Oh Deer! The Long Road to the West

It's OK! She was hurt but she limped away pretty quickly so she should be fine in a few days.

Luckily I was able to spot her coming and slow down in time, but man deer have no idea how to dodge cars. She stopped right in front of me and started to run in the direction I was going! I had managed to slow down to under 10 km/h but I tapped her and she went down. I was so scared that I had killed her but she got up and ran off pretty quickly.

I'm glad the Moose are more sensible. We saw a few more over the past few days and they have been quietly eating on the side of the road where it's nice and safe!

Northern Ontario is so different from the rest that it almost feels like being out in the mountains out east! There are so many little lakes and there are many places where you go up and down the Canadian Shield or where they have cut right through it because the grade would be too much to build a road over it.
The area around Thunder Bay looks particularly amazing, but we are going to save it for the trip back as we will be coming back along this route to get home.

The drives are long as not only the distance is great but there is also a lot of up and down too. This is killing our fuel economy and we have had to fill up a lot.

As we descended down towards Manitoba the mountains stop fairly abruptly and we are treated to a long flat run of forests as we enter Manitoba directly into a provincial park. As soon as we leave the park though it's a sudden change. The fields here are massive and go off so far into the distance it's amazing. The old saying that you can see your dog running away for 3 days out here is no joke!
I know now that Essex county is much more hilly than it may seem!

Just before entering Winnipeg we passed a sign saying we were at the longitudinal center of Canada. We have gone about 9000 KM at this point and we are at about the middle of the time we had guessed it would take us. Still a lot to go though before we can get to the Rockies so we have a few more long drives ahead of us with nothing but endless fields of grain for the next few days.