read below and snapped most of what you will see below.
We saw lots of Canada today – 775 kms worth of Ontario, from Toronto to Batchawana Bay, 40 kms north of the Soo. The roadsides were jeweled: hawkweed, viper’s bugloss, lots o daisies, and some riots of wild lupine. The truckers and most drivers were somewhere drinking beers and doing fireworks, which made the road all ours – even out of TO. At Sudbury, Richard’s Lake – a little lake on a little dirt road, had a nice shoreline grassy knoll for lunch, bushes for a pee, some Marie Howe poetry, meatloaf sandwiches, (yes!) and enough wind to keep those bugs away. (Given the bugs this year, plus the numbing price of gas, no wonder everyone’s staying home.
lunch at Richard's Lake
lupinpalooza
Craze had so many good moves this day that it’s hard to keep track – but the tour de force was Salzburger Hof – our Hills Are Alive destination which C and Billy Clifford had discovered on her last trip west. It was Austro clean and fresh and Bavarian, and there was fresh local whitefish along with schnitzel. We walked to the beach – very still Lake Superior, with those shadowy islands on the horizon – picked the right rocks for Jamie’s Calgary apartment decor.
Der Hof!
Superior Rocks
