Day 1:  Trip schedule was thrown off initially by a need to visit a store in Barrie.  En route, I was forced on the gravel shoulder of the highway by a flashing police car.  My gosh, what a relief that he wasn’t after me for a traffic infraction.  I had forced the GPS to take me the slow way to Barrie, and almost as if in retribution, we ended up stopped on airport road with a tractor trailer on its side.  That resulted in a detour but I finally reached Barrie.  From there headed north and then south around Lake Simcoe.  I was beginning to think I would never turn east.   Continue reading →