Today's leg of our vacation will finally take us back in to Canada. And once again it will be a short ride. With a lot of time to spare in the morning, I made a trip to a local bank with the goal of exchanging our loose change into paper bills. When I came back we all went for breakfast. We checked only a couple of minutes before mandatory check-out time of 11am. We rode across the street to get gas at a Tops station and we were cruising towards Canada. As has been the case all week, we were taking the back roads since we had less than 300km to cover.
We made a couple of stops along the way including the final fuel stop in Oswego, NY. Even though it was sunny and cloudless, riding along Lake Ontario was a little cool. Our final stop in the US was minutes from the order for the purpose of getting our paperwork in order. A couple of hundred feet from where we stopped, we passed a motorist who was in the middle of the road trying to poke a snapping turtle back onto the shoulder. Of course, the turtle was having none of that and was visibly angry.
The border crossing at the end of I-81 was very easy with only a couple of questions thrown our way. Then we took the scenic 1000 Islands Parkway to Gananoque where we stayed at a Best Western which had a salt-water pool and hot tub. Both of which worked! Heather, Sandy and I used those amenities after we all had supper at the hotel restaurant. We were one of the last people to leave the restaurant around 7 as they were closing to prepare for a tour bus from Quebec. While at the pool we met a couple from Toronto who were here on their Harley.
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