Saturday 3 MayWell today is our last day in the United States of America and this afternoon we take the Amtrak train to Toronto and on Wednesday fly out to the UK. Our 4 months here have been wonderful and we will be sorry to leave but we will take with us the memories of the amazing things we have seen and the different people we have met. We have travelled 9,300 miles on our very reliable 1200RT with no break-downs and no punctures and we were quite sad to se...

Wednesday 30 AprilToday we headed for our "ultimate" destination for the US part of our trip - Niagara Falls - as this is the most northerly point of the Sates we will visit before heading to Canada later this week. Once again, it's hard to believe we are actually seeing a place we have only ever seen on TV before and the power of the water is something you can not appreciate until you actually see and feel it. It is a very cold day, the coldest we ha...

Sunday 27 AprilYesterday we rode from Watkins Glen to Fairport, Near Rochester to find Dennis and Cookie who we had previously met at Lewis Mountain Lodge in the Shenandoah National Park and, with not much effort, we landed right at their doorstep. Dennis and Cookie live in a wonderful house which is nearly 100 years old and was originally where Dennis grew-up. The trees on their street are all in bloom making us all feel very spring-like and generally Fairport ...

Friday 25 AprilToday is a momentous day for the trip as we have reached our final state - NEW YORK state. We head up New York State to Watkins Glen where the people we met at Shenandoah National Park - Dennis and Cookie - suggested we visit. We visit Watkins Glen Gorge which has been carved over millions of years by the river and waterfalls. We stay overnight in Watkins Glen in a motel overlooking one of the lakes known as the Finger Lakes.