Thursday, May 22: Niagara Falls Canada

On the Way to Niagara

Good day. This is my last full day before I leave tomorrow night. I got use of Kerry's car so

Getting Closer

I decided I would drive to the Niagara Falls and then walk over the pedestrian Rainbow Bridge. I got through since I had those papers. I even got the Canadian guy to stamp  my passport for me YAY!!

Walking to Canada

Going to Immigration AGAIN

So after coming back to United States, I decided I'd head towards my favorite part of Buffalo which is the Allentown

Canadian Falls Close Up

District and Elmwood Avenue. It dawned on me that I should try to find a place to get her car's oil changed nearby. The weather has been very odd today. It was cool then it warmed up and sunny and then it's cool again

Nice Landscaping

w/ clouds. Spoke to Kerry and I'm to pick her up somewhere around 4 o'clock. That's assuming they are done done

American Fall viewed from Canada

with the oil within the next 2 1/2 hours. I decided to eat at Café 59. I'm having penne with

Canadian Falls

 prosciutto mushrooms and peas in a light marsala broth. Sounds delicious doesn't it?!?!

The Falls in Black and White

Well I was fed and I had to go through 90 pictures and delete the ones I didn't like and try to improve the ones that I. I'm now feeling like I could use a nap. It is 1:53 PM still have

American to the Left & Canadian on the Right

not heard from the mechanic the oil has been changed on Kerry's car. I'm hoping to know unnecessary expenses and/or confusion . Made it very clear that's all I wanted

Oil Change Done Here

 with the car was to have it changed for oil. I was driving through the Allentown section of Buffalo when I asked Siri the closest place to get an oil change. and Siri led me to the auto place pictured above.

I am now killing time waiting for the auto place to call back and editing this blog to make it look more presentable. At this time, the photos are too numerious for the blog. Not

sure why it is so but I may have to remove all the photos and then put them back in as small photos.
it is now 2:46 PM I am sitting at the corner of Franklin Alan streets at Café 59. I think I'm going to get ready to go soon and walk towards the auto place so hopefully they'll be done by time I wobble

Lunch

on down there.

I am now reading about Tuesday nights "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart." In this show he tore into Philly as only Jon Stewart can. He busted on the cheese steak, the Rocky Statue being at the Art Museum etc.  Well, last night her apologized to the Phillie Phanatic by comparing him to the NY Mets mascot Mr. Met. Mr Met has a HUGE baseball head. He

Allentown Area of Buffalo. My Favorate

did not take back the other comments about Philly but then again who cares.  Well it's now 3:15 and time to walk to the auto place to find out what's going on. Ohh..it looks like rain out and I did not bring my umbrella

Getting Oil Changed

. I stepped out of the restaurant and the temperature must've dropped 10°. According to my Apple app it is 63° here right now as of 3:28 PM.

Place I got the Oil Changed

I will see if the car is ready to be driven out to Kerry's workplace. Well I got there and came back to her place and crash for 20 minutes

and then I'm here at the McKinley mall waiting for my iced coffee sensor making a fresh brew and Bobby picking up Molly. I met you have to

Kerry at Work

get his since  I'm running on fumes with Kerry's  car.  have dinner at Kerry's house. It looks like we have corn the cob & potatoes.  

Molly & Kerry

Dinner was fun we hung out I have a nice time. And it was time to drop Molly off at her house and some orange juice at the local convenience store. You also left about OkCupid. It's good to have friends in new cities!

Friday, May 16: I Enter Canada

Kerry's Kitchen w/Cool Coffee Pot

It's 1115 it is a cloudy misty rainy day in and Buffalo I got up around six to be with my friend and her boyfriend.  I then went back to sleep and kept on sleeping until now. It is now

Ken's Playstation

11:16 AM Kerry is  iprepping old-fashioned Apple Chrisp. She is cutting up apples like a

Early Morning Kerry and Ken

pro. We should have a  cable show and now she wants us to know that she hates slicing apples. I wish there was a Ronco product  that would ease her drudgery. My next thing is to take a quick shower and then do some errands for

Kerry and for myself and then then see how I feel if I'm going to go to O Canada today or blow it off.

It's now 1:03 PM I finally got dressed showered and made myself useful for helping carry a little

Buddha the Cat

bit. Where getting ready to go to the mommy Museum in about an hour. Jamie just came up and I think what I'll do is I'll check the car rental thing possibly. Yes nothing like thinking

High of 59 and Low of 39 Here

in the last minute. As you can see it's pretty cloudy out. I think it's cloudy and rainy all across the eastern part of the United States today

Jamie

as of 1:09 PM. It should be an interesting day for my 2nd full day of vacation. 

Well I got the rental car and drove along with Kerry Jamie can to the mommy of mommies of the

Kerry and Ken

world exhibit. It was spunky is crap not my thing but it was interesting. The first thing we saw when we first entered the museum was a skeliton of a Mastodon There was some funky stuff at the museum such as real shrunken heads Egyptian mummies mommies from European castles. Bit anxious to find out if I can get through to Canada

My Rental

which will be very shortly. Is now 358 I think leaving at four will be good all arrive at the first hotel by 8.   This is assuming that the Canadian authorities will let me cross the border.

