June 9, Monday
Leaving Pennsylvania, the I-90 turns into the New York State Thruway, a toll road, about 40 miles east of our last overnight stop. Occasionally we are treated to a view of Lake Erie off to the left. An EZ-Pass transponder, ordered well in advance, let us just cruise through tollbooths. The Thruway has few exits, set tens of miles apart, and a good surface, so we made excellent time. In the middle of this ~60 mile segment, there was a service area with food service and a gas station right on the highway (kind of a super rest area with commercial services). We remember similar embedded service areas from our childhood trips around New England, but there’s no equivalent in the West.
After passing through central Buffalo, we turned north along the Niagara Falls. I exited the freeway too soon onto a road that ran along the shore then turned into the heart of the City of Niagara Falls. After negotiating some tricky traffic, we followed Robert Moses Parkway north to Fort Niagara then east to Four Mile Creek State Park campground. The campground has the most spacious sites we’ve ever seen and a nice view of Lake Ontario. This evening, some thunderheads formed over the lake and we even had a light shower. Does this mean that the heat wave is breaking? We sure hope so.
Tomorrow and Wednesday we’ll sightsee in the area, crossing into Canada also to see their side of the Falls. Steve has been reading the classic Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and was fascinated by passages describing Holmes’s “death” at Reichenbach (sp?) Falls. His colleague, Ted, was stationed at Niagara Falls during the Korean War, and we’re looking forward to seeing some of the sights he’s described.
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