Mile 2468

Hours in the car today: about 8
Hours in the car tomorrow: about 0!!!

We woke up early this morning and after a fight I was able to use our hotel’s “high-speed wireless” internet. Don’t believe everything they advertise. But since we pushed it yesterday, we made it to Niagara Falls by mid-morning. And here it was that Dad and I made the astounding discovery…

…the river flows east here!!!! If this doesn’t seem weird to you then you haven’t been living in the west for long enough. Dad and I had separately made assumptions about which way the falls would be but when we started walking we realized that the river was flowing in the opposite direction. Weird!

After our profound discovery, we enjoyed these views…

Then we (regretfully) got back in the car, hopped on the New York Thru-way, and drove. We made it to Vermont for dinner. I felt like we were driving through an L.L. Bean catalog (which I guess is a real possibility). Half a billion white churches, picket fences, and scenic views later we crossed into New Hampshire, our last state. Man, it is good to think that we won’t drive 600 miles tomorrow!

And now we are at the hotel; it looks like an old boarding dorm with poster beds, carved wood panels, etc.

Goodnight.