The Mummy Exhibition

If they do not have to go to plan BCD and go somewhere else in the United States. Will also mean that that hotel money goes down the drain and I

All Roads Lead to Canada

disappoint my legion of blog followers.

Well Seri does not work but I GOT PAST THE BORDER!!

Inspecting the Papers

I am getting gas in Brampton Ontario and got to fly now. It's 7pm.

Iamb and Primrose Ontario it's one of the few places with Wi-Fi I had to pull over and make a plan with AT&T

or I would've been sucked with massive data charges a $15 a megabyte. It's 8 o'clock I need to eat and I'm right at the corner where I'm going to be going to Owen Sound.

First Pit 

I'm now two hours from there. I then have a 4 hr Drive to Manitoulin Island. I am at a subway and I'm going to get an avocado with my sandwich the offer that here. The drive

A Beautiful Drove

up Ontario turn was one of the most beautiful ever seen the sun was setting after 9 PM tonight. I use Subway at the mean Wi-Fi at the subway and had a sandwich and now

They are Just Huge!

I'm at Tim Horton's at 10:25 to be a long night. I begged the hotel here in Owen Sound I'm going to  Tobermory where I did

I Have NEVER Seen this Color Before

reserve a ferry at 8:15 I have to be there at 7:50 I'm signing off from Tim Horton's a very hospitable place in Owen Sound. Pretty thriving little town. Yes Tim Hortons did me right good coffee

Tim Did Me Right

good food and some energy. It wasn't that much of the trip because the closest place to the ferry is almost 70 km away. The room is cute small and very spartan. It has Wi-Fi and that

is God's gift to earth out here. I'm going to now neaten up the blog maybe add more pictures of him in that kind of thing it's pretty chilly but  it's nice.This motel is more like a cottage. It has NO heat. I just looked on my phone it is 36° here right now as of 12:15 AM. Here is my drive I make to the ferry. It should be a cool scenic drive along Canadian country.

Well its got WIFI and this is a very good thing, The Ferry leaves at 8:30am tomorrow but I have to be there by 7:30 and I am 1hr 20 minutes from Tobermory Ontario. I made this motel and ferry reservation at the

last minute. This should be a real trip. I will hopefully find some decent coffee. So to summarize, I drove most of the way towards Manitoulin Island. I have a bout 70 miles to go tomorrow to catch the Ferry. I leaned that I should have called AT&T first when I

knew I was going to Canada. They would have killed me with the roaming charges. I was told by someone at the program that he turns off his phone while he is up this way. He has gone before. It would be cool to see folks that I know.

April 24: Progress & Pain Again

Outside My Kitchen

Hey Kids!! It's Thursday and time to think....about the weekend...perhaps. Looks like another nice cool Spring day. First the news. A news reader is getting engaged. Yup, real news for these times. I am sure in a a month

In a Weird Mood Before Work

the Philly Inquirer will report she is married. Mark my words, next year they will congratulate her and her hubby having a baby. Yup. real news. As the Rolling Stones sang: " Like a newborn baby, it just happens every day"

On Walnut Street

Well, the day begins. Once again this week meeting I get all inside up in my head. I just want to keep walking away. It's now 5:14 PM I just left work. It's warmed up a bit

58th Near Walnut

but it's  still is pretty cool. The sun is blazing which is really nice. 

I feel little better than I did this morning but I'm not a but I notice is sort of my braining Goddard I'm spiring together kind of make me feel kind the

Ludlow Street Near Work

once I'm not running around busy at work.

My friend has two painting classes and I plan to go to pats after I go to set group. I'm supposed to

PM Commute on the 21

meet Larry for coffee but I probably won't get there till after 530. Maybe I'll get there 535 depending how well I catch the EL.

Well I had my coffee and this evening I was

15th and Walnut at 5:40pm

 made aware that I have made progress over the last year and a half. Despite my negative thoughts. It's good to be reminded since I tend to forget.

I Spilled Coffee at Starbucks

Well I got home after and went shopping at the supermarket to get ice cream for Dean and OJ for me. I ended up getting seltzer and yogurt as well. I then  talked on the phone for 45 minutes and walked back to my place to drop off the food. I continued to talk and went to pats house to mellow out and eat!

Nice Weather

He's getting a new chrome book made by  Samsung. He's very excited about it I definitely looking forward

Supremo at 43rd and Walnut

to that so right now reboot his computer because he just installed malware protection and removed some malware from his old computer. I then went home and watched a little Jon Stewart and went to bed. I again am going to bed too late for a Friday which is going to be VERY busy at work and AFTER work.

I meet Mike to meet up with Rob at the Hospital, next a 7pm meeting then over to Larry's to help lift crates of Summer clothes. For now I have to be thankful for what I have to look

forward to. The week a lump sum payment and a couple weeks from that Buffalo for two weeks.