"All things must end and so the day arrived when we had to bid our dear ones goodbye and promised to see them next year if it were God's will. Faith was to drive her car down to Toronto with us and meet Bill in London the next day as he would be through at the University. We had a long distance call from the Nye's in Toronto, insisting that we stop over with them on the return trip. To this we finally agreed.
Again we packed a picnic lunch ad were on our way Wednesday morning at 8:00 A.M. Faith leading the way and setting the pace, we covered the miles in record time considering traffic conditions and the fact that Faith and I hit every park restroom (latrines or Lats in Scout language) along the 355 miles.
We stopped for a visit to the birthplace of the famous Dionne Quintuplets in Callander, Ontario which is now a museum. It was quite interesting, and many of the photographs and picture were one I have in my collection. Just outside Callandar on Lookout Point we had lunch and as the name implies, we had a wonderful view of the bay and surrounding countryside. After quite a few necessary stops and some hours later we arrived in the busy Metropolis of Toronto. My nose pointed straight to the Nye's, no trouble. A pleasant evening, and to bed as we wanted to be up early and away.
The night before we had asked that no one be up to see us off, we were up at 6:00 slipped in to say goodbye to Faith and were off by 6:35 A.M. By this early departure were able to avoid much of that morning traffic. It was beginning to get heavy by the time we were out of the city.
We had to make one stop for gas but decided to wait until we had crossed the border before stopping for breakfast. A very good reason for this... we had spent the very last of our Canadian money and did not want to have more changed. As usual we had no trouble at customs. A very friendly man at customs chatted a few minutes with us about South Florida. He plans to visit in Key West this winter. They can usually look at us and know we have nothing to declare. An easier exit from Detroit than we have ever made. We could find no place off the freeway that appealed to us so we finally drove into a Howard Johnson's lot for brunch. Here we had again lost an hour and it was only 10:30 but since we had only a few more miles in Michigan we did not set our watches."
Again we packed a picnic lunch ad were on our way Wednesday morning at 8:00 A.M. Faith leading the way and setting the pace, we covered the miles in record time considering traffic conditions and the fact that Faith and I hit every park restroom (latrines or Lats in Scout language) along the 355 miles.
We stopped for a visit to the birthplace of the famous Dionne Quintuplets in Callander, Ontario which is now a museum. It was quite interesting, and many of the photographs and picture were one I have in my collection. Just outside Callandar on Lookout Point we had lunch and as the name implies, we had a wonderful view of the bay and surrounding countryside. After quite a few necessary stops and some hours later we arrived in the busy Metropolis of Toronto. My nose pointed straight to the Nye's, no trouble. A pleasant evening, and to bed as we wanted to be up early and away.
The night before we had asked that no one be up to see us off, we were up at 6:00 slipped in to say goodbye to Faith and were off by 6:35 A.M. By this early departure were able to avoid much of that morning traffic. It was beginning to get heavy by the time we were out of the city.
We had to make one stop for gas but decided to wait until we had crossed the border before stopping for breakfast. A very good reason for this... we had spent the very last of our Canadian money and did not want to have more changed. As usual we had no trouble at customs. A very friendly man at customs chatted a few minutes with us about South Florida. He plans to visit in Key West this winter. They can usually look at us and know we have nothing to declare. An easier exit from Detroit than we have ever made. We could find no place off the freeway that appealed to us so we finally drove into a Howard Johnson's lot for brunch. Here we had again lost an hour and it was only 10:30 but since we had only a few more miles in Michigan we did not set our watches."
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