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Canadians in Kingston - Day 1

The three amigo's

We stopped at the Terry Fox memorial statue for a shot of motivation in our quest...

We almost ran out of gas driving through the night from Wawa to Sault Saint Marie. There were some gas stations along this stretch, but nobody was open!! We had 10 litres of gas left in the tank and still 25km to the city, but found this one station open...WHEW!

A nice little pub close to CORK and our registration area. If you look closely you can see Doug Gilmour's hockey jersey hanging on the wall along with other notible Kingston hockey players.

Well just about two hours before we left for Kingston, the pirate himself, Steve Wells shows up and says "when are we leaving". So, with a little more arranging of gear in Paul's windsurf trailer to accomodate the pirates stuff, we were off on the road for the 22hr drive to Kingston. I took the first shift driving to Upsula, then Paul drove to Thunder Bay. Wellsy drove for a few hours after that, then we rotated in the same order with each of us driving 2-3 hrs at a time through the night and through the next day, until we arrived in Kingston. I probably only had 1hr of sleep the whole trip, so last night I was pretty tired. The Blue Moose would have been great for the sleeping part during the trip, but I'm afraid we'd probably still be on the road!!

Weather for today looks to be cool and light winds, but regardless of the forecast, we all all very eager to get on the water and "get 'er done"

Posted by Brad at August 24, 2006 7:12 AM

Comments

Good luck Amigos!We'll be cheering for you!!
Wind is blowing beautiful here this morning.
White caps on the Goon - but no gear

Posted by: Woodette :) at August 24, 2006 8:30 AM

Hey Woody,

I placed a comment earlier, but didn't show up.
Maybe too much bling-blings!

Go get'em!!!

Posted by: Woodette :) at August 24, 2006 9:11 AM

Good luck guys!! don't have to say have fun:)

Posted by: links at August 24, 2006 9:39 AM

Get out there and show'em what you're made of! We're cheering for you!

Posted by: Shan/Surfy at August 24, 2006 10:31 AM

Go for Gold! you are representing Sunset Country so let's show those old southern Ontario people where the real champs come from!! Good Luck and steady winds!!love Mom xoxox

Posted by: carol Orvis at August 26, 2006 3:08 PM

Hi woody thanks for sending me you web site I had a great time with you guys, please give my e-mail to Steve Wells.

Have fun till next time and great fall!

Ciao

E.T.
1-800-361-2773

Posted by: Édithe Trépanier at September 7, 2006 3:53 PM