16th
June 2016
Driving round the
shore of Lake Ontario
Today was not one
of the most exciting drives of the trip !
Cranberry Lakes up in the Adirondacks is beautiful, but from there down
to Niagara was basically a day spent driving through suburbia and small towns
along the southern coast of Lake Ontario.
I saw an AT&T
shop beside the highway in Oswego and stopped to see if they could set me up
with a payg US SIM card for my phone (my Canadian one won’t work in the US).
Their plan is way better than the Canadian one, and for a flat rate I have talk
and text in the USA for 30 days.
With that sorted,
it was on down round the shores of Lake Ontario. I found it interesting to see a sign in a
layby where I stopped for lunch that Joseph Bonaparte, Napoleon’s brother, came
to NY State in 1815 after the downfall of his brother. All fitting in with the Bernard Cornwall
books I am reading at the moment about the Napoleonic war in Spain in 1812, in
which Joseph is mentioned.
There was really
nothing to take photos of, nor much to comment on during the day, so, perhaps
surprisingly, I won’t ! I found several
State Parks near Niagara but they were all “day use only”, so I ended up in a
KOA campground as I wanted to be reasonably close to Niagara for the
morning.
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