Deflection

I just saw that it was 90 degrees in Whitewater, and I am glad that I am on the north side of Lake Superior were the high was 68 degrees.

Today, was a long hard drive, from Lake Superior Provencal Park to Rainbow Falls Provencal Park. Regarding the number of long hills I drove up and down, I might as well been in the mountains. My poor truck, it seems like I always have my foot on the accelerator, and I hope that I am not waring it out, since I like the style of the 2018 GMC pick up. There is not even a scratch in the paint. I just take good care of it.

The highway is unbelievable, as stated by a highway engineer. The pavement has depressions, tire rutting, and cracks. It its hard to determine why there is so many depressions in the pavement, By going through the area of the ingenious rocks, there does not seem to be a reason for depressions in the pavement, since the whole grade can be build out of rock, but the depression are there. In the area of what looks like permafrost, obviously it is too warm for permafrost, but the poor soil must be so deep that they cannot remove it to make for a highway that will not settle. So, there are all these depressions that can range for holes to trench. By driving down the highway, they can come up so fast that the driver has to depend on the vehicle to take them through the area under control. Coming down hill, with the trailer pushing me, it can become difficult to get trough these depressions at higher speeds than you really want to drive through them at with the rig. Although the pavement is not that old, there is also rutting of the pavement. One thing that would stop most of these depressions would be a good drainable base under the pavement with longitudinal drain tile under the edge of the pavement, and this would remove the water not allowing the water to make the grade soft causing the depressions. After driving a couple of hundred miles today, I saw no drain tiles. From what I am seeing, Canada is not putting the money into the engineering of these highways.

Just northwest of the city of Dubuque, US 52 had old cable guardrails that would move hold any vehicle driving through them. Iowa DOT maintenance installed reflectors on the post and they were call delineator guardrails. Here in Canada, they have miles of old three cable guardrail, and, although they are not as old as the ones on US 52, there also will not hold any vehicle that would go through them. The granular shoulders are bad, too. There is like a three-inch drop off next to the pavement and it has high slope. There is no way that any driver could pull a vehicle on the shoulder to change a tire. And, as of yesterday, there was a white pick up that went off the highway and was up side down in the ditch. The highways take nothing but total concentration to drive.

As for today, I drove around 200 miles, but I stopped several times just to take a break. With the amount of concentration that it takes to drive this highway, I need breaks to stay focused on the highway.

As for my plans, I am here in this campground for three nights, or three days. I will take some time to relax. There are trails for me to hike.

Roger