Lepod's Blog

From Niagara, we crossed the border into the USA and headed for Helen and Cas’s house in Liberty NY. The border crossing was rather relaxed compared to what it’s like arriving by plane, there were no forms to fill out and the border guy just looked at our passports, asked us what town we were headed to and sent us on our way. The freeway  was actually a toll road for a while, which Homer warned us of and said “I hope you’ve got some money, as I’ve spent all mine on chocolate cigars.” Fortunately we did have some money and we drove for about 2 hours until we reached the town of Geneva, a charming little town on a lake where we stayed the night in a motel 6 as everywhere else was full. Next day, we arrived in Liberty in the middle of the afternoon to be greeted by Helen, Cas and their 6 cats. The cats are great characters, and it was cool to catch up with Helen and see Cas again. We went for a walk around the lake across the road and observed the trees that the local beavers had felled. Unfortunately the beavers have been driven away by rampant capitalists or something so we didn’t see any. We had a great meal of local organic free range lamb sitting outside on the deck. Next day we slept in a fair bit and in the afternoon went for a drive through the charming local towns to sit by the Delaware river and contemplate why it is lawful to shoot frogs with 22 calibre shot (there was a sign by the river listing the things you could and could not do.) On the way back we stopped for an icecream at an icecream stall run by a lady who appeared to much prefer talking to her customers to actually serving icecreams – we were there for about half an hour but the icecreams were excellent – I had a low fat no sugar pecan icecream and it was delicious. That night we sat out on the deck again and were joined by some good friends of Cas and Helens and had a great time. Next day we had some serious driving to do to get back to somewhere near the Montreal airport so it was up early and away by ten. Thanks for having us Helen and Cas! For some reason I didn’t take any pictures from this trip, possibly because I was driving most of the time, but here’s one I took earlier: