Monday, May 11, 2009

Leaving Toronto - Off To Port Hope

We've just finished our last breakfast at Holiday Inn Express - a 10-storey new hotel in Markham, just north of Toronto. Time to load the SUV again and head east to Port Hope, on the north side of Lake Ontario, about two hours drive if we take it easy. We have more time than sense today, so we'll stop a couple of places on the way. 

When we have computer availability, we will continue to post as many days as possible and hope we are giving you a little taste of it all.

I have lots of thoughts about my hometown - Hog Town, Muddy York, Meeting Place, City of Churches, as it used to be known. All that is long ago and not even known by the immigrants who have flocked here from truly all around the world!

Toronto is HUGE! People of every nationality live here and it is truly a non-stop city. Can't say I would want to live here now without a driver and a staff and well, a really big house on a really big lot with lots of cash to maintain it!

No disputing that Toronto is busy and expensive! Here in Markham - actually a little north of the GTA boundary, people have been more friendly than I expected and the hotel is so new with every amenity, fresh lines and a very friendly staff. 

Well, here we go . . . off to where life is a little slower and the driving a little less reckless. We still have friends in Port Hope who helped me so much when I really needed a helping hand. These are wonderful people with special values and kind ways.

The majority of the gals at my 50th Reunion still live in this area. A couple of them live out in Western Canada and one other came up from United States - San Francisco, actually. 

From Port Hope, we will backtrack a little to enter United States in the Niagara Falls/Buffalo area and start driving toward Hubby's sister's in the Cleveland, Ohio area. Before that, we will celebrate my birthday in Erie, PA. (We have often been on the road on my birthday!) 

We'll send two days visiting Louise at The Renaissance and then head back - more slowly than we came up - back to Texas and home.

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