After we were straight from Sweden times one day at home, we drove to the married man from Ingeborgs friend Manuela on Friday, 26.Mai with Amadeo, to them to Bonstetten with Zurich.
On the next morning we had to be at the airport in Zurich at 7 o'clock and around 9 o’clock our flight to Prague took off. After two hours stay in Prague we flew for 8.5 hours to Montreal, where we arrived around 15.30 local time (21.30 Central European Summer Time). We were glad to be able to move us finally again somewhat. With the tariff we had to line up nearly one hour long, got the entry stamp and war`s. With the taxi we drove to a youth hostel to our accommodation Auberge globetrotter, in the center Montreals. There the taxifahrer the address had understood "wrongly" made we still another small city tour. In the evening we went still somewhat among the people. There we already approx. 24 hours on the legs were terminated we the evening timely. We had gotten accustomed without problems to the zeitverschiebung. However we had expected somewhat cooler temperature. But here the summer arrived with us and it is bruehtend hot. We had on Sunday tomorrow only once thin trousers for Let us Inge-borrow procure, there it not possibly were with the motorcycle trousers the city to be explored. Our clothes we had sent for weight reasons with the motorcycles and still stood until Monday at the airport. Most business opened also on Sunday. The city Montreal is an island on the pc. Lorenz stream on the 1.5 Mil. humans lives. Still another in each case live Mil. at the north and/or on the south bank. On the island, in the middle in the city lies the Mount Royal, which house mountain, of where out we could throw a wonderful view over the city. At the foot of the "mountain" each Sunday in the summer of thousands humans meet over to make music, picknicken and simply fun to have. A giant pageant into the night... On Monday tomorrow we made ourselves on the search for our motorcycles. After some telephone calls we knew so approximately where it to be should and Pierre of the Hostal led us to the cargo department at the airport Dorval, which is called now Trudeau. We found then also our motorcycles, only we had instead of the 80 CAN $, as was said us with the forwarding business in Austria, now 800 CAN $ = approx. pays 560 EUR storage fee. Since one no credit cards accepted and the Bankomat in the auxiliary building did not function, was take the money so friendly and drove us with its passenger car to the next bank. The customs formalities were fast settled and so could we then our motorcycles in receipt take and assemble. Fortunately we could in resound make, since it was hot in the free one 35 degrees. At 17 o'clock we were ready to be launched. Tobias made itself something concerns whether the sprit in the tanks, which had to be ziehmlich empty would reach up to the next gas station. Ingeborg made it. Tobias had to push the motorcycle the last km. Wonderful with this heat! At the gas station we met Walter from Switzerland, who has an electronics company in Montreal since the 60's. We drove back into the city centre to our accommodation and had already something concern whether we would also get along in the Verkehrsgewuehl of this bulk city. The road users are hir all much disciplined and in such a way arrived we welfare again at the Rue Mount Royal in the heart of the city. Our motorcycles excited something attention and we were constantly addressed. The people are very open and accomodating hir and although hir French one speaks, speaks each also English with us. Now we had to repack and for the next day make still some ready to be launched. We wanted very early loosely, in order to escape from the rush hour and the heat. It was already 23 o'clock and still 30 degrees warmly. From Pierre we got box maple syrup to the parting still another given. On the next morning we rose at 5 o'clock. We came well from the city out and drove on the HW 17 direction the west. After Montreal the border between the province Quebeck and Ontario is short. There we procured ourselves a road map, which one gets here free of charge. It had 35 degrees and the wind hardly brought cooling. At a gas station we were warned of thunderstorms and Tornadoes. Clouds drew up and it already thundered. In the evening we drove on a small camping site west of Petawawa. Here we made first also time acquaintance with the Black the Flies, for tiny Stechfliegen against those the Autan which we thereby had were ineffective. We fled into the tent and although we had only briefly opened the tent entrance came some beasts also into the tent, which we all settled. It looked as on a battleground. Also we were badly adjusted. Neither a thunderstorm still another Tornado came. On the next morning our tent of the trouble spirit was besieged and us remained only the escape. Cart-loads on the HW17 by swampland shank. To stand remain was possible only for few minutes. It was somewhat cloudily and no longer so hot, sometimes a few rain drop. These did not keep however only the mosquitoes, from the Black away Flies did not constitute that. We had totally swollen necks and arms. At a gas station we got something against the itching of the passes. Muskol is to keep the Viecher away, was however unfortunately sells off. We drove only tiny localities without business by deserted Gebiehte. Find a small camping site in Eco Bay at the Huron lake credit also to Muskol gotten. It was not so hot any longer and we was totally packed up. Further on the HW17 along the Lake Superior, the largest fresh water lake of the world, approx.. 82100 km2. It was cool in this area. Wild campieren was up to now impossible. There was only the HW. Besides sump or jungle. We saw also many moose at the roadside. Also those suffer from the Black Flies and visit open area. We are again and again surprised, as helpful and nice the Canadians are. Everywhere where we will remain standing we immediately asked whether we need assistance and to have to naturally tell from where we come and where we to drive. Before Thunder Bay we drove by the most violent thunderstorm of our life. The world seemed to go down. Into Thunder Bay we went then on a camping site, although it was still relatively in former times afternoon. The thunderstorm seemed to be not yet past. To regenen it fieng then also again on. In Thunder Bay we left the Lake Superior, not however the HW 17 direction the west on which we by the grandiose landscape of Canada drove. 25 km before Kenora we met at the Rushing River Provincial park matte and Jessie from Winnipeg with which we a damp merry evening at the campfire spent. This was also the first evening without the Black Flies. But a squirrel our peanut butter geklaut us. It created to up-get the closed plastic box. On the next day we drove 250 km further to Kenora, east of Winnipeg, where we washed our laundry and updated our homepage. We drove up to now 2300 km. Up to the next time...
