Drive, Drive, Cache, Drive, Eat, Drive, Drive, Drive

Yeah that about covers the second day. In planning it I knew it was stupid but wanted to get really far north, but the reality of it is that it was just way too much driving. Sure we stopped here and there but all figgin day was just getting to the next place. The place we never actual got to. Which was good but we will get back to that later. Early morning music Albert King and then Frank Black

The early morning part of our trip was to go to Tim Horton's and get coffee. Tim's is the Dunkin Donuts of th north and we appreciated everyone we saw way up there. we thought that we were going to get some sight seeing done in the area but it was too early for the good stuff around the lake.

Apparently Saint Jean was here but now he's gone but left his name to carry on. There actually was a lot to see including a big waterfall and old historic town, a zoo and there was a bike trail all the way around this freakishly large lake. Cheri and I were out so early that we were way past this area by the time anything was open. We stopped in at the historical society to check out the lake, saw old Saint Jean and took some pictures and then it was on the road for a very long day of driving. We are passing this old local guy on the way back to the car and Cheri says to me, "Who ever said it was summer up here." and the Guy says "It's always this way." It is 53 degrees under gray skys and breezy.

Turning northwest at route 167 north we drove and drove for hours, closing all the while on Chibougamau. Picking up the musical pace we have Aerosmith in the player. The road to Chibougamau is 140 miles one lane in each direction with passing lanes up the hills. After 70 miles we reach the first of our two caches on this part of the trip. We stopped twice it gave us a break from the road and allowed the Puss and boots travel bug to have some fun seeing other caches. Learn more at geocaching.com. The names of the caches we did, and you can look them up and see maps at the site were:

CHIBOUGAMAU-1- BAIE-QUEYLUS-N-8 and CHIBOUGAMAU -2- UNE TOUR -N-9.

Ask Cheri about her attraction to porn.

Finally at about 1pm we went through Chibougamau and continued north for another half hour before deciding this was as far north as we could get before heading back to rooute 113 west just south of the town and driving another freaking four hours to Senneterre Quebec.

Our furthest point traveled north by car is now.

Buffalo Tom and Red Hot Chili Peppers

The road was awful and the bangs to the car were at times frightening. This section of road is not worth seeing, just trees running as far as you can see. Not that you could look up from navigating the patchwork pavement. Even Unhappyt couldn't stay awake to complain about the boredom of this drive crashing most of the day but for a couple periods here mumbled about the Cree Indians. 9.5 hours of driving in 8.5 hours we made it across and were looking for Camping LeHuard in Senneterre. We did not see it and seemed to go past the street number so we stopped into another campground. Instead of getting direction we panamimed to the woman to get a site there. It turned out to be just the most beautiful sight.

First we had a panic setting up as rain was a coming as we put up the tent, but it ended up just being a passing shower. We made some dinner and chilled out before crashing out. Great place with nice stars at night.