I got into Sault Ste. Marie after eight solid days of riding from Thunder Bay. Upon arrival I headed over to Tony Martin's house for the night. As an MP Tony had great media connections and he set up all that for me, it was great! I got onto CTV, in the Sault Star (front page!), and on a local radio station. Well-rested (and very well-fed) I moved to my second host in the Sault, Doug. Doug had left last year on a bicycle heading across Canada for his retirement. It was really cool to talk and spend time there.

Doug rode out of the Sault with me for the first 30km or so, which was great. He snapped the photo for me on a bridge on the old highway 17. A while back there was a plan to widen it to four lanes, which led to a dispute as it runs through a reserve. The message on the train bridge as a byproduct of that. In the end they built a bypass that runs a few kilometres north of this road.