day 6

The cyclist i mentioned yesterday left about 45 minutes before me in the morning, but I soon caught up to him on the road.  As promised, I honked as I went by and he waved.  He quickly caught up to me, though, a few miles later as I was stopped at a bridge construction site which only allowed one lane of traffic and was controlled by a stop light.  I never saw him again after the light turned green.  He should be somewhere on the south shore of Lake Superior by now.

It was a relatively short ride and there was hardly any traffic.  The one place I stopped was the Agawa Pictographs.  These are right on the shore of Lake Superior and it was a short hike to get to them.  They are several hundred years old and are fading due to the waves and weathering.

I got into Sault Ste. Marie, ON in the early afternoon.  I visited the Bushplane Museum, which had a wide range of bush and fire fighting planes, including this one, which was used to drop water on forest fires.

I then met up with my college roommate Dan for dinner.  We hadn't seen each other for years, so we had a lot of catching up to do.  I ended up spending the night his and his wife Jen's place south of the Soo, just a few hundred feet from Lake Huron.  It was good to catch up after not seeing them for so long.