Dryden

September 22nd, 2007 :

In our original planning, we thought we might be able to squeak out of Ontario by the end of day two of our incredible journey, however, we decided that was not to be and we compromised with a second leg from Sault-Ste-Marie to Dryden.

The drive was over ten hours and we had started on quite a dark blustery morning, used a ninja method to put the cats back in the car and just drove. The first hour again was a pain as the two cats went back into panic and crying mode, soon to be replaced with a quiet resolution of annoyed compliance.

The snacks helped, we stuffed granola bars into ourselves and fed the boys Pounce snacks, a handful thrown into the back of the car and a mad scramble. They would then settle again for a few hours.

We noticed, quite thankfully, that they would not use the litter tray while we were mobile.

Dryden was grubby, yet the motel was large and quite adequate and we released the boys into the room and went for a beer, food was passable but it felt like a truck stop, back to the room for a litre and a half of red wine and some welcome sleep after booking the Regina hotel on the internet.