Home at Last

We got Dave's bike fixed and continued across Ohio up to the south shore of Lake Erie and then Interstate 90 through Pennsylvania and New York. 
We crossed back into Canada at Buffalo, but had to stop at the duty free to pick up 2 litres of white tequila given that Jimmy Buffet's bar in Key West turned us into frozen marguarita drinkers...yeah. 
We hit the QEW and remembered that during a trip down the Blue Ridge when we met an American biker, he said he simply can't go to Toronto as he finds he is terrified on the QEW highway.  At the time we laughed.  But we found the QEW was absolutely insane compared to US interstates.  In the blinding rain, traffic was moving much more quickly, people were passing on all sides of each other, and cutting from lane to lane weaving through traffic way above the speed limit.  Bev and Dave had been used to this, but after a month on US roads, we were spoiled.  Bev nearly got hit by a lane changer, she was forced to change lanes quickly but having the habit of checking her rear view mirrors frequently, she was OK.
With great relief we reached home after a very long biking day.  In the roughly 3 1/2 weeks of this trip we did about 7700 clicks, almost totally on interstates (which you know we don't normally do).  This trip was more about the destinations (Key West and New Orleans) rather than the journey itself. Given all the close calls on this trip we may not be hitting interstates for awhile.  In the future we do want to return to the Blue Ridge and the mountains of West Virginia.

POST SCRIPT:  Bev took her 2007 bike in for it's 88,000 service and found that, in addition to the usual service stuff, it needed the following (OMG - how the hell did she get home??)
-new rear tire
-new front break disc/rotor
-new front break switch to control break lights
-rear wheel bearings
-and the fixing of a rocker leak (upper and lower)
-and new rear wheel bearings.
Geeeez she was wondering what that sound was during the trip!!!