Another Road Side Attraction

What a week, we've been in Canada for the past week.  We crossroad over Lake Erie from Marine City MI on a small car ferry to Sombre Ontario.  Sombra is a sleepy tiny town with  1 restaurant, a very small variety store and a great seasonal RV park.  We were kind of the outsiders at the campground there with our little tent amongst the RVs with their porches, barbecue grills and lights, but as in many campgrounds the host found us fascinating or pitiful and  gave us special treatment.  We were provided with lawn chairs for the night and given an RV sight much closer to the bathrooms than a regular tent site.  At another campground the manager suggested we cmp by the pavilion with an awesome view of  Lake Erie, we could use the pavilion lights if we needed to read and camp under it if it started to rain, the regular sites were not nearly as grand!  One day we did have a shocker after biking about 60 miles we got to the campground to find it was closing that day and we were unable to camp there, to our good fortune we we only had to back track about 5 easy miles.  Today was our final day in Canada we ended with a ride through Niagra Falls, it was quite stunning coming from the south on the Canadian side and then Canada has beautiful gardens, preserves, butterflie conservatory and a number of trams and sight seeing boats, we were entertained for about 20 miles of riding, it was also very multicultural with all of the visitors.  We are ending our day camping behind the Widewater drive in restaurant in Lockport NY along the Erie Canal.  When "Marty" bought the place 5 years ago the prevvious owner offered free camping to cyclist, so Marty has contined the tradition.  To support our great host we had a giant order of fries when we got here, a fast food supper with some ice cream to top it off, not our usual healthy dinner, but we wanted to appreciate a great act of kindness.