Road Trip #2

This is the Ste.lco Plant in Hamilton from the Burlington Bridge...heading towards Niagara Falls.


Other than showing our Drivers Licenses and popping the trunk for a thorough search, we were accross in a minute.





Downtown Buffalo has some beautiful old architecture from the 1920's and 1930's. Some of the buildings are quite impressive.
However, downtown Buffalo remains a ghost town, even on a long weekend Saturday afternoon.
It's sad to see so many beautiful old buildings burnt out and abandoned.
It's been a long time since The Mister and I have been to Buffalo.
Certain areas seem more run down than we remember.

We drove through Niagara Falls and came accross the Queenston/Lewiston Bridge, and I didn't take any pictures of the Falls because; let's face it, I've got too many already.
I also didn't take any pictures of Lundy's Lane.
It gets more Funland/Freakshow/Ridiculous looking every time we visit.
Gigantic neon signs and gorillas and monsters hanging onto the main road, and then the circus abruptly stops about 6 blocks up and everything becomes normal again.


The end.
No more road trips for a little while

:(

Road Trip #1

Heading out on the road to who knows where.
The Mister driving west.


We passed through Shakespeare, Ontario.
It's right next to Stratford, Ontario...the snotty, Yuppie, Shakespeare Festival town.
We saw no ethnics...I think that perhaps the only black person in Stratford was The Mister and Othello...but I think Othello only comes every couple of years, and even then only between May and September.


I suspect that when the urban types took over Stratford, the regular folk high tailed it over to Shakespeare. Where they wouldn't have to buy organic, jog, and could just have regular Tim Hortons coffee at $1 for a medium regular, instead of having to buy burnt tasting grandes or talls at inflated prices ...I'm making this shit up. I have no idea.
But Shakespeare appears to be: i-pod jogger-less, Starbuck-less, health food store-less, Bistro and Patisserie-less and hoity-toity restaurant-less.


In Shakespeare we visited The Pork Shoppe...

With all things pig...and a little lamb too.

In Shakespeare, the streets are named for Shakespearian characters.


On the way back, we stopped in Waterloo, Ontario at a lovely Nursery



We ran accross something called a "money tree" and laughed because it looked like Marijuana, and we wondered if that's how it got it's moniker.


We met Sequoia the Macaw who "Talks but is very shy" and has been living at the nursery since 1974. She was grooming herself the whole time we were standing in front of her, but every time I said her name, she would look up.

Stay tuned for Road Trip #2

I hate Hummers.
But this one made me laugh.
The driver had bling up the ying, with a cell phone glued to his ear.
Which would explain why he was going slower than the rest of traffic, and twice inched into my lane before I passed him.
He finally cut off the driver behind me when he suddenly decided he would actually need that lane.
Are all Hummer drivers idiots?
Or just the ones that I've driven behind?

Cynical-C Goes to Vegas