Day 27 - St. Thomas, ON to Niagara Falls ON, 131 miles, 1500' cumulative climbing

Sunrise in Ontario.  What a way to start off a day.  And can you spell tailwind?  Not many words get cyclists going like that one!  I was pretty tired this morning after yesterday's long hours and miles.  Today's bluer sky looked much more welcoming than yesterday's dark cloud formations.  After a typically robust parking lot breakfast of oatmeal and fixings we set out on what ended up being the fastest ride of the trip. Another flat-as-an-ironing-board route helped the speed, but it was mainly the nice westerly wind at our backs that did the trick.

It's too bad that the stretch of Canada we rode through these last two days was so unremarkable.  I know there is much, much more to this neighbor country than what we've seen. But, we are not really on a sightseeing trip in the normal sense of the word, since there is very little time to stop and do much more than snap a photo to be looked at later. This might explain why some of the days have seemed to run together. My hope is that once the journey is complete and we all have time to digest what's transpired that some order might come from the cluttered file cabinet in my head!  For now it's still important to "keep your eye on the prize" as my friend Donald used to say.
Finish the miles and everything else will fall into place in other words.
We arrived at our hotel in Niagara Falls on the Canadian side (the nicer side by far) early, just before 3:00. This gave me time to do laundry and walk down to view the falls up close. For about five minutes (see above comments about sightseeing). I've seen them before but it's a pretty impressive sight.  Our hotel offered a nice view of the Canadian side.  Frankly it's a hard place to enjoy for more than a short time, as the beauty of the falls is offset by the garishness of everything else - hotels, casinos, gift shops, people and noise.  

We rode the same way as the wind 

Niagara Falls Canadian Horseshoe