We wake up at this "lookout spot" and I was convinced that this will be our first glimpse of Lake Superior. Turns out, its just a bunch of tree's. Amanda is still beat (she loves her sleep) and I feel refreshed, even though I just had a cat nap. So we are on our way again. We definitely need gas, so we stop off at a place somehwere around Marathon, ON. Once there, its one of those pumps that you have to "lift" the metal thing for the gas stream to happen. No brainer. So I do this, press the kind I want and start pumping, but the numbers on the screen just say "$0.00". Confused, I go inside and ask if i'm doing it right and the women says "It's $50.50" and i'm like, No....I haven't put any gas in yet, it still says "$0.00" so she comes out, and tries to reset it all. I start pumping again, same thing, no numbers are moving, but when I pull the nozzle out, there's gas coming out, so I assume its working. I go inside and she's trying to tell Amanda its "$50.50" still. WTF ? Lady, it's not $50.50 because we only had half a tank, and everytime we fill up on half a tank it's no more than $20. So we argue back and forth a bit and she says "ok, just give me $20" We just want to get out of there, so we pay and then take off. We realize about 25km's later that no gas went in. Mother F****er.
So we see a Petro Canada ahead and we stop in there, restock our caffeine, snacks, etc. I was very tired and dressed hap hazardly (socks with flip flops) when this guy asks me if we're travelling, wehere from etc... we find out that their both from Burlington, ON and are on their way to Calgary for work, so we decide to travel "caravan" style. This makes the trip much more exciting and we feel relieved (especially if we run into anymore dirt roads). Both thier names are Justin and have done this drive many times. They show us this place called "Kakabeka Falls'' and its beautiful!
We decide to stop in Ignace, ON for lunch, at some diner, where I filled up my oil (that's for you dad) and we talk about how far we want to drive. We decide to try for Regina, SK, knowing that that is a pretty hefty goal, but we'll aim for it anyway.
We continue driving, and --finally-- make it to Manitoba, you don't realize just how LONG it takes to get out of Ontario, a Full straight day of driving....
Around 4pm we start thinking we won't be able to make it to Regina, we are all very fatigued and decide to split on a hotel together ( obviously Amanda and I to a bed and the guys have their own) but they are legit. So we stop in Brandon, Manitoba (around 8pm) at a Days Inn. We all take turns to shower, then I'm passed out by 9:30 (we had already gone through a time change in Northern Ontario.
We wake up at 5am- felling somewhat refreshed, at least we got to sleep horizontal, and we head out on the road again. Today we know is going to be a long one, all praries. But there's no reason to stop overnight again until we get to Calgary. The guys ask us if we want to save more money and we are welcome to stay at thier place, if we could just help them move their stuff in, no problem at all! On the drive through Saskatchewan, the wind starts to pick up, so I check the weather on my iphone and sure enough, there's a severe wind warning for area's of Alberta and Skatch. Some area's are up to 100km/hr, so this made driving difficult and really took a toll on what would have been, good gas mileage (on flat prarie roads). At one point, it was completely overcast except this tiny little window of light South West, and if we looked closely, that was the first glimpse of the rockies, pretty neat!
So we arrive in Calgary, its FREEZING and super windy. We had some troubles finding the place and at this point everyone's in a pretty irratible mood and we just want to get inside. So we finally find it, all of us in tandem with the tought of beer and pizza. I can hardly keep my eyes open at this point. The beer and pizza arrive, I manage to eat 3 peices and drink 1.5 beers and that was enough for me to fall into a deep sleep, only to awaken at 6am, and can't fall back asleep because of the windstorm. Amanda wants to sleep in that day so I decide to do a timmie's run, eat breakfast there, fill up my gas tank and by the time I got back she was pretty good to go.
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