Edit by Trudy and Dirk

The next days we have a little holiday during our trip through Canada.

We have to wait for our new support team Barry and Dennis. They will come August 31 to Thunder Bay.

Today, August 26, we visited the Kakabeka Falls, not far from Thunder Bay.

Kakabeka falls

In the evening Dave, Bob and Allen, hotrod boys from Thunder Bay, visited us at the campsite.

Dave’s hotrod

visitors

At August 27 a reporter of the local news paper, The Chronicle Journal, visited us for an interview about our world tour.

interview

The next day, August 28, we had several visitors at our campsite, who read the article in the newspaper this morning.

Most of them give us a spontaneous donation for SOS children’s villages.

journal article

Report 25 August 2013.
Edit by Trudy

We were invited to the Lakehead Antique Car Club for there barbeque. The have one time a year a barbeque and we are lucky that we are in Thunder Bay at that time.
A lot of members are here in the beautiful garden of Reg, Nan, Jim and Josy Vaillant.

the garden of the family Vaillant

There are a lot antique cars parked so we had a beautiful view.
Reg showed us his Model T 1924.

Reg and his Model T

This afternoon we can play some games. One is “throw the horse shoes”.
It was not an easy game, but we did it. It was fun, but we not became champions.

horse shoes

Everybody had made at home some food, so there were colourful different things to eat and a table full of desserts and coffee.

nice food

It was a barbeque with corn. They boiled a lot of corn in a special way and we eat it with
butter. Very tasty.

corn

We received a cap of the club and the president of the club gave us a cheque. Thank you!

cheque

Before we leave all together on the picture.

all together

Report August 23 and 24
Edit by Trudy

Dirk and the Model T drove more than 6000 kilometers the last 4 weeks, from Calgary to Thunder Bay, so they take a break for a couple of days.

having a break 1

having a break 2

Edit by Trudy

I slept very well last night (slept as an Canadian Bear) in the roof tent after my long trip from Edam to Thunder Bay.

It is nice to be back with Dirk. I make our breakfast and we start our first day together.

breakfast

Clarense Merko from the Lakehead Antique Car Club has invited us to their weekly car-show in the town. He gives Dirk a new plague to put on the box of the Model T.

box on the Model T

We also get a sticker from the Northern Ontario Classic Cruisers and from the Lakehead Antique Car Club.

Clarense and Dirk

window sticker

There are more than 100special cars; Oldtimers, HotRods, RedRods and replica’s.

cars

There is a lot of attention for the Model T and we tell them about our World tour and the fundraising for orphan children.

At the end of the show Trudy makes a little tour in the pink Thunderbird of Clarense Merko.

Trudy with pink Thunderbird

Edit by Dirk

Today Trudy will come back from Holland, after 4 weeks with her children and grand children.

Dirk cleans the roof tent and in the afternoon he went to the airport, were Trudy will arrive at 5.15 PM.

Dirk parks the Model T in the front of the exit of the airport, what is prohibited of course.

3 men of the security come to the Model T; not to say that parking is prohibited here, but to make pictures.

At 5.30 PM Trudy comes out of the airport and the meeting again is heart warming.

arrival Trudy

Via a city tour through Thunder Bay and doing some shopping, Dirk brings Trudy to the campsite to rest a little bit after a long, but very good trip from Holland to Canada.

In the evening we have an appointment with Dielof and Fred in the town to have diner together.

A good moment to say good bye and say thanks for being our support crew for the last 4 weeks.

Dielof and Fred have decided to continue there trip to Toronto the next days by the intercity bus.

saying good bye 1

saying good bye 2

Edit by Dirk.

No pictures today.

Today we have a long way (500 km) to drive from Kenora to Thunder Bay, on High Way 1.

At 8 PM. we arrive at a beautiful campsite in Thunder Bay.

Dielof and Fred don’t want to camp any more so Dirk brings them to a hotel in the town.

After diner in a nice restaurant, Dirk goes back to the campsite and Dielof and Fred go to……..????????

Edit by Dirk

Today we start with the route from Winnipeg to Thunder Bay.

About 800 km. to go the next two days.

The first 300 km. we take the old High Way 1, a beautiful route that brings us to the next part of Canada: Ontario.

High Way 1

Welcome to Ontario

After more than 270 km. we arrive in the evening in Kenora, were we decided to sleep in a hotel this night, so we can make an early start tomorrow.

Edit by Dirk Regter

Today we have an invitation to be at an old-timer festival in an old English Fort in Lockport, not far from our campsite.

It rains cats and dogs that day so there are not so many visitors.

raining cats and dogs

At the end of this event, we say good bye to our old timer friends of the classic car club from Winnipeg, Paul and Bryne.

Paul

Bryne McKay

Tomorrow we will continue our tour to Thunder Bay.

Edit by Dirk

Today we have an invitation of the Manitoba Classic and Antique Auto Club from Winnipeg to the Prairie Dog Railway, to make a tour with an locomotive of 125 years old, to the village of Grosse Isle.

sticker Manitoba car club

locomotive at the station

Today Dirk is not alone in his Model T, he has a new co-driver.

new co-driver

locomotive on the railway

club members

When we arrived in Grosse Isle, Dirk got a beautiful plaques of the club from the vice-president, Norbert Touchette.

Grosse Isle

plaques 1

Back at the campsite in the evening, Dirk mounted the plaques on his Model T.

plaques 2

Edit by Fred and Dielof.

Today we have a day off.

Dielof go to Winnipeg and Dirk stays at the campsite to do some maintenance at the Model T.

No pictures today.