Friday, August 9, 1991
8:15 – 7292 65 degrees Leaving Relax Inn Ingersoll. Rolls and coffee in lobby $53 room $63 with 15% tax. Overcast – 250 miles from home about. Miles of Colorado Blue Spruce at fence line planted too close. Ohio-like farmland. Lots of cornfields.
8:30 London 300,000.
8:45 7322 – Off I401 to St. Thomas pop. 29,000 to see Juimbo Petunia Hanging Baskets.
9:05 – 7332 – Jumbo killed in train wreck here – Lvg 9:15 on Rt 3 west.
10:05 – Views of Lake Erie – Farms extend to Lake – corn, soybeans.
10:07 7375 off on Kent Co. 17 to Pt. Auxpins Park [?]
10:09 – Lake Erie N. Shore – homes along beach
10:15 Park $5.75 for day – $4.75 American. Hike to South Point.
11:20 to beach Temp 71
11:45 back to car 7388
12:00 Heading inland to I401 on Rt 51 & 16
12:15 I401 – 7404 78 degrees
12:40 Tilbury 74e30 Gas & coffee 11.35 litres $6.12
1:14 7446 Sign on I401 Jack Miners Bird Sanctuary at Belle River Road.
1:26 – Windsor pop. 191,000
Took route 3 (3B goes downtown)
1:35 7467 A Relax Inn
1:42 7468 Ambassador Bridge Toll $1.50 US – $1.75 Canadian
1:48 Customs gate
1:50 To South I 75
2:00 On I 75
2:10 Goin N on S bound part of I 75
2:16 Sibley Rd. back on W. Lanes. 7501
2:40 Exit 18 – Pilot Gas $1.125 – 16.5 gal $18.75
3:00 7520 – Ohio Line 70 degrees
3:09 Maumee River
General Schwarzkoff retiring
3:35 Slowdown should be on road to W at Exit 171
Construction end at N. Baltimore
4:10 wendy’s in Findlay
4:35 leaving
224 to 37 to 15 to 23
5:50 7636 Terradise