Yesterday...
Took the road along the ‘coast’ of lake ontario and visited Youngstown very briefly, on the way to Niagara Falls.
Niagara falls was pretty good. We were only there for about 2 1/2 hours. Both of us decided that the view of the rapids from three sisters islands was actually more awe inspiring than the falls themselves- not that they weren’t amazing.
Sooner or later we will put some photo’s up here. To be honest there are loads of things we haven’t caught on camera because neither of us big camera people- even tho I bought a new one for the trip.
So... yesterday was our first experience of camping since we hit the road. Oh yes... before that, we went to Buffalo, and to Cleveland (where we ate at a nice diner called Tommy’s- Sam had his first american burger and I had some weird falafel thing that was very very tasty)
So... the camping. We entrusted ourselves to the sat nav again. We hit the road from Cleveland and looked for campsites en route to Detroit. There was supposedly one a little way outside Cleveland and we were both tired and it was late. We went for it. Having followed the ‘turn left’ ‘turn right’ etc we thought we’d been fooled again as we ‘had reached our destination’ and there was nothing but a florists and a barn. But we turned round and drove past more slowly onto to find ‘camp wa-hoo’... sounds amazing doesn’t it. In fact the sign said ‘the wahoo tavern’ with ‘camping ground’ written in small underneath.
The tavern was awesome. I wish I’d taken a photo. It was classic... a few locals playing pool with the barmaid, stuffed bears, a couple of sketchy looking americans drinking Bud. I felt a little out of place.
Anyway, we got our pitch and set up the tent in the illumination of the headlights (it was 1030). We got to bed by 11.
Luckily they had a washroom so we don’t smell today. Altogether a good night for $15 I’d say.
Now we’re back on the road heading toward Grand Rapids, MI. We decided to give Detroit a miss a everyone told us it was a waste of space (sorry if you like it!) Grand Rapids is of interest because of its fame for Christian publishing. From here we will head north a little and find more camping or a cheap motel.
Its a beautifully sunny day today. We’ve hot quite a lot of rain, but the rain cleared once we got the Niagara Falls and it turned glorious. Today its even nicer... I guess since we are heading west a south a bit this is what we’d expect. On top of that the gas is getting cheaper so PTL!
Signing off
M
Took the road along the ‘coast’ of lake ontario and visited Youngstown very briefly, on the way to Niagara Falls.
Niagara falls was pretty good. We were only there for about 2 1/2 hours. Both of us decided that the view of the rapids from three sisters islands was actually more awe inspiring than the falls themselves- not that they weren’t amazing.
Sooner or later we will put some photo’s up here. To be honest there are loads of things we haven’t caught on camera because neither of us big camera people- even tho I bought a new one for the trip.
So... yesterday was our first experience of camping since we hit the road. Oh yes... before that, we went to Buffalo, and to Cleveland (where we ate at a nice diner called Tommy’s- Sam had his first american burger and I had some weird falafel thing that was very very tasty)
So... the camping. We entrusted ourselves to the sat nav again. We hit the road from Cleveland and looked for campsites en route to Detroit. There was supposedly one a little way outside Cleveland and we were both tired and it was late. We went for it. Having followed the ‘turn left’ ‘turn right’ etc we thought we’d been fooled again as we ‘had reached our destination’ and there was nothing but a florists and a barn. But we turned round and drove past more slowly onto to find ‘camp wa-hoo’... sounds amazing doesn’t it. In fact the sign said ‘the wahoo tavern’ with ‘camping ground’ written in small underneath.
The tavern was awesome. I wish I’d taken a photo. It was classic... a few locals playing pool with the barmaid, stuffed bears, a couple of sketchy looking americans drinking Bud. I felt a little out of place.
Anyway, we got our pitch and set up the tent in the illumination of the headlights (it was 1030). We got to bed by 11.
Luckily they had a washroom so we don’t smell today. Altogether a good night for $15 I’d say.
Now we’re back on the road heading toward Grand Rapids, MI. We decided to give Detroit a miss a everyone told us it was a waste of space (sorry if you like it!) Grand Rapids is of interest because of its fame for Christian publishing. From here we will head north a little and find more camping or a cheap motel.
Its a beautifully sunny day today. We’ve hot quite a lot of rain, but the rain cleared once we got the Niagara Falls and it turned glorious. Today its even nicer... I guess since we are heading west a south a bit this is what we’d expect. On top of that the gas is getting cheaper so PTL!
Signing off
M
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