Reflections of My Travel

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We got up this morning and did some more sight-seeing/photography around Vieux Québec during the daylight. I love this City!!! It is so wonderful! We then headed over to the Beaupré district to visit Le Parc de la Chute-Montmorency. The main waterfall was very large and pretty. The best part about it though was that you could get SO close to it. There was a platform that you could walk up to that was probably about 15′ from the foot of the falls. Of course, we did walk up there and got absolutely soaked! Which felt good in the very cold northern air. We then walked over to one of the smaller falls and then got on the road. Our goal was to make it past Montreal, into Ontario so that we could make it to Detroit tomorrow. We made it to a little town called Brooksville and stayed at a very nice B&B. If I could remember the name of it, I would give it a plug.

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Had a yummy breakfast (I love B&Bs!) and then headed out. The owners had recommended that we take a tour-cruise of the Thousand Islands area so we set off with the intentions of doing that. We got there and purchased our tickets and the lady angered me (first not-nice Canadian we’d met). We waited around a little while but before long, there were 7 huge tour buses full of people there to get on the same boat as us. Since I was still perturbed by the ticket lady, and we didn’t feel like being sardines for a pleasure tour, we decided to get a refund and get on the road instead. We made it to Detroit just as the sun was getting low. I HAVE NOW BEEN TO ALL 48 CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES!!! (and 3 Canadian Provinces!) I was really surprised to see such nice foliage. To this point in our trip, MI had the nicest foliage.

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We pretty much decided just to head back to Jenny’s today. We got up semi-early and drove/walked around downtown Detroit by the river. We then crossed back into Canada and headed toward NY. It was a nice leisurely drive and there were a few spots of nice foliage, but not much. We crossed back to the American side around 18:00 and called Jenny to let her know we were on our way. I’m pleased to say that I even found our way through Buffalo back to where she lives (NEVER ask Jenny for directions anywhere!). Mike was still at work so the three of us went to Anchor Bar – home of the Buffalo Wings – and had a very yummy dinner. They were very good wings, and huge, but they would have been so much better with garlic tnt. So it goes. We stayed up and talked with Mike for a while when he came home and then we crashed on the living room floor.