July 10 - Mattawa to Alburgh

Samuel De Champlain Provincial Park near Mattawa, Ontario, to Alburgh, Vermont

Another driving day. It was hot. It was humid. Had the Odyssey's A/C on the whole day. Didn't stop for even one photograph. Not one. How lame is that?

Since I've not got a picture to share with you, I'll share a map of the route. I'll do that in two ways:
First, click on this blue text for a map of the route.
Second, I'll embed a bit HTML code that Google claims will display the same map of the route. Here goes...

View Mattawa to Alburgh in a larger map

Well, that wasn't exactly what I expected. But, if you click and drag on the inset map so that New York state and eastern Ontario show up, you'll see a couple blue balloons with with a squiggly line between. That's the route we took on this day.

The day's drive was pretty uneventful. The section of Canada Route 417 through Ottawa is a major multi-lane highway that goes pretty close to the heart of Ottawa. Lots of traffic. Lots of merging and weaving. Only a couple hairy moments.

We crossed into the US at Corwall. The bridge across the river there is privately owned! Hence, a toll. The bridge is also one of the strangest bridges I have ever driven on. And not strange in a good way. I have been able to isolate the memory of that bridge so far back in the closets of my memory that I am now unable to describe it to you. You should go check that bridge out for yourself. Or, maybe not....

We decided to keep to the roads in the US that were as close to Canada as we could get. (Our thinking: Canada is north. North is cooler. Right?) We enjoyed the quaint towns in New York along the border. Crossing the very northern tip of New York state, we skirted the top of Lake Champlain and entered Vermont.

Our day ended at the Alburgh RV Resort, near Alburgh, VT, on the shore of Lake Champlain. The resort was a pretty nice resort, if you're into that sort of thing. Most of the units there, and there are a lot of them, are set permanently in place. To our surprise, most everyone there was speaking French. It seems that this resort, which is just 55 miles from Montreal, caters to the Quebec crowd.

Once again, Nancy beat Fred at 3-13. There seems to be a pattern developing here.