Where can you see a giant cow on the side of the road? How about towns were everything is closed up by 9pm at night? Towns that are filled with history, yet are forgotten today?

The answer is simple, in Northern Ontario. It's a whole other provience once you get past the French River, and even more so once you're past the last two major population centres of Sudbury and North Bay. The book "Northern Lights" allows you to follow a journey that myself and three friends took (often wearing Stormtrooper and Darth Vader masks) up north. While on the trip in addition to taking photos I also journalled about the trip, a daily log of the places we visited, then combining that with a good 100 pages of notes, and the mass amounts of photos I took put them all together, the results: Northern Lights.

Orignally titled "MAYPEX: A Four Day Journey through Northern Ontario, was an idea myself and the three compaions put together at New Year's Eve in 2008 and was done over the May Long Weekend of '09. We travelled through such towns as Nobel, Alban, Cobalt, and Ramore, visiting the odd sites along the way and of course abandoned locations. Originally the idea was to camp the whole time, the weather put a stop to that. And now, almost a year later it is finally published. This 64-page book allows you to read about our trip, and the history of the roads we travelled and the towns we stopped in.