Tuesday 23 October 2012

Catchn' Up from Around Lake Erie Tour

Well we did er back in August around Lake Erie. It started off on my newer RIDE, a Narley Harley Heritage Softail Classic and was great launching from the Port and a nice RIDE to Jarvis to meet my Budd for breky. After that the rain started..... all the way to Fort Dreary ! Man it was dreary... but we didn't let that dampen our spirits. We swished into Tim's at Fort Dreary for a much needed pit stop. As we RODE into town the rain stopped... A welcome relief. We waited and hour to cross the Border.... NOTE TO SELF: Don't cross border on a Saturday !  The first day we made er to the Fairfield Inn in Erie Pa.    and that was quite the hike.... Glen originally figured we could make it to Cleveland.... ahhhh no !!!  As it was we pulled into Erie about 5 pm or so....... THe rest of the trip was good till we wasted a WHOLE DAY waiting for the frikkken little ferry at Sandusky. It held about 3 BIKES and 6 cars.... you had to sit up top under a tarp or inside the bow of the boat jammed in drinkinn shitty coffee and even worse American danish. It was a good sail to Peelee Island...... then another waste of time waiting for the BIG Ferry to get to Kingsville, Ontario. I t was nice to get back to Ontario but man it was dark...... good thing I had Garmie.... she took us to a farmer's field and said your destination is on your left..... nothinnnn.
NOTE TO SELF:  By a Tom-Tom next time......
Lucky a restaurant was still open, as it was 10 pm, and they were able to direct us to the Days Inn in Leamington..... nice place.... Garmie was almost right.... just a few more kms down the road and there it was.... right in the middle of nowhere ! Strange...... like in a sci fi movie... but it was there.
We got unloaded quickly and I had a swim and a quik sauna..... nice.... to get rid of the road dust....... The most boring time of my RIDING career so far the the day waiting for ferries or waiting on ferries..... man that is boring. Peelee Island is a good place to drink, but I don't drink but Glen sure got addicted to texting while we were waiting for our bar food. Does it take an hour and 10 minutes to make a ceasar salad ?  Yes on Peelee Island it does!
They got nothing else to do.... then to make you wait, cuzz there isn't many options and the other restaurant is MORE money and down the other end of the island. We should have RODE there.... NOTE to self: IF there is another part of an island to explore.... do it !

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