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| A great spangled fritillary butterfly, the only bug we met not bent on piercing our flesh and drinking our blood. |
The Ontario Northland bus from Toronto Yorkdale to Sudbury has 23 stops on the way. We disembarked at stop 19, the Key River Marina, where our friends Kate and Ed picked us up and took us to their cottage on the shore of the Pickerel River.
As for bus travel, five hours on the ground - the time it takes to get to Key River - is infinitely more tolerable than five in the air. There's less terror of falling from the skies for one thing. And more scenery.
On the Sunday morning trip north, there was almost no one on the bus with us. There was a cheerful, gregarious driver who kept the schedule like the Sabbath.
On the Wednesday evening trip south, by the time it got to Key River, the bus didn't have two empty seats together. We commandeered the seats a woman and her luggage vacated at Mactier. That put us across the aisle from another woman with a shocking cough.
The Northlander bus is fine. It improves with fewer fellow passengers.
Thanks for reading!
Have a great week!
Karen
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