** Video is coming but probably not till I get to Lake Tahoe**
Time on the road : 9:00 am - 12:00 am (15 hours)
Miles Driven : about 500 miles
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Driving from Plum Island MA through Boston was great. Then took I-90 (I= Interstate & if the number is even then the highway goes East/West across the country, if its odd it runs North/South)
MA
I-90 (AKA-Mass Pike) Goes from Boston all the way west across MA (which can get boring at times & there are a lot of State Troopers) and before you get out of MA you cross through the "Berkshires", which is a region blanketed with small mountains, rolling terrain (lots of hills), and is well noted as the region that makes the paper that U.S. Dollars is printed on ( North Adams, MA)
** I will uplaod video but editing the film is taking for ever.**
NY
I-90 ( AKA- NY Thruway) goes from the MA border all the way across NY till it hits the corner of PA. At times the drive was beautiful. Farm land all over the place even on steep hills. When I hit the Mohawk River Valley the highway was right along side the river for miles and it was gorgeous.
** Unfortunately this is conveniently the same time my Go Pro Camera decided it didn't want to work. I tried stopping and fixing it by pulling the battery, pulling the memory card, but couldn't re-format (erase everything on) the memory card until I could stop and spend a couple hours getting all the video I had shot off of it** Eventually I did stop at a Rest area and set up to download all the video and called Go Pro to help me re-format my memory disk (& to complain!!!) .... It takes a long time to download High Definition video so about 1 1/2 hours was spent downloading the video to my laptop and the other 45 minutes was spent dealing with Go Pro on the phone ( I was not a happy camper - but very respectful :)**
2 1/2 hours later I was back on the road driving the last 200 plus miles to Niagara Falls and it was starting to get dark. I was warned about dawn (sunrise) and dusk (sunset) to be very careful if I am driving at these times because that is when you are most likely to encounter animals on the move (either finding food or getting back to "home". Well.... they were right in less than a 30 minute span I saw over 10 deer within 40 feet of the highway at dusk.. This was a unnerving (sketchy) feeling. Some were within 10 feet of the road. After riding in the dark for hours I finally hit Buffalo area which is where I got on I-290 (I=Interstate and since it is a 3 digit number you look at the last 2, which =90 so that tells you that it connects to I-90 and the first digit if it is and EVEN # tells you it connects to I-90 in more than one spot. If the first digit is odd it only connects to I-90 once).
Then I-190 and finally hit the Canadian Border and waited at the border checkpoint. Once I was cleared to cross into Canada it started pouring.. After being thouroughly soaked I made it to my hotel. I dried out my clothes and called it a night.
Niagara Falls, Ontario Canada
In the morning I walked around and took tons of pictures and video taped my voyage on a boat, called the "Maid of the Mist" that goes nearly into the falls. I don't have time to edit video and the full length videos are way to big for the blog so here are some pictures I took for now.
** Unfortunately this is conveniently the same time my Go Pro Camera decided it didn't want to work. I tried stopping and fixing it by pulling the battery, pulling the memory card, but couldn't re-format (erase everything on) the memory card until I could stop and spend a couple hours getting all the video I had shot off of it** Eventually I did stop at a Rest area and set up to download all the video and called Go Pro to help me re-format my memory disk (& to complain!!!) .... It takes a long time to download High Definition video so about 1 1/2 hours was spent downloading the video to my laptop and the other 45 minutes was spent dealing with Go Pro on the phone ( I was not a happy camper - but very respectful :)**2 1/2 hours later I was back on the road driving the last 200 plus miles to Niagara Falls and it was starting to get dark. I was warned about dawn (sunrise) and dusk (sunset) to be very careful if I am driving at these times because that is when you are most likely to encounter animals on the move (either finding food or getting back to "home". Well.... they were right in less than a 30 minute span I saw over 10 deer within 40 feet of the highway at dusk.. This was a unnerving (sketchy) feeling. Some were within 10 feet of the road. After riding in the dark for hours I finally hit Buffalo area which is where I got on I-290 (I=Interstate and since it is a 3 digit number you look at the last 2, which =90 so that tells you that it connects to I-90 and the first digit if it is and EVEN # tells you it connects to I-90 in more than one spot. If the first digit is odd it only connects to I-90 once).
Then I-190 and finally hit the Canadian Border and waited at the border checkpoint. Once I was cleared to cross into Canada it started pouring.. After being thouroughly soaked I made it to my hotel. I dried out my clothes and called it a night.
Niagara Falls, Ontario Canada
In the morning I walked around and took tons of pictures and video taped my voyage on a boat, called the "Maid of the Mist" that goes nearly into the falls. I don't have time to edit video and the full length videos are way to big for the blog so here are some pictures I took for now.
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| There are two falls and together they are known as "Niagara Falls". One (to the right) is called Horsehoe Falls and one (to the left) is called American Falls because it is located completely in the U.S. |
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| American Falls (U.S. is in the background) |
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| Horseshoe Falls |
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| Leaving Niagara Falls on the Canadian side of the Lake on the Niagara River Corridor Parkway. A beautiful road to drive on. |
