Bye Bye Motorbike

After faithfully riding on the back of our Falcon, always starting, and always doing whatever we asked of it, we sold our motorbike today to a new owner.  It was a very reliable, sturdy, and easy to maintain ride and we would highly recommend a KLR 650 to anyone looking for a solid, inexpensive motorbike.

Here are some pictures of our motorbike on the back of its new owners SUV.  He bought the bike, rack, straps and all.  We helped him load it up since we had pretty much perfected getting it on and off that rack.

Niagara Falls

We drove to Toronto and quickly toured the city before heading to Niagara Falls.

The falls are spectacular, and we enjoyed getting cooled off a bit from the spray and mist rising from the powerful waterfalls.

The mist rising from the falls felt wonderful on this hot and humid day.

You can take a boat tour into the mist of the Canadian Falls.

These are the American Falls.

These are the spectacular Horseshoe Canadian Fall.

Afterwards we crossed back into the US.

This is a view of the falls from the Rainbow bridge.

Once across the border we drove to the East Otto State Forest to camp for the night.

Edsel and Eleanor Ford House, Grosse Point, MI

We toured the Edsel and Eleanor Ford House  and grounds this afternoon.  It was an interesting tour.  Here are some pictures we took while we were there.

Lake St. Clair

Pond and swimming pool

Rose Garden

Playhouse

Bird Island

We left the estate and headed for Canada.  Before crossing the border we stopped once more in Detroit to see if we could locate the Henry Ford House in the Boston-Edison Historic District.  We were very fortunate and found it this time along with the home of Berry Gordy, the founder of Motown Records.

This was the house of Henry and Clara Ford.

This was the house of Berry Gordy.

Here we are crossing back into Canada.

We stayed the night at Port Glasgow Marina courtesy of freecampsites.net.