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The Garden of His Turbulence
September 6, 2024 — Day 6 KOA Niagara Falls, Ontario CA Today was the “wet” day. On deck was the Maid of the Mist boat ride to the falls. Except we didn’t since they leave from the American side. This is new because until a few years ago they left from both sides of the falls. It’s the same company still, but in Canada it is called City Experience and in the US it’s called Maid of the Mist. We were meeting with our friends Yasmin and Hussein for lunch afterwards so we didn’t want to have the extra hassle of a border crossing in both directions as coming to…
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Gas Station Pizza
September 5, 2024 – Day 5 Letchworth State Park, Castile, NY — KOA Niagara Falls, ON, Canada Oh, Canada! Ok, we’re jumping ahead — but Canada! It’s today! We had two choices of bridges to cross into Canada, the Peace Bridge and the Rainbow Bridge. Peace is the southern one, near Buffalo, Rainbow is right by the falls. The Rainbow Bridge was a city route. Paul really wanted to do the Rainbow bridge because it looked more direct. Susan wanted to do the Peace Bridge because the wait was shorter. Plus, once we crossed into Canada the drive was mostly farmland until very near to the KOA. First we needed…
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The Elusive Lower Falls
September 4, 2024 — Day 4 Letchworth State Park, Castile, NY Now that we had the lay of the land we knew what lay south of us – that pretty 20-30 minute drive – we were off to try and find the Lower Falls. But first it was time for lunch. Although the Parkland Diner was fun we also know that with minimal preparation we can easily pack a lunch to eat while taking in a beautiful view at one of the many overlooks. We went back to one from yesterday where we saw a couple having a picnic lunch. As we were enjoying “our” spot another couple sat down…
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The “cough” Grand Canyon of the East “cough”
September 3, 2024 Letchworth State Park Ok, about the title. We didn’t decide to call Letchworth State Park the “Grand Canyon of the East,” NY State decided that. And the park isn’t bad. Actually? It’s pretty awesome! But Grand Canyon of the East? That’s a pretty lofty claim. mmm…we think some market-droid had a little too much latte in the afternoon. (susan here: a tipple laden latte.) Ok, it is pretty impressive. The Genesee River comes through here, dropping three pretty impressive waterfalls in a short distance. There are 66 miles of hiking trails, not that we hike much, however 2 of the 3 waterfalls are easily accessible from the…
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Snowbelt NY
September 2, 2024 Woodland Farms Brewery, Utica NY — Letchworth State Park, Castile, NY Not much to say today, we had a nice easy drive through some very scenic countryside. Since it was a short drive we started off with “Avoid Highways” on. It was only going to add about an hour and we had time to spare so why not! About halfway through it got super hilly so we just went back to the highway. Here are some of the things we saw: Utica NY Waterville NY Skaneateles, NY (and Apple Maps calls this Skaneateles, Snowbelt, United States, huh?) Leicester, NY Perry, NY Castile, NY We pulled into the…
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The Cabin Fever Tour
September 1, 2024 — Day 1 Keene NH – Utica NY So you all get to make a ruling on this. In the early planning stages for our late Fall trip to Phoenix, Susan realized that we could go via Canada and visit our friends Yasim and Hussein. This meant that Susan had to (finally!) get her passport. Paul has been bugging her for 14 years to get one. As she was doing the paperwork for her passport she asked Paul, “Do you know where yours is?” Paul did know but on a lark decided to have a look at it and woah. It was going to expire mid-September! Quite…
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Hammer Down
June 5, 2024 — Day 82 Liquid Spring, Lafayette IL — Ottawa Metro Park, Lima, OH Susan woke up feeling really lousy (susan here: Prime suspect is the taqueria. Foreshadowing here, I had a miserable couple days coming at me. You haven’t lived until you’re bouncing around in your seat in an RV with a painful, nauseous stomach. Yeah, I know, too much info. But such is the “glamorous life” of your favorite RV bloggers.). She’d been looking forward to the test drive and factory tour at Liquid Spring. So, brave thing she is (susan here: stubborn, perhaps?) sucked it up and soldiered on. We were quite happy to find out…
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Feed Me Tacos & Tell Me I’m Pretty
June 4, 2024 – Day 81 Starved Rock Family Campground, Utica, Illinois — Liquid Spring Factory Parking Lot, Lafayette IL (Note to readers, we’ve been home for awhile. Today is September 5 and we’re just now resuming the blog, because, well, we’re on the road for more adventures! We need to find a way to keep the blog fun but less work. If you don’t read all the awesome entries we write we won’t hold it against you, honest! We’re doing this for ourselves as much as all our friends. Believe it or not we like re-reading it from time to time. Back to the blog already in progress…) The…
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Beam Us Up Scotty
June 3, 2024 – Day 80 Kalona City Park, Kalona City Iowa – Starved Rock Family Campground, Utica, Illinois Before heading out, we needed to get that flat tire fixed. Paul found a tire place in town and there was a 2 hour wait! That was just too long on a travel day so he decided to drive the half hour to Iowa City. The first place he stopped could do the job and fixed it in just a few minutes. The service was so fast he couldn’t get to enjoy the luxurious waiting room. He next went to a Harbor Freight to buy the breaker bar and a small…
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At Least the Beer Wasn’t Flat
June 2, 2024 – Day 79 Kalona City Park, Kalona City Iowa We just hung out today, played some games probably, blogged — maybe. It’s just that now a more than a week after we got home we can’t remember. That’s what happens when the travel switch flips and you start stringing long travel days together. We do remember dinner though. And that the special thing over in Riverside, IA was closed tomorrow. Finding good pizza on the road can be a challenge. Based on reviews, we headed over to have dinner at the Kalona Brewing Company. On the way over the TMPS beeped, “low pressure.” We can still roll…