Monday, 4th Day on the Road, In Canada!!
Our fourth day started slowly. We were hard to get out of bed!! Some may consider this trip a vacation, but it’s far from it. Driving around 12 hours a day is harder than we expected. Now I fully understand the regulations for transport van drivers to stop every 8 hours. Of course, we don’t have a bedroom in our train, so we try to push ourselves a little more and stop for a good night sleep in good places.
Today, we covered less mileage than the previous two days, but we still had a lot to go through and were on the road for a long time. We left Madison, WI at 10am and headed toward Chicago! The drive to Chicago was great, but the drive in Chicago was looooooong! We hit lunch time traffic I guess. And we made a mistake that made us loose at least 1 hour. Sucks but after having driven over 2,000 miles, it’s not surprising.
So we pushed it and decided to stop very quickly for lunch later in the afternoon and keep driving toward Port Huron, MI, where we want to cross the border into Canada. We decided to cross in Port Huron for a few reasons: we skip having to go through Detroit, where we could hit more traffic, the distance between Chicago and London, ON is the same whether we take go through Detroit/Windsor or through Port Huron/Sarnia and we believe crossing the border in Port Huron will be easier and less busy.
Today, we crossed the remaining part of Wisconsin, all of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and, after crossing the Canadian border in Port Huron, MI, we settled in London, Ontario, Canada! We are now in the Eastern Time Zone, same as Quebec City, our final destination on this trip.
Our total mileage on this fourth day was 552 miles (888 km), over 11 hours of driving.
More updates on our border crossing and more later!
Dakx
