Chapter 14

One thing about motels; hardly any have enough plugs. Only the Best Western in Chicago gets full credit on this one. Usually, it looks more like this:

We were glad to have our own leftover bran muffins from Ann Arbor for breakfast this morning. Our motel was less than a mile from the Blue Water Bridge that goes between Port Huron and Sarnia, Ontario, so it was easy to get on the road.

And that had to be our easiest border crossing ever, anywhere. We've been held up longer going to BC for a day trip! Because Nora is staying in Canada, if she weren't a Canadian citizen, she would need a student visa. Both Stefan and Owen had to explain that to the border guard when they crossed. This time (3rd time's the charm!), we had all the documentation ready ... and he really wasn't that interested! We showed him her citizenship paper, and her letter of admission and his reaction was OK, fine. And that was it!

We drove to Kitchener to have lunch with Uncle Ralph and Aunt Gina. We were pretty early, so we drove a little past and got gas at the EnRoute. Here's the look for the phone saying "connected, no internet". What's the point, then, EnRoute?

We went back to follow the directions I had screen shotted, and, because it was Kitchener, none of them really made sense. It took us 3 tries to get on the right road. I don't know why, we've driven across the country, and back, and now across again, and it's Kitchener that we have a hard time with. (We went through Roseville, past lots of corn and nice barns, crawling along behind a cement mixer.) Finally, we made it back to town and to their house. They didn't even harass us too much about taking some extra time to get there.

WE had a delicious lunch, featuring the freshest local corn -- it's so good. We also had local tomatoes, watermelon and cantaloupe. I apologized for telling them 2 years ago, sitting right in their living room "Donald Trump will not be president of the US". Aunt Gina said don't worry, no one could believe it and she stayed up until 3 am the night of the election, hoping things would change.

They also showed us their Africa room, which has a zebra skin and gazelle skin, as well as spears, masks, and statures they collected when they were living in Tanzania in the late 1960s/early 1970s.

Then it was time to be on the road to Toronto

Population now 2,616,001. Nora is very excited about moving here and starting school.

We met Stefan and Chantal for dinner, which was healthy bowls full of vegetables -- perfect after traveling

We went back to their place, Nora set up her Canadian phone, and then back to the motel in Missisauga.