Heading out

We left for Niagara Falls at 1:30 a.m. It's going to be about 425 miles and there is supposed to be heavy rainfall so I didn't want to get too delayed, so we left earlier than expected.

I hoped the AAA maps were accurate and we started our trip.

It worked out ok enough until I was supposed to get onto Route 17. There's a 17, 17A, 17M, 17N....there is quite a few 17's. I ended up taking the rural streets and got onto the correct 17.

That's when we hit the rain....and rain and rain.

It seemed like forever especially since we were going uphill and my 4 cylinder car doesn't handle uphill very well, especially in heavy rain. I couldn't see more than 10 feet in front of me.

After a while of driving I hit I80 and things started looking up.

The sun started rising at about 5:00 a.m. I drove for another 3 hours and we stopped for breakfast. We found a McDonalds in Newburgh I think it was called.

My wife can always find a Micky Dee's. We got back on the road determined to finish this quickly. At about 11:00 a.m. my son started getting cranky midway through I90. We were only about 100 miles away from Ontario and I wanted to keep moving but we had to stop so my son could stretch his legs and be happy again.

Once he felt better we got onto I90 and kept moving. From I90 we hit I690, moved onto I290 and then onto I190. That put us onto the final leg to the Rainbow Bridge leading to Canada.

After 4 or 5 questions we were allowed into Canada and our hotel wasn't too far off the bridge. I finally pulled into our hotel at 12:30 p.m.

A total of 11 hours on the road. Taking into account the little out of the way I got on Route 17 that totalled to about 450 miles. So that tallies to about 41 miles per hour we travelled.

Hm...maybe a little too leisurely.