Day 1 - Thursday - Jun 11 - Niagara-on-the-Lake / Orillia ON

Day 1 (264 km)
Thursday – 2015-06-11
Niagara-on-the-Lake – Orillia (ON)

Enjoyable ride from Niagara-on-the-Lake to Orillia via the QEW, 407 and 400 highways, traffic was OK but the 400 is a busy 3 or 4 lane race track one needs to keep on alert. There is always the annual stop at Flags Unlimited to purchase a new flag, which will be used starting in the Spring of 2016, the store sells “seconds” at half price and because we have a large 22ft commercial flag pole in front of the house I need a large flag, so the “discount” is a requirement.

Karen is here for the annual Canadian Authors Assoc Annual Meeting and conference and I usually attend some of the evening events as I will tonight and stay over.

The hotel we stay it is the Best Western Mariposa Inn, which is about 1km from the OPP GHQ, this year the hotel is full of OPP Golden Motorcycle Team members who are doing VIP security training (as they did last year) for the Pan Am Games starting in Toronto on July 10^th.

Then on Friday I will continue on to Quebec via Bancroft and Renfrew.  I will meet up with Ben in Renfrew for lunch as we do now each year, we have the timing down so that the longest wait is 15minutes for whoever arrives first.

Weather so far is warm +26 and sunny.