Niagara Falls, NY and Ontario, August 30 -- Wow what a way to close out my birthday month -- with a beautiful view of these beautiful falls! I splurged on a tour and we spent four hours looking at different sites here at the falls area. Heard lots of falls lore, including that the first person to go over the falls in a barrel was a 62-year-old school teacher who did the stunt to try to earn money for her retirement. She apparently took her cat with her -- the idea of going over the falls is stupid enough, but taking a CAT with you?! Certifiable.
There were seven people on the tour, including a very cute couple from Israel who are here for their honeymoon. They will be in the US for 45 days and their whirlwind tour will include Orlando, the Caribbean, California, Mexico and Hawaii. And those are only the places I can remember. They must pay well and give lots of vacation time in Israel. He took the picture of me at the falls. People from all over the world -- by the look of them and the wide variety of languages I heard -- visit the falls. Lucky for me it was a Thursday and was pretty quiet. I'm sure this weekend it will be a zoo!
So once again I'm glad I spent the time and money to do this. Both were well spent. Charlie didn't like me leaving him for almost five hours, but he'll survive.
I had a pretty successful day. I booked a week in Maine and two weeks in Massachusetts at Thousand Trails preserves. I decided to fly to Portland out of Boston -- Alaska has direct flights from Boston so that will work well and I'll get FF miles for it, too. The preserve I'm staying at is about 50 miles from Logan Intl. and I can catch a train fairly close to them. I should be able to leave my Mo right there -- either in a camping spot or in their storage area. The only problem now is figuring out what to do with Charlie and figuring out where I will stay while I'm in Portland. So I booked a ticket flying out of Logan on Oct. 3 and returning on Oct. 9. That way I'll miss less than a week of fall color and still be in New England. This preseve is also quite close to Cape Cod so I should be able to visit that area. Last time I was in Boston (87) John and I only got as far south as Plymouth. A friend who worked down the hall from me is from the East Coast and her mom is somewhere in Massachusetts. She told me last spring she thought her mom would be glad to take Charlie so that's one option to look into. (Sue, if you're reading this, get in touch with me!!). Other option is there are apparently a number of vets in the area that board pets.
I also contacted my insurance company to see if my insurance will cover the cost of replacing the inverter. They are supposed to get back to me. That would be nice! I hate taking money out of my savings (my house proceeds which I will need later when I decide where to settle) for things like that.
I LOVE having wifi right in my Mo -- which I have here because I am close enough to the lodge. It really helps me be organized and get things accomplished.
The one thing I didn't get accomplished today was find a grocery store so I'm pretty short on food here in the Mo. I'll have to open a can of soup or scramble some eggs or something. The farm stand was closed when I came back by so no fresh corn. And I'm out of milk so no latte tomorrow morning. Dang!
Tomorrow I meet up with Geri and will have a chance to do some shopping and maybe even some laundry!! Yippee! Amazing how simple our pleasures can be when we have been without such things for awhile.
TravelinLady
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