First vacation in a long time -- Kelly and I headed for Owen Sound, home of the Summerfolk folk music festival. We had met Steve Briggs, one of the Summerfolk board members, through the HPV (Human Powered Vehicles) email list (most HPV's discussed on the list are recumbent bicycles and tricycles).
Steve and his partner Liane invited us to stay on their lawn and ride to and from the festival from their house. That was a great boon, and it was a wonderful place to stay. The festival was terrific, with many great performers, in relatively small venues (all outdoors, at the edge of the Sound). Tom Paxton, Guy Clark, Tanglefoot, Nobody You Know, Moxie Fruvous, the Arrogant Worms, Nickel Creek, Linda Tillery, and the Kanata Native Dancers all stick out in my mind a month later as I write this.
I forgot to take any pictures until after the festival was over, when we headed further around Georgian Bay to Parry Sound, a place they call the "30,000 Islands". We took a boat tour of the Sound which included passing through a rotating bridge. Also I got a snapshot of Kelly on the boat.
We kept seeing these signs all around our trip -- they seem to be saying "lookout, a firetruck is about to drive into your zipper!" (There were also trucks, snowmobiles, and mooses on some signs.) Well, anyway...
Then we drove and camped our way around the rest of the Bay, crossing to Manitoulin Island, and then taking the ferry back to Tobermory. (That's a shot from the car deck inside the ferry -- a 323 foot boat that can hold 150 cars and 450 people. You can sort of see that there are two levels of cars, and you can see the crack of daylight where the bow is opening to let us out. That's where the most photogenic pictures of the trip happened. I'll just list the rest here:
last updated September 9, 1998
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