Toronto with Bust
July 8th, 2008On Friday I'm Toronto bound. It's about a 4 hour drive, and I have 9 hours or more to make it in (Kim is meeting me at 5pm).
These are my options:
- I can take my time in Rochester, Buffalo, and Niagra Falls. Maybe pick out some state parks or look for some industrial areas to visit.
- I can take a dip down through Ithaca and explore the finger lakes.
- I can go up through Watertown, NY and explore the islands at the mouth of Lake Ontario, the many parks in that area, and then drive along the Northern Coast of Lake Ontario to get to Toronto.
- I can sleep in really, really late, drive straight through, and get to Toronto just early enough to do a little shopping.
On Saturday I'm headed just outside of Webbwood, ON. From Toronto it's a 5 1/2 hour drive. These are my options:
- Head straight there, I've already wasted enough time and I miss my little girl.
- Take the Tobermory Ferry to Manitoulin Island and drive up through the Island to Webbwood. Straight through, this is about 7 hours, 2 of which are spent on the Ferry. However, Manitoulin is beautiful and I'm interested in seeing the Peninsula as well as the Bruce Peninsula National Park. So that 7 hour trip will become more like 9 hours and include 2 hours of photo taking. Of course, unless I get lucky and end up with some stormy weather (slightly possible, but not likely) I'll want to be there early morning or late evening for the best photos. This just isn't possible considering that it's 4 hours from Toronto (I'd have to leave at 2 or 3 in the morning). So, seeing it all will be nice, but the chancees of getting really good photographs is not all that high. But I get to spend the time on the Ferry with Kim and I get to go some place I've never been.
