Today was another travel day. We left the hotel in Edmundston (just over the border from Madawaska, Maine) at 8:45 AM and 64 degrees and headed west toward the Saint Lawrence Seaway. We had eight hours of traveling to do to make it to Ottawa in time for Beamer's dinner hour. Fortunately, we gained an hour when we drove back into the eastern time zone, and it served us well, because we hit a couple of pockets of traffic in Montreal and Ottawa. But we landed...

So, I will start with the word of the day…WATER. We saw millions of gallons of water today and what a sight it was. We were on the road at 8:35 and 72 degrees and headed north 20 miles to Niagara Falls. And as the day progressed, it was a perfect weather day…a bright sun, occasionally tempered by wispy high-level clouds and a soft breeze. This was my 4th visit and Steve's 3rd and it never gets old. I went with my parents when I was 10, Steve an...

We started out this morning at 8:45 and 65 degrees. And we had a lot on our plate for today. The plan was to see both Montreal and Ottawa, and we did our best. As is often the case, the GPS got a bit confused in the cities and that cost us some precious time. What did we ever do before we had a GPS? Read signs? Yes, we did, but that is easier if the signs are in English. So we decided to head over to the Biodome, which you can see for miles as you drive into...