October 3, 2008 – Niagara Falls North KOA, Youngstown, NY

It rained most of the night, but eased up this morning about the time we were hooking up. We were ready to leave and getting all the hook-up jobs done when the slide-out refused to slide in. It has been getting stubborn for several days, needing a little coaxing before sliding in or out, but today no amount of coaxing would work. Most of this past week, Larry would have to wriggle the motor which runs it, a couple of times and it would work, and then it got so that he had to do a turn of the hand crank and then it would start up. Nothing worked today! He had to hand crank it in, then when we got here this afternoon, he hand cranked it out. Fun! At least we’ll be here two nights before we leave. We’re going through Millersburg, IN, next week on our way home, which is where the Forest River factory is, so we have an appointment to have them look at it then.

We drove mostly on New York’s turnpike today, almost 200 miles of it. It was an excellent four lane road. The only problem with that is that we almost had to take out a loan to get off it. We got off a little before Buffalo and it cost us $29.50 when we exited. It had to be paid in cash too. I don’t know what would have happened if we hadn’t had the cash, because they didn’t take credit cards. The only east-west major highways across New York are toll roads. Larry thought they should have issued us a deed.

We arrived here in time to go on in and see the falls.



We parked in a parking lot and walked ALL OVER. As most of you know, Larry is a walker. I told him his long legs don’t have to take near as many steps as my short legs do. The falls were beautiful,

but I understand they are even more so when seen from the Canadian side, so we plan on doing that tomorrow.

We prepared to drive over there by getting a Canada Card from our insurance company, but when we were walking today, Larry pointed out the bridge we’d be crossing tomorrow. It looked like there was quite a bit of traffic on it, so he thought we should just walk across and leave the truck on the U.S. side. He also was sure there would be no place to park over there because he couldn’t see a parking lot from where we were. Sigh! I think I have him talked into driving it tomorrow. I can only hope!

Back to the beautify of the falls, I have read the description of how it all was formed with centuries of erosion and all, but I prefer to think of God creating all this, sitting back and wondering how long it would take for someone to notice. I had the same thoughts at the Grand Canyon. I still prefer my version to the boring scientific version.