Biking to Canada

My friend, Danielle, and I rode our bikes to Canada today!! I drove to Buffalo with my bike to meet her, and we headed out on our adventure - passports in hand! We rode through Buffalo, on our way to the Peace Bridge, with a map of a route we wanted to ride in Canada.

After about 35 minutes, we came to this sign - we were almost there! We continued on our way and came to an area that looked like customs. We pushed the button and waited to be let into the room and gave the lady our passports. She asks, "Did you acquire anything while you were in Canada?" We look at each other and responded, "Well, we haven't been there yet!" She directed us where to go, and we were on our way. We crossed over the Peace Bridge and followed signs for pedestrians and bikers, which lead us to Lane One of Canadian customs. We biked up to the guy's booth and asked if we were in the right spot - he said no, we had to go into the lane near him with traffic. We proceeded to get behind about 3 cars, then peddled our way up to the window. The guy takes our passports and asks us all sorts of questions. He kind of helped explain where we should go to start our mapped bike route, and we were on our way again. (After our third attempt at getting into Canada, we made it!)

Now, the loop we had planned out was 37 miles - we were feeling ambitious! We were going along looking for College Road to turn onto, when we saw Thompson Ave. We decided to pull out the map to see how far we had to go - we had hardly made a dent! We had a long way to go, so we decided to create our own shorter loop so we could be back before dark.

We eventually followed the sign that said, "USA" with an arrow. We