It's an easy drive mostly. The TCH to Thunder Bay and across to Wawa is rough at times, with lots of hills, and views only once in a while. There are quite a number of passing lanes on the hills though, and we passed our share. We both really hope to not come this way again. Go through the US instead, even if it means bringing home less BC wine!
We had a really good stop at Wawa. First we stopped at the tourist info place right at the entrance to the town. Washrooms, dog walk, Internet access (which we didn't use). Found out that the apparent shortcut from Wawa to Sudbury has quite a stretch of gravel in the middle. Maybe it will be an express route someday, as it's almost 100km shorter to Sudbury rather than via Sault Ste Marie.
Then we had a nice lunch in town, at a non-chain restaurant. Cath had one of their daily specials, bbq beef on a bun with fries. Gord had their house burger, and half of Cath's fries. Good fresh-cut fries.
Hwy 17 from Wawa to the Soo is much nicer than the earlier western section. Good surface, more downhill than up when going south, nice views. No gas for quite a ways south of Wawa, but we remembered this from last time, and made sure to fill up in Wawa.
The Soo has a pseudo-bypass for hwy 17 as you get into the north end of town. Once you get out past the old Boundary Rd at the east end though, you get shunted over to a brand-new 4-lane road that takes you out past the reserve, past Echo Bay etc, quite a few miles before rejoining the old route. The TCH changes confused the heck out of the Garmin, Jill was convinced we were off trekking through fields several times.
We camped at a crummy place right on the hwy, east of Thessalon. There was a town-run park right in Thessalon that would have been much better, but we needed a dump station and didn't see one there (self-service). We had a nice visit with the 2 other couples that were camped where we ended up though.
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