Legendary Pancakes at The Hoito

Did you know Thunder Bay has the largest Finnish population outside of Scandinavia?  Neither did we, until someone pointed it out to us on Twitter.  We’re extremely grateful they did, because that’s how we ended up with a plate of crazy good pancakes for lunch when we passed through.

Summer on the 'Lake of the Woods'

Sometimes the connections we make on our trip are wonderfully obscure.  Take Kenora for example; we decided to stop there our way through northern Ontario because my friend Allieren’s friend Lindsay asked her friend Steve to take us fishing on his boat.  Who could pass up an opportunity like that?