A few noises woke me up last night but it was most likely squirrels. For such tiny creatures they are obnoxiously loud at times. Today I was hoping to push the 175 km to Sault St. Marie but the hills combined with the amazing beaches along lake Superior all slowed my progress. I was more then happy to stop a few times at various sand beaches throughout the day for a quick break and splash from the water.
At one point I was stopped along the shore eating an apple and the remainder of my trail mix and just lazily staring at the water. I ended up sitting there for some time enjoying the scenery before I headed off again up the road to discover a truck flipped over and surrounded by police and fire trucks. I didn't stop to ask but it looked like the truck had been in the northbound lane before it lost control and flipped over eventually skidding to a stop on the shoulder of the southbound lane.
It was a bit shocking to see such a thing and I wondered if my sitting at the shore had set me off the path of being crushed by that truck. That got me thinking about Quinn's tour to raise awareness for organ donation. His only message to me was to make people aware of my desire to be an organ donor. My license states I am an organ donor and I think here and now is a great place to say that when I do die you can give my body over to be carved up and used as the medical community sees best. Don't burn or bury me, I've got some healthy bits to use! It would be pretty cool if you could recycle the metal rod in my left tibia into something useful as well.
Back to the day, I had wanted to cover 175 km to Sault St. Marie but at the 110 km mark I came across a spectacular beach with fine warm sand and ended up staying there for the night rather than cover the remaining 65 km and getting into town 11pm or later. I figured it would be too late to see if my warmshowers contact had got back to me and hunting for a church or walmart to camp on couldn't stand to the appeal of a warm quiet beach, so under the stars and on the soft sand I camp tonight.
