To Thunder Bay, ON - Aug 26, 2008 - Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada

A store in Grand Marais calls itself "World's Best Donuts" so I had to try those out for breakfast. They were very good, but I'm not sure if there as good as the donuts at the top of Pike's Peak. Grand Marais is a nice little resort town with quite a few shops, so I walked around there for a bit.

From there I went to Judge C. R. Magney State Park, which has a fairly strenuous 1.2-mile trail to the Devil's Kettle Falls on the Brule River. The river splits in two before going over the falls. One part continues downstream, but the other goes into a sinkhole and underground. Reportedly, all attempts to discover where that half of the river goes have failed.

Lunch was just a cheeseburger at a small restaurant inside a large convenience store at Grand Portage, very near the Canadian border. My last stop in the U.S. was a visit to the Grand Portage National Heritage site, once an important fur trading site run by the Northwest Company. There's a small re-creation of the site there with a few interpreters.

Driving into Canada towards Thunder Bay, I drove past some very dramatic mountains, some with exposed rock cliff faces. You'd almost think you were in the American southwest, except for all the pine trees covering the mountains.

After checking into my hotel, I had an excellent garlic caesar salad with salmon for dinner at Gargoyle Grille & Ale.