Moving to Vancouver Day 2

Gas: $60

Motel: $56

I made good progress today, drove 762km in about 10 hours. The weather is cooler and Lethe is quickly adapting to life on the road or in her case, life in the car. Here’s her sleeping comfortably behind my head rest on the old carpet from my frosh year that I decided to keep. After 12 years, there’s just too much emotional attachment to it (The first major purchase I ever bartered for). I guess my cat agrees, since it’s her favorite piece to sleep on as well as her favorite scratching pad.

2 hours, is how long Lethe Meowed before she shut up. This morning, she’s a little bit better once I let her out of the cage and roam freely in the car when we are away from civilization. By the end of the day, she only does that when the road is too bumpy, or if the car went from motionless to moving. I guess it made her remember that she dislike a moving car.

There really isn’t much to see once you get past Ottawa. I can only imagine all the bored college kids and the regrets that they might have when they reach this stretch of Canada. Trees and farms, just tress and farms… oh yeah and it’s white people all around, as far as the eyes can see. I wonder if I am a rare sight in this part of the country. In any case, tonight, I have a room to myself, hot bath and AC. Lethe will have a good night’s sleep and I will have a good night’s sleep. You really appreciate the smaller things in life when you are on the road.

Tomorrow is supposed to be the most scenic stretch of this trip as I circle around the great lakes. I’ll try to take pictures, but I still haven’t gotten the hang of driving manual with one hand while taking pictures.