Moving West

We enjoyed a dog show Saturday morning sponsored by the Ontario Shores Kennel Club. They are affiliated with the UKC, a parallel organization to AKC. I made the mistake of asking a participant if UKC meant "Unknown Kennel Club". Wrong. It means Unified Kennel Club, thank you very much.

And this young lady and her pup won Best of Show!
Congratulations!















After the Dog Show, we took our bikes north to the Erie Canal and rode another section of the Canalway Trail.

Sunday morning we left Cheerful Valley Campground, with it's huge lawns, Flint Creek for tubing and fishing, Dog Shows, and Saturday activities, and headed West on I 90, the Thomas Dewey Thruway. Yep, it's another toll road, but the choices were limited. The road was, for the most part, in good repair, and the traffic was light.

Our destination was Niagara Falls, New York, about 109 miles west and we arrived at about 3 in the afternoon. Our park of choice is Niagara Falls Campground and Lodging. They offer two rooms for rent and have 64 rv/tent sites, most of which have full 50 amp hookups. We are in site 37, a nice long and satellite friendly site that is, at most, 12 feet wide. Oops. The staff/owner is very nice and the location is good, so we'll make do with the narrow site for awhile. We noticed that the taste of the water in New York state was somewhat less than we generally hope for. There seems to be a lot of Sulphur and minerals in it, and so it tastes awful to us. The Cheerful Valley water supply is a well, so no treatment was evident. Our first clue was when the cream in the morning coffee curdled! The water here in Niagara Falls seems to be better, albeit very hard.

We're looking forward to being tourists for the next few days, and will report back about what we've seen!