So, we crossed over today into Windsor, Ontario by crossing the Ambassador Bridge. It is privately owned and runs $4 for the crossing. The border agent asked me twice why I was going to Newfoundland. What other answer can you give than I have never been there? Seems like there were many questions overall, and then asked if the motorcycles behind me were with me. Mike and Johnny didn't get all the questions.
We all changed our GPS's over to metric units vs. standard units. It would be tough to find the little 100kmh mark otherwise. Looks like we have traveled much further in kilometers!
The speed limit is posted at 100kmh, but watch out if you go only 100. There are big signs with the fines for speeding. They start at 120kmh, so I figure 110 must be OK. We pass trucks and a few cars, but still get passed a LOT. Still, I don't want to waste money passing it to the province of Ontario.
Since Johnny had never been to Niagara Falls, we made a "short" detour down to see the falls. It was such a different experience this time. I wasn't wearing a down parka for one! There was no ice anywhere on the street or the falls. On the way back from the falls to get going back on our route, we went through some hellacious traffic. Toronto might be a beautiful place, but not from the highway. I will say they have a good system of express lanes and collector lanes. It works well ... unless there is a burned out car in the express lanes and they shut them down totally. Not sure how long we inched our way through, but eventually we made it back. Since we are travelling parallel to Lake Ontario, we were stuck in pretty high traffic until at least 6:30.
Tomorrow we head into Quebec tomorrow and this will knock out one more province that I will have visited on a motorcycle. But, that is a post for later.
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