Somewhere in Ontario… near Upsala I think?
You know how fond I am of rest stops. In Ontario, they don’t have ’em. Well they do kind of… they call them picnic areas, and they appear quite frequently on the highways. Sometimes they’re really lovely, sometimes they’re kind of drab. They usually have little bathrooms, but not always. But the salient point for me is that they’re closed at night, and signs explicitly say that anyone parked there overnight will be towed. Bastards!
However in this part of the province there are many old unused logging roads that plunge from the highway straight into the woods. I picked the wrong one in the sense that the road became too thick to drive on it while I was still in sight of the highway, but once I was there I didn’t feel like moving.
I need to rig some kind of bug screen on my windows: on a hot night having to choose between fresh air or freedom from bloodsucking motherfucking killer bugs just isn’t fair!
Salient…great word. Old medievel french.
With regard to Ontario and picnic areas…they are not patrolled regularly and it is OPP that do. Most are reasonable. No cop is going to give you issue over pulling over to rest doing a cross country drive. It is safer to rest than to endanger others and cops are road warriors that way, they understand. I have driven Canada and the States and be questioned by them but not seriously when you say your taking a bit of rest. A lot of people think cops are the enemy, they are not…they are just on patrol. They have a lot of discretion and unless your up to no good they generally let you be. That is my experience at least.
J