Dude! You are asking someone who grew up in rural Ontario. First off, there's like, billions of lakes... do you want it to be a great lake, or just "a lake"?
If you want a shack in the middle of nowhere, but not too far off a major highway (or a popular highway for motorcycle odysseys) then I could recommend the area where my cottage is (Frontenac county), which has a lot of lakes and a lot of shacks... and it also fairly close to a secondary highway that someone driving across Canada would take if they wanted to see scenery and not just a four-lane highway.
But yeah, how big do you want the place to be? Do you want them close to a grocery store/small town? Or do you want them in the middle of nowhere? Because you could just put them next to any of the lakes up around Ompah, Ontario, and that would be the middle of nowhere with nothing around (but paved main-road for motorcycling). That's where my cottage is... if you look it up on google maps - highway 509 is paved and really hilly and winding, which makes it fun for motorcycles (my brother can attest to this), there's is only a church and community/firehall/library in town, and nothing else. Nearest grocery store is 20 minutes in the next town over (Plevna)... and Palmerston Lake has an island in it called Barnes Island.
So, yeah, Steve and Bucky could have been traveling between Toronto and Ottawa on highway 7, got a little bored between Kaladar and Perth (because my god, that highway is boring between Kaladar and Perth) and they could have turned up 509 for a little adventure, or because some local from Shabot Lake told them that the roads were fun...
I'll stop talking now - let me know if you had something less remote in mind, or wanted something in a different part of Ontario.
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Date: 2014-07-10 11:49 pm (UTC)If you want a shack in the middle of nowhere, but not too far off a major highway (or a popular highway for motorcycle odysseys) then I could recommend the area where my cottage is (Frontenac county), which has a lot of lakes and a lot of shacks... and it also fairly close to a secondary highway that someone driving across Canada would take if they wanted to see scenery and not just a four-lane highway.
But yeah, how big do you want the place to be? Do you want them close to a grocery store/small town? Or do you want them in the middle of nowhere? Because you could just put them next to any of the lakes up around Ompah, Ontario, and that would be the middle of nowhere with nothing around (but paved main-road for motorcycling). That's where my cottage is... if you look it up on google maps - highway 509 is paved and really hilly and winding, which makes it fun for motorcycles (my brother can attest to this), there's is only a church and community/firehall/library in town, and nothing else. Nearest grocery store is 20 minutes in the next town over (Plevna)... and Palmerston Lake has an island in it called Barnes Island.
So, yeah, Steve and Bucky could have been traveling between Toronto and Ottawa on highway 7, got a little bored between Kaladar and Perth (because my god, that highway is boring between Kaladar and Perth) and they could have turned up 509 for a little adventure, or because some local from Shabot Lake told them that the roads were fun...
I'll stop talking now - let me know if you had something less remote in mind, or wanted something in a different part of Ontario.