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A Detour on the Road to Ottawa

Mon, 26 Jul 2010, 05:06 AM (-06:00) Creative Commons License

We took a detour on the road to Ottawa, leaving the 401 for Prince Edward County (not to be confused with Prince Edward Island, which of course is of far, far away).

Our detour took us down a two-lane road running thru farmland with apple trees and grape vines and corn and amber waves of grain. It took us thru small towns with old buildings: Wellington, Bloomfield, Picton.

Lake Ontario was just beyond the produce stand by the side of the road, where we bought corn, carrots, peaches and two whole pies (apple and strawberry-rhubarb).


A photo of Lake Ontario just beyond the produce stand.

And it was also just beyond the end of the streets in Wellingon.


A photo of Lake Ontario just beyond the end of a street in Wellington.

Slicker’s ice cream shop sold hand-made, hand-packed ice cream made from now-in-season blackberries, and the girl behind the counter probably thought us crazy tourists for the size of the tip we left.


A photo of Trudy enjoying blackberry ice cream outside Slickers.

It was rush hour in Picton just as we rolled into town.


A photo of the traffic we encountered in Picton just as we went thru town.

We saw horses and barns and Canadian flags flapping in the breeze.


A photo of a horse ranch, barns and four flying Canadian flags.

And we saw Union Jacks. (This was, after all, the Loyalist Parkway.)


A photo of a Union Jack flying outside one of the buildings along the Loyalist Parkway.

And we caught the ferry to get back to the “mainland” and continue our drive east.


A photo of a ferry boat taken from the ferry we were on as we crossed the water on highway 33.

Highway 4 took us back to the 401.


A photo of a sign showing highway 4 as the road back to the 401.

And the 401 put us back on the road to Ottawa, where my Dad and Khadija awaited our years-overdue arrival.


A photo of a highway 401 sign along the eastbound road to Ottawa.

Thus ended our detour on the road to Ottawa.

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