Cambria (just west of Niagara Falls), NY, August 29 -- What an interesting -- and sometimes harrowing -- day!! Charlie and I left Michigan around 11:30 and then drove for several hours -- via Ontario -- to get here. We seemed to be in another world. The miles seemed to fly by -- oh wait! They were kilometers so of course they flew by. Converting mph to kph is interesting: 100 kilos is approximately 63-64 miles, 80 kph is about 50 mph -- so between 5/8ths and 2/3rds I think. In fact, we covered so many kilos we could have been on a world tour. We drove over the Thames River into London, past Melbourne and St. Thomas and Stratford and Avon and other similar places. At least the Canadians have a sense of humor: naming a river outside of London, Ont., the Thames. Made ME chuckle. Having just come from Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan where so many names have Native American origins or roots it was a bit odd to find all these -burgs and -hams and things so veddy British.
One big thing I noticed is that just about EVERY exit had signs for golf courses, sometimes two or three. I am NOT kidding. I've never seen so many golf courses.
Charlie was very disappointed that there were absolutely NO rest stops between Michigan and New York. We ended up pulling off and finding a WalMart to park in so he could at least mark Ontario as part of his territory. So far he’s got quite an impressive list. In spite of the lack of rest stops, the roads were among the best I’ve been on yet.
I was disappointed that my atlases weren’t as helpful as I would have liked and since I had no place to pull over (no rest stops) I had to try to read the maps while driving. Tricky! London and Hamilton are really quite large: London was about 250,000 population and Hamilton close to half-a-million. But wait -- how does that convert from the metric system?? . . . kidding. I managed to get through lots of traffic and found my way to Niagara Falls and then across the bridge into the good old USA again. Coming through the port of entry was a bit scary, too. The slots are SOOOO narrow. I ended up bumping my passenger side mirror on one of their overhead lights or cameras or something. Thank God they didn’t arrest me as a terrorist or anarchist or crazy woman. They were actually quite kind and helpful and I thanked them profusely for the work they do protecting our borders (of course, I also mentioned my previous employer).
So we managed to park the rv without further incident and are here for two nights. I will either get a tour or drive the car back to Ontario and the Falls. They are impressive and not to be missed if you are ever in this area. Pictures on the next post! Promise. Just before getting to the rv park, we drove past a little produce stand so once we got all set up here, I drove back and bought a fresh ear of corn, some new potatoes and peaches and a pretty pot of flowers for my Mo. Nice, and all for only $12. Yummy dinner but I am going to have to find a grocery store soon as I’m running out of food -- meat in particular. Tonight I had to settle for a hotdog.
No great, impressive thoughts today as my mind was kept quite busy just keeping track of the kilo conversions and all the traffic.
Till tomorrow, then . . .
TravelinLady
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