Buffalo. :( Once again we were woken up by a policeman knocking on Bertha's window at 8.30am to 'check if we are OK.' Which we were until he rudely woke us up. It is however very considerate of the US tax payer to fund our own personal alarm clock. We wondered whether he provided the same service to the 4 or 5 other travellers parked there or the Jesus bus which was covered from tip to tail in slogans. The police car then proceeded to wait until we left so we an...

Niagara Falls After talking to the helpful ladies at the customer service desk, who told us where we could park at Niagara Falls for free, thus avoiding the extortionate tourist parking fees, we set off! We successfully navigated the interesting one way system and “rotaries” to park up about 1/3 of a miles from the American side of the falls. On this side you can see the river leading up to the falls with the rapids and how the speed of the river builds up, ...

Police Harassment!! After being told the night before to stay over at Walmarts, 9am comes round and a policeman decides to wake us up 'to see if we're ok'!! This was our 2nd run in with the law in less than 8 hours, the rest of the day we proceeded to be followed 4 times and pulled over once more for speeding! Allegedly we had been caught doing 53 in a 35 and yet we had just that minute pulled out of a carpark...! Each time it was Andy driving and I remember fro...

Leaving Chicago After another late night it was a bit of a struggle getting up but we were up and about by midday and met up with Ali and Michael for lunch. En route we went to the post office to finally post the cards we'd been carrying round for the past week, they dont really have post boxes over here and no where else sells stamps!! After lunch we all went to costco where a 53” teddy bear for $30 caught mine and Ali's eyes and we decided it would be perfec...

Willie Torres and the 911 Mambo Orchestra. We headed into the city around midday to see the Chicago Air and Water Show, after parking Near Grant Park we promptly managed to walk in the wrong direction as there are no signs to Chicago's second biggest annual event, so we only arrived for the last 1 ½ hours of the show, we did however have a beautiful walk through the park and alongside lake Michigan which is the same size as the North Sea although Mae discovered...