Day 30

Day 30; Watertown NY to Hamilton Ontario Canada

Welcome to Canada! Well not yet because I haven't told you how we got here. When we got started this morning, so did the rain. We rode north on highway 81 up top the Canadian border crossing the Thousand Island Bridge. I can't tell you how many islands there actually were because I could barely see the river below me. Luckily we got out of the storm before we stopped for lunch.

Both of us were soaked (the rain gear couldn't stop the storm from getting in), so we found a place to go in and eat. We found John's restaurant in Napanee. John is 86 years old and runs his own restaurant because he enjoys it. restaurant He stayed telling us about himself as we were paying the bill. He emigrated from Greece and worked on a farm while sleeping with the cows. His inheritance from his father was a 2 dollar bill that he had laminated, and carries it in his wallet. Obviously he started his restaurant and continues to run it because he has fun doing it. The man is truly inspirational.

The rest of the day included a lot of good riding weather and beautiful views as we rode next to the lake. Toward the end of the day, we stopped in Toronto for dinner. Dad found a BBQ place called Montana's grill. We had terrible reception on our phones, so we asked the waitress if there were good places to stay on the west side of Toronto (so we don't have traffic in the morning). She didn't really know, but her mother (she was having dinner with her daughter) was full of helpful information! Then we got to talking about all kinds of stuff (she made the night go to the next level of awesome). Dinner ended up being two hours which made it so we didn't stop riding until after 10 tonight, but it was worth it.

We got rained on again tonight before we got to the hotel. Hopefully our gear will dry out tonight. Niagara falls tomorrow! (I guess it doesn't really matter if our stuff dries out). Anyway, time for sleep.

Bye now, LB