In August we took a wee tour up around Peterborough and dropped in on their famous locks.
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| Top of lock |
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| Bottom of lock |
Also, the St. Marys Cement factory had an open house complete with tours and hot dogs and contests. I won a gift certificate to the bookstore in town by guessing how much cement they make in one day. Most interesting was the experimental building which housed large vats of algae that were being fed by the waste products of the plant. A successful model of making bio fuel.
September 28
We (Chris, Gerry and I) left Ontario on Wednesday and have arrived in St. Augustine FL today, Friday. One must assume that I'm the better driver because I got all the best bits: driving through the pouring rain, up, down and around mountains, and when the highway was a hundred lanes wide, through cities with a million cars on the road. I hear no dissension so it must be true (mind you they're both asleep as I write this). One of the few times I was in the back seat I decided to replace the too-short straps of my sundress, while wearing it. I cut off the useless back ties, cut off the original straps and attached the longer ones. One went on without a hitch but I soon discovered I had stitched the 2nd one around my seatbelt!! I either had to cut it or the seatbelt - I chose the strap. I guess I'm the better driver and the comic relief.
We had one interesting stop - the
New River Gorge, West Virginia. On Bridge Day in October they close the bridge to all traffic and do base jumping. This year they're going to catapult a few people off it - silly creatures.
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| New River Gorge |
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| New River Bridge |
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| Scenery taken by Gerry from the opposite side of the back seat. |
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Paid a short visit to historic St. Augustine - quite an interesting town. Had
dinner out a very long pier where they had little doors you were
supposed to throw food out to the fish but Gerry stuck his hand out and
fed the stupid pigeons.
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| Catfish, and plenty of them. |
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| Seagulls |
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| Bridge over intra-coastal waterway |
Instead of going back to a dull motel room we took a Ghost Tour. Was pretty mediocre until we got to the jail. The actor playing an inmate (dead of course) was really entertaining.
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| "The Bird Cage" |
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| the stocks |
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| Jail bird |
Tomorrow we look at a boat Chris is interested in.
Update: boat was too small, on to Disney World!
