Passion for Travelling...

                  On the second day morning, we set out to visit the Sault St.Marie Canal National Historic Site . This Canal is now used mainly for recreational boating purpose, the highlight of which is that visitors can get the experience of going through the ‘Lock System’ in the canal. This lock called Soo Lock was built in 1998 and is built inside the bigger historic lock which once existed here. Other side of this canal is the US state of Michigan. The International Bridge connecting US and Canada is another attraction here, which was closed for public traffic due to the Covid pandemic. Sault St. Marie International Bridge     The Soo Locks An American tourist boat passing through the Soo Lock          There are a handful of beautiful heritage buildings made of sandstone in this historic site. Also located here is the Sault Canal Emergency Swing Dam , which an information board there said, to be the ...

                 With the long weekend coming up in August, we wanted to do a road trip to any other province outside Ontario. But the ever-changing travel restrictions made us a bit skeptical about that, which forced us to plan within Ontario itself. Our plan was to book a RV or a van since we were 9 people, but we were too late to go for booking and most of the better and less-expensive RVs had already gone booked weeks, if not months before, by then. At last, we had to rent two SUVs for the trip, for which we had to sacrifice the fun of everyone being together throughout the trip. Finally, on that Friday midnight we began our ride from Mississauga in a Jeep Grand Cherokee and a Hyundai Tucson, to our destination - The Algoma District .         Algoma is a district in the Northeastern part of Ontario along the banks of Lake Huron and parts of Lake Superior. It’s around 700kms away from Mississauga, and is famous for its ...