The End

When you travel through Canada, you always stop at Tim Hortons. It is the best known and best supported coffee shop in the country and often can be found south of the border too. Every man, woman and child know this place as the place to find coffee, tim bits (the middle of the donuts) and a lunch sandwich or cookie. We are not immune to the draw of Tim Hortons, and Herman is especially prone to make immediate left/right turns when he spots one on the way. I, on the other hand, am only interested in their peanut butter cookies, but not at the expense of safety. These off the cuff manouvres of his, have caused many an argument, but at least I am easily quieted by the purchase of one of their famous PB cookies... This time, on the way home, we decided it was time to take a picture of one such stop, at least this one was not at the risk of life and limb...

We found out late last night that there were several tornado touch downs and that Vaughan was declared a state of emergency after the storms that passed through. We were in the Inn only short while before the storm went through there, so we were once again lucky not to have camped last night!

We rode home this morning with a wet start, and went through the Durham region where a rather large tornado touched down, and the roads were already cleared of debris by around 11am. We saw some of the damage, but mostly were impressed with the cleanup that seemed to have achived quite a bit in such a short time.

We are amazed at the things we missed on the trip; I missed rice the most (I am sure I was oriental in a previous life) and Herman craved a toasted peanut butter sandwich (the man has no taste, except for marrying me). I didn't have rice for dinner, but Herman had the sandwich...

We're home now, and working out ways to do the next trip. I was really glad to see Konstanz and can't wait to see Dominique tomorrow. Herman was equally excited about seeing Konstanz and seriously misses his little girl. The german shepard is happy that some of her lost flock have returned, but the schnautzer was sleeping when we arrived, and was only excited once she realized it was us. The cats - well, let's just say, they're glad their staff have returned.

Sometime over the next few days we will summarize our overall indivual experiences of the trip and what we would keep the same or change on the next one, as well as the general thoughts on the service and driving in the four states and four provinces we travelled in. Overall we did 4,121km. We rock and we know it.