Day 5, Port Colborne to Niagara Falls (ON).  We booked about 43 miles today, a very nice change of pace!  Much of it was on the rest of the paved trail we were on yesterday, and pleasant to ride on.  We had breakfast at Maria's in Bridgeway.  We got a recommendation from the post office when we were getting stamps there.  See picture.  We stopped for a bit at Old Fort Erie, where they do reenactments of things that happened long time ago, probably battles we think.  We were on our way again before long, and really enjoyed going along the Niagara river (downstream, it turns out--I had pictured that all wrong).  The road along the river was great to ride on, with 2 or 3 minutes passing between cars overtaking us (IOW, very light traffic).  We must have had a tailwind since I clocked a number of stretches at 17 or 18 mph (our average is usually just under 12).  The Falls are amazing, as always.  I remember seeing them from the US side a few years ago, but I don't think I've seen them from here.  We enjoyed seeing them and getting sprayed, and took lots of pictures and video.  We ventured a little further North before turning around and finding the "old" downtown section of Niagara Falls.  First stop was a bike shop that took my bike right away, replaced the rear bearings and put it all back together, for $17 CN.  Big relief not to have to worry about that now.  Can't stay home for that.

 

 

 

We had dinner (somehow lunch got skipped) at Taps, a microbrewery, which was quite good.  It started to rain before we finished, but our raingear was ready and, well, we put it on and rode off to find a campsite.  We settled on Scott's Campground, which is very nice and has everything we need, including laundry (sometimes when things get wet it seems like they need to get washed, even though they just got wet, and, well, you know...).   The rain stopped by the time we got to the campground, and we're all set up now, with laundry done and using the wifi.

 

 

 

Tomorrow, we cross back to the US!