Kingston, Ont.

On one of our bike rides we stopped
at one of 47 locks that go from Lake
Ontario to Ottowa. The locks were built 175 years ago and are still in operation today. They are hand operated so it was interesting to watch the lock master hand crank the lock open and close. This was of interest to us because of our trip to France two years ago. We rented a 40 foot boat and traveled the Canal DuMidi in south France. We did this with my brother Jim and his wife Caren and my sister Mary. We had to go through 67 locks in seven days. That was quite an expierience.

There was a cool front that dropped the temperature so a camp fire was certainly a treat. Andrea was all bundled up. We really enjoyed the 6 days we spent here. Kingston is a great little city. We would recommend that when ever an opportunity presents itself to visit Kingston that you should do so.

We met a very nice couple from Montreal that was also visiting the Kingston area. They stayed at the same camp ground and in fact was in the next camp site. We ended up playing Mexican Train domino's. Andrea won. We all had such a good time. There names are Bob and Nicole. They left yesterday to move on to 1,000 Islands for 1 night. We made arrangements to try to get together when we arrived in Montreal today.

We ended up seeing them on the road this morning and ended up following all the way to our camp site at the KOA in Montreal. They live about 20 miles from the KOA and we will be meeting them later in the week.

One of the things that we love about the RV life style is that you have the opportunity to meet some of the nicest people that otherwise would be just other people leading there everyday life. RV'ing changes all of that. How great is that.

We will be staying here in Montreal for 7 nights. There is so much to see and do here. Tomorrow we will be meeting up with one of the sales reps that I dealt with while working with KSM. I have known Dave Zimet for many years and he was kind enough to offer to show us around if we were to include Montreal in our travels. We look forward to be introduced to the area. We figure between Dave, Bob and Nicole we will pretty much cover at least the high lights. More to come later.

Miles of smiles. Happy trails.