sorry im late to this thread jafo but i feel like i ate some of starkers curried cabbage     glad to see you enjoying your trip can't wait to see some pics  and soak those tootsies                                                     

  Doc...that's wrong in so many ways. Funny as hell, thou.  

If you see barrels for rent to see the Falls ..... don't.    

...already booked....from Melbourne weeks ago....

I should have warned you about that. We are pure in Ontario. You can't just go anywhere and buy beer or liqour; you have to go to a government distributor. If you go to a licensed establishment, sometimes known as a bar, they are not allowed to sell you something that you can take home.

i can't image the cost of this trip. you must have saved for years in order to be able to afford such a vacation. you're doing something that most americans and canadians will never do. GO JAFO! i'm quite envious.

great view jafo thanks for posting  i get to see places i have never seen before

Day 18 .....beer 84....still not King.

Maid of the Mist was great....

Tomorrow we drive back to Toronto.... 'the girls' fly on to Washington...while Terry and I fly to Detroit..... just to see the guys at Stardock.

We get there around 4-ish [tho with me driving ....anything could happen]..

Looking forward to it, though....

There'll be more...but it'll be easier when I'm back in Oz...                                                                                             cool will be waiting

Just remember, you're gonna see a lot of clowns driving on the wrong side of the road... best you do the same if ya wanna avoid a prang or 3.

^ Not only lovely, apparantly....but actually a healer. Has anyone noticed the striped ones' typing/spelling? Or maybe Jafo....Jafo'd him!

Day 19 ...got to Detroit....

...got cleverly lost...[my fault - Terry was right [this time]] ...got to SD HQ just on 5 pm.

....I mean...everything was stacked against us....wanker in the care-hire before us with his blue 'Stang...just HAD to check every inch of the car for scrapes. etc...just so when he totalled it in a missed fly-over he wouldn't be stung for ALL the mess...

....got lost...ended up on some backroad...lo and behold...goods-train shunting....life ebbing away...

...finally at the SD turn-in...."It's a Macca's driveway", says Terry....."no it ain't...I know where I am....now....seen the Googlemap"....says I.

OK, so I was late....and it was a mongrel of a trip, one way or another....that AM we were in Niagara....driving to Toronto...to catch the flight....and that arvo we were finally THERE!!!!!

AND....[not to labour the point]....hadn't had a beer....

So far this trip [read backwards for the hilights]....the other 3 had been asking "what's your highlight so far?"....and always it was..."walking out on that glacier" [quite a humbling thing to be on an ice floe that is deeper than the Eiffel Tower is high....

....but now, I have to say....it's "making it to Stardock"....and meeting all [most] of the guys ['guys' being generic].

Saw ALL the important things....Frogboy's Porsche [nice]...Frogboy's bees [subdued]....Frogboy's frogs...[he even caught one [probably staged... ]]...Frogboy's Groundhog [cute]...Frogboy's tortoises...[surprised even him]....and even Frogboy's employees/staff....[geeky, computer nerds, one and all]...

I knew most of the SD crew...after around 10 years doing whatever it is that I do here....but at last!!!....there they were....

There's more to post yet....but did make it to beer 87 by day's end......shall post more shortly...

Washington?! OMG...you'll need 90 more veeery soon! No other way to stomach the place!

You will, however, absolutely love The Smithsonian.