Well we survived our first big driving day. We managed to get ourselves all the way from Buffalo to Albany, via Canada! No, seriously.
We started our day by heading back to the falls but before we enjoyed our ventures there, we headed to the Canadian side of Niagara Falls. This involved us driving across the bridge, paying the toll and getting a Canadian stamp in our passport before parking the car and stepping out onto Canadian land. We had a gander and took lots of photos. This side of the falls is much prettier to look at and the Canadians certainly know how to entertain a crowd. There are mega hotels, casinos, a small theme park and much more dining options available. We stayed here for about 1 hr and then headed back to the US!
Once we were back in the US we headed to Cave of the Winds. This meant donning our ponchos again and still getting saturated. They give you open shoes that don't slip to badly on the wooden board walk and then you head to the bottom of the falls and walk to the hurricane deck (yep as it sounds water, wind and lots of speed involved). Again Toot got saturated and was forced to do a car park strip down of her bottom half (this time not including her underwear) before we got back in the car and onto the road. The tour bus of Koreans certainly enjoyed the show.
From here there wasn't really much excitement until we started to see the change of leaf colours along the road (this being the main reason for our driving portion of the trip). All was going smoothly until a small stone flicked up onto the windscreen and has now put a nice chip in it. Yep, awesome! After several failed attempts to call the roadside assistance part of the hire company we gave up and headed on our way to Albany. This is only a one night stop so that we can break up our driving and get to see some cool stuff tomorrow! Once we got to the hotel we managed to ring the car company and they said all was good and only notify them again if it gets worse and they will arrange a car swap. Phew!
Once settled into our travel lodge by the toothless beast named Wanda (not the fish), we headed across the road to The Cheesecake Factory for dinner and a piece of cake (which is now sitting on the bed in a takeaway box due to fullness from dinner). We thought it was rather convenient that one of our good places to eat was located so close to our head resting place. This was just luck, I promise!
After dinner, back to the room to organise tomorrow driving route through the pretty leaves and covered bridges of Vermont. This is en route to Stowe, our next stop for 2 nights and a nice B&B with full Vermont breakfast. Gordo is salivating while typing this.
Until then......goodnight.
PS Toot has informed me that she needs her beauty sleep!! No amount of sleep will help me!
We started our day by heading back to the falls but before we enjoyed our ventures there, we headed to the Canadian side of Niagara Falls. This involved us driving across the bridge, paying the toll and getting a Canadian stamp in our passport before parking the car and stepping out onto Canadian land. We had a gander and took lots of photos. This side of the falls is much prettier to look at and the Canadians certainly know how to entertain a crowd. There are mega hotels, casinos, a small theme park and much more dining options available. We stayed here for about 1 hr and then headed back to the US!
Once we were back in the US we headed to Cave of the Winds. This meant donning our ponchos again and still getting saturated. They give you open shoes that don't slip to badly on the wooden board walk and then you head to the bottom of the falls and walk to the hurricane deck (yep as it sounds water, wind and lots of speed involved). Again Toot got saturated and was forced to do a car park strip down of her bottom half (this time not including her underwear) before we got back in the car and onto the road. The tour bus of Koreans certainly enjoyed the show.
From here there wasn't really much excitement until we started to see the change of leaf colours along the road (this being the main reason for our driving portion of the trip). All was going smoothly until a small stone flicked up onto the windscreen and has now put a nice chip in it. Yep, awesome! After several failed attempts to call the roadside assistance part of the hire company we gave up and headed on our way to Albany. This is only a one night stop so that we can break up our driving and get to see some cool stuff tomorrow! Once we got to the hotel we managed to ring the car company and they said all was good and only notify them again if it gets worse and they will arrange a car swap. Phew!
Once settled into our travel lodge by the toothless beast named Wanda (not the fish), we headed across the road to The Cheesecake Factory for dinner and a piece of cake (which is now sitting on the bed in a takeaway box due to fullness from dinner). We thought it was rather convenient that one of our good places to eat was located so close to our head resting place. This was just luck, I promise!
After dinner, back to the room to organise tomorrow driving route through the pretty leaves and covered bridges of Vermont. This is en route to Stowe, our next stop for 2 nights and a nice B&B with full Vermont breakfast. Gordo is salivating while typing this.
Until then......goodnight.
PS Toot has informed me that she needs her beauty sleep!! No amount of sleep will help me!
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