Fall in Ontario

After all the great American roads, we thought we should check out some fall colours on some of Ontario's better motorcycle roads. From Burritts Rapids, we headed west through Smith Falls and Perth to Kaladar on Hwy. 7. From there we headed north on Hwy. 41 and spent the night in Denbigh at the intersection of hwys. 41 and 28. Note the photo of our last evening meal on the road at the Swiss Inn Restaurant....to match our first evening meal back on July 21st in Tobermory. The next morning it was COLD....note the frost on Dave's bike in the picture....you can see his fingernail markings on the back pack of his bike...we put on every sweater, long undies, and took off towards Bancroft (temperature warmed up to 5 degrees by the time we had packed up). The leaves up there have really begun to turn so it was a colourful drive.

We stopped for gas somewhere east of Bancroft on 28 where we noted two major differences from American gas stations: (1) in the US we have to park the bikes in front of the gas pump, went in to give a gas deposit for the gas we wanted to use, then pumped the gas into the 2 bikes and went back in to get the change. In northern Ontario, we pump the gas, go in to pay, then they ask "how much did you use?" and then we tell them and that's what we pay....they never look at the pump, they just take your word for it; and, (2) the rest room plumbing in the States was a heck of lot more modern then what Bev had to use (see photo).