Blame it on Gregor!: HELLO CANADA!!!

We arrived yesterday afternoon on our bikes to Port Heron and loaded in the trucks with our passports in hand to drive over beautiful Lake Heron into Canada and the port town of Sarnia. Quickly we found a bank for exchange. Rates are parallel to the U.S. but the bills look totally different. Canada's bills are prettier. Their coin is called Loonies and Toonies. Next stop, the Up and Down Bar and hopefully the locals that can direct us to our next destination....Hotel! Seems every waitress we have anywhere is on the first day of the job however this waitress had a bar tender (girl) who was knowledgable and led us right around the corner to our best/cheapest hotel yet. $59 Canadian money.....Not bad accommodations either. We are starting out on our bikes again shortly and I am only taking advantage of this time as Margie over slept this morning and bought me some blog time. Anyways this will continue later as our adventure continues.

I need to regress a little and mention Wisconsin and Michigan.....Wisconsin was beautiful and very neat and tidy. I personally enjoyed the rides thru their countryside with soft, gentle hills and beautiful farms, and homes and more and more lawns.......Michigan was a little rough at the first. Rough in the sense that it was not neat and tidy and looking more depressed. Hangover from Detroit! As we got further East the last two days were better scenery. Loads and loads of trees all over this state. We managed to avoid Flint Michigan which is the murder capital of the states.....We stayed in a lovely State campground on a lake. This one had decent showers which have been in short supply as of late. For those of you tracking us on the road maps this was East of Davidson, Michigan. Our routes have changed slightly from time to time due to road construction and poor quality roads and traffic. Traffic has really been a bear the last few days with no real bike lanes of any kind and did I mention the Rain Storm that sent Margie, Mike and Ray into hiding under a families shed. Fortunate for me I was driving at the moment.

I can not forget the Ferry Ride leaving Wisconsin heading into Michigan. The entering and leaving Michigan were obviously the highlights. The Ferry was amazing and quite comfortable. I spent most of my time on the lower deck in soft, reclining movie chairs watching a little t.v. and mostly sleeping. Ray and Margie stayed up top for a while and Mike slept in the plastic chairs up top. Margie was thrilled with her up top location until she realized the black coal powering the Ferry was spewing black soot all thru her hair, skin and up her nose.....Sleeping downstairs proved to be a wise decision. This Ferry is the last remaining coal powered Ferry in the nation. It will be transformed sometime next year and will no longer run on coal. It took four hours to cross Lake Michigan. Hardly seems like these are lakes, Oceans is more like it. Again, beautiful and a wonderful experience.

U.S. side looking over to Canada