Who do we meet in Windsor? He meets a filmmaker who is a female version of Otto Budj.
Who do we meet in Amherstburg? He meets a woman who sews sails for the HMS Detroit. Maybe a woman who is involved in the new nature preserves, a Canadian who lived in California. When there's no ice, fresh water is as good as salt.
Who do we meet in Kingsville? He meets a widow, young and recently widowed, who celebrated her wedding night at that place in Kingsville. This is where pictures are taken and sent to the ceramic preservationist. Does someone drive, and the two people in the party bicycle along the Greenway, the path taken by Walker's train?
Of course, he must experience sundown at Jack Miner's, preferably on Sunday when the complex is closed. For how long does he see Canadian geese descend down, down, down, on extended wings? Surely he can meet people, especially women bird watchers, who are still sexy enough to cause trouble, and pleasure.
When he takes the fast boat out to Pelee Island, it is from the Kingsville dock? There are a cast of women characters on The Island who enchant him: the woman from the visitor's center who gives him a ride in her beater import Honda, the Mennonite girl who draws the iconic pictures of women and then coats them with mysterious watercolor washes, the judge from London who wants him to play Misty for her, all the women from the love-triangle [lighthouse folks]. He places lawn chairs in the bed of his truck, and his new friends and he have a party in the maple leaves. Dinner party out a Pelee Island Winery, with the sun sinking in view of the screen window, accented with random growing grape leaves,
What was the hotel with the outdoor biffies in Port Burwell: or is it Rowan? How do we learn the names of these old hotels?
At Long Point Bird Observatory, does he have a close encounter of a first kind with a woman who has traveled from Britain for training? Do they have sex on crown lands? After all, it is still Queen Elizabeth's bust engraved on the currency.
Who knows who is the benefactor? Is it the Canadian Government trying to garner support for Superbuild? Is it Wynn trying to develop a new idea for a theme casino?
The male lead is an American man from Detroit, Michigan who has been laid off. He sends in a chance resume to an ad on Hot Jobs for a travel writer, and he is granted a phone interview [just as weird as one of those airport interviews with the operative or the sales recruiter]. By FedEx, he receives instructions on how to proceed, the account numbers of a bank account that will replenish every two weeks, and an American Express card with instructions on how to file expense reports. These will be deposited in his bank account.
The phone interview comes from a restricted number. The voice is male, but it doesn't have any distinguishing accent. The caller is not identified.
In Ashtabula, he realizes that only bikers have the discipline and the cohesion to handle the hard route through Pennsylvania and the quiet, empty counties of Erie, Ashtabula and Lake. What was the last tourist restaurant to succumb to lack of tourist traffic? It is not easy to drive the road closest to the south shore of Lake Erie, even if it Hwy 20. What is the ravine where railroad bridges and cement groin highway bridges fail? To whom does he talk about the Chinese woman who escaped the train in Ashtabula and found refuge at a Chinese restaurant?
What is the extent of punter culture?
What women lost their men during the attack on Fort Erie? Who had to fish their lover's body out of the Beaver Ponds?
In the interview, he is asked seemingly silly questions about directions. Point Pelee is actually south of Erie, Pennsylvania. How many minutes does it take to the sun to rise across Lake Erie, starting in Buffalo? (15 minutes)
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