Menominee Lake Here We Come

We've bitten the bullet and reserved an AirBnB in Canada on Menominee Lake about 7 hours north of Pittsburgh.  It's about 6 kilometers north of Baysville and 19 kilometers south of Huntsville in an area pockmarked with hundreds of little lakes.  It's about 140 miles north of Toronto and around 100 miles northeast of Collingwood which is on the Georgian Bay.  (That's where my grandmother was born.)

That's Toronto at the bottom of the map covered up by a bunch of stars and the Google logo.

Three fourths of the family is going to make it:  the two of us, Camila's family and Will's family.  Juan is using up his vacation and money on the Disney Cruise as we speak, which sounds pretty good to me at the moment.  We're going to Canada instead of the Outer Banks this year and the weather should be significantly different.  With all those little lakes and ponds I hope there aren't too many mosquitos but I've got two bottles of Off with DEET left over from our Punta Cana vacation last year.  I never used it once there so hopefully it will continue to be unused this summer.

We hope to get to Algonquin Provincial Park, the original destination of this trip.  The Friends of Algonquin Park video traces the geological formation, prehistory and history of the park.  Highway #60 runs for 56 kilometers through the lower half of the park and provides camping sites, interpretive walkways, a museum and visitor center.  For more information on the recreational offerings, watch the Ontario Parks video.  The rest of the park can only be accessed on foot or by canoe.  The west entrance to the park is about 42 minutes (48 kilometers) from our AirBnB but the Visitor's Center is near the eastern entrance about an hour and 15 minutes (94 km).  Google Maps gives Canadian distances in kilometers and although you can change that to miles in the Options, I figure we might as well get used to them.  It's easy to convert from kilometers to miles:  you just multiply by 6 and move the decimal point one place to the left.  So 100 kilometers would be 60 miles.

By the way, Isabel says she has dibs on the top bunk: