August 16-18, 2016~Good-bye Canada, Hello USA~Sault Ste Marie~Back to Canada?~Sightseeing~

Tuesday-August 16, 2016- This morning, not only are we leaving Wawa Campgrounds......we are leaving Canada! Our destination today will be Sault Ste Marie, Michigan. We should be there early afternoon!

                                                                                  Ready to go!    

                        Bye!!!!

                                                                

                                                                                                          Yep......Construction, right away!

                                                                

 It's suppose to be a scenic drive along Lake Superior. Today, the weather is in our favor!

                                                           

                                                           

Pulling off at a scenic Pull Off, just for pictures!!!!

                                                    

 Not that I don't have enough pictures!

                                                         I still want to see a MOOSE!

                                               Okay.......now we have stopped for lunch!

                                                                           

                                                       & we're not the only ones here!

                                                        

                                                                                        Some body's getting their exercise!

                                     

                                         Otis' last PEE in Canada, next stop Michigan, USA!!!

                           Here we go, not much farther over that hill is the Bridge to the USA!

                                                                 See......almost there!

                                                     Sault Ste Marie.....Canadian side!

                                                               

                                                                              There it is!!!!

                                                       

 

                                                                 Paying the TOLL!

                                        WELCOME TO THE UNITED STATES!!!!❤💗💕

                                                                 

Stopping for brochures!

Otis' first pee back in the states! "AAAAAH"!!!!

Sault Ste Marie, Michigan!

Our RV park is right down the street!!

                                                                   

                                                                       Here's our site!

                                                        Here's our view from our site!!!

                                                       From out the front window!!!!

We are within walking distance to the SOO Locks giving us the opportunity to watch the big freighters & barges as they go up & down the St. Mary's River !

                                                                                       

                                                      Otis is enjoying the view too!!!

                                                  Our first sunset in Sault Ste Marie

                                                       

                                               Night lights on the International Bridge

August 14-15, 2016~Wawa

Sunday August 14, 2016-This morning we are pulling out of Penn Lake Park, our destination is Wawa Campgrounds in Wawa-Ontario, Canada. Wawa is the Ojibwa Indian word for WILD GOOSE.

                                                 "Mom, Dad....come on, I'm ready to go!!!!"

                                                                  And we pull out!

                                               And NO surprise......CONSTRUCTION!

                                                         WHOA......that was close!

 We're not driving straight to Wawa, because in doing research....we found out the REAL Winnie the Pooh, before Disney was from White River-Ontario, Canada & we have to drive right through White River to get to Wawa! We have to stop & see Winnie the Pooh's birth home!!!!

Funny how we arrived just in time to make lunch!!!

This is NOT an amusement park, it's just a memorial to the REAL Winnie the Pooh who was actually a female black bear cub! This black bear cub was bought from a trapper by a young Canadian Officer, Harry Colebourn, in the Canadian Army. He named the cub Winnie & she became the regiment's mascot. Winnie accompanied them overseas to England, but when Captain Coleburn got orders to to go to the front lines in France, he left his Winnie in care of the London Zoo. While at the zoo, Winnie was visited by many including author A.A. Milne & his young son, Christopher Robin.It was Christopher who added POOH to Winnie's name! A.A. Milne was so inspired by his son's fascination for Winnie he started writing stories about Winnie the Pooh. In the early 1960's The Walt Disney Company obtained the copyrights to the stories &......the rest is history!!!! We had to wait our turn to take pictures, a whole bus load of Pooh Fans were ahead of us! the 3rd weekend in August White River holds a Winnie the Pooh Hometown Festival with a parade, fireworks, dance & more. I can't believe I'm going to miss out on all that fun!?!

 It was hard to pull myself away from all that Winnie the Pooh fun, actually Eyore was always my favorite & I kept looking for him! Won't be long & we'll be in Wawa.

                                                     That's Wawa off in the distance!

                                                        Here we are, Wawa Campgrounds!

                                                       We have a nice shady camp site!

This is a NICE campgrounds!  This is the Magpie River behind the campground. They had a dock for boaters!

After dinner, we rode through the town of Wawa just for a quick look around, because tomorrow we have a busy day planned!