Day 9 - Niagara on the Lake to Medina, NY - about 50 miles

Back in the USA and sleeping in a motel tonight after two nights in our tents. From our campground the day began with a short climb on a 10% grade and then a longer climb of 5% to get the Queenston-Lewiston bridge. We had an uneventful border crossing, but waited in line with many Canadian cars at the US side of the bridge. They were probably on the way to the US for shopping.

Sorry for the lack of pictures - WiFi and phone connections are not freely available...We will add pictures when we are back home in Rochester.

The weather has been cooperating with us - today, we had mostly great tail winds, allowing us to travel at about 16 - 17 miles per hour without too much effort. We ended up at the Dollinger Motel in Medina around 2 pm. Son Christoph drove up from Erie, PA to spend some time with us in Medina. So, we walked around and ended up eating at an Italian restaurant in town (food was great).

Tomorrow we are on our final leg - and it looks like we will not be riding much of the distance together, since the Napp's have to head to a more southerly direction to get home than the Nawrocki's.

It looks like the entire trip will be slightly longer than 600 miles...but everyone, the bicycles and trailers held up really well.

We are all looking forward to spending a night in a real bed (first time since our first night in Oswego)...

Until tomorrow...Cheers...

Day 7 Toronto to Burlington

Arrived safely after 59 miles. In a clean campground in Burlington and ready for a good night's sleep. More tomorrow if we get web access.

Day 6 - Rest day in beautiful Toronto...0 miles !!!

Here's Kathie on the bridge overlooking Rouge Hill nature area outside of Toronto on our way in from Port Hope.


Ahhhh...our first rest day, after 5 days, averaging 80 miles...! Our ride into Toronto, yesterday, was a bit tiring, because all these days on the road we were spoiled with little traffic - as we got closer to the city of Toronto, traffic worsened rather quickly. However, we made it safely to Enno Agur's home at about 6:30 pm. As always, we were welcomed with the greatest hospitality one could ask for. For dinner, we BBq'd the most delicious foods (Thanks Kristina & Anne !), had plenty of wine and a great time.



Today we split up and toured the city in pairs (Christoph & Edmund / Kathie & Ken). We went to the water front walked through China town (and had some strange lunch there), and visited the Kensington Market, a rather artsy place with little shops that sell from fresh produce to pot paraphernalia. We stopped by some Chinese markets and looked at their fresh fish (some of which we could not recognize...). We met a young mother of two on a Stevens bicycle (Maja) who is from Hamburg and lives here in Toronto with her family for about 5 years now. Ken and Kathie went up CN tower and walked around having middle eastern lunch in Kensington. After that some bicycle maintenance...

Tomorrow we are having a light day going to Burlington (Hamilton) where we have a campsite secured.

The weather is still perfect - around 80 or so degrees (25 - 30 deg. C).

Day 5 - Port Hope to Toronto - 77 miles today - almost 400 so far

Just lost everything I typed - will try again tomorrow with Pictures - another perfect day !!!

Day 4 Picton to Port Hope, Ontario

After a night camping near Sandbanks Provincial Park, we got an early start and stopped after 15 miles for a great breakfast in Wellington. Our ride to Port Hope was scenic, but uneventful- except for a brief stop just 5 miles from our hosts to wait out a downpour.

We have enjoyed an incredible evening around the fire with Bart and Judith in Port Hope. The picture shows us enjoying some chat after dinner. Our first order of business upon arrival was for a swim in Lake Ontario- right in their backyard! Refreshing after a 75 mile day on the bike! Dinner, beverages and ice cream around the fire pit capped a good day.
Tomorrow we set out for Toronto…..another 70+ mile day, but by now we are used to it. So far we have covered about 320 miles in the last four days.

Day 3 - Cape Vincent to Picton...67 miles...245 total so far

Another great riding day today - lots of sun...very few hills...a little wind in our faces. Shown is the campsite we left this morning in Cape Vincent.

Christoph, Ken and Edmund are enjoying the ferry ride from Cape Vincent to Wolfe Island.

So far no flats (are you happy, Carlo ?). We ended up at a nice camp site near Sandbanks Provincial Park (Martin's River Resort). They have a beautiful beach within walking distance. For dinner we had burgers - just no better choices near the camp site. I will update again tomorrow (son Christoph: haver a safe trip back from Venezuela tomorrow - I will be thinking of you) - Cheers...

Day 2 - Oswego to Cape Vincent - not able to post