It is moving on day again. Since we had our casino night last night (and I didn't do laundry), I was over at the laundry at 6:00 a.m. and got that taken care of. So I had a chance to capture the sunrise and take a few pictures of this very nice campground.
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We had a little trouble with our electric cord hooking up to the car, so Joe had to mess with that a little to get the brake lights on the car to come on, but we were on the road about 10:00, a beautiful, sunny morning in the 70s. We were on the hunt for fuel, and finally bit the bullet and paid $2.959 for some in Westfield, NY, then later saw a little area where gas was $2.599. Our Gas Buddy didn't tell us that.
We crossed the New York state line at 10:35, so we weren't very far from New York in Erie.
We mostly drove Highway 5 through here, jumping over to Highway 20 looking for fuel. We were going to hop up on I-90, but it was a toll road so we avoided that. Coming into Buffalo was pretty too, with the city of Buffalo sitting right on the banks of Lake Erie. I understand now why they frequently get large snowfalls here. Although Lake Erie was on one side, the industrial area on the other side of the highway was mostly vacated, and the buildings were in disrepair. There were some old steel mills, and a stamping mill (it might have been still operating). All very interesting stuff.
We picked up the bypass here and worked our way around to the northeast side to the town of Lockport, which is part of the Erie Canal system. We intend to take a cruise on that, going through the locks, while we are here.
As we drove around on the bypass, we spotted some buffalo statutes "grazing" but I barely got a picture of them. (you have to look close between the trees) I saw a few other buffalo statutes as we drove up to Lockport, so maybe I'll get a chance to take their picture later.
We arrived at our campground about 2:00, and settled in for the day. I even took a nap. Marilyn has been busy trying to get us set up with campgrounds in Canada for the next few days, and we are all trying to get our ducks in a row to cross the border -- insurance cards, notify credit card companies, add Canada to our phone plan. Get our passports out. We congregated again and made our plans here for the next couple of days, and then Marilyn and I beat Joe and Collins again in Hand & Foot.
We only drove 127 miles today, but the drive was very pretty, tons and tons of grape arbors through here, and several wineries.
The Canada phone plan we chose only gives us 100 talk minutes and 100 megabytes of data, but unlimited text. So anyone wanting to reach us after Monday should just text any of the three of us. I'll have to watch for WiFi to get the blog posted because we won't be using our Hotspot either. We think we will be in Canada for about a week, then coming into Detroit for a couple weeks before we head back to Canada for the long haul.
Today I should get to check off another item on my bucket list -- NIAGARA FALLS. I'm excited that I am getting to finally see that.
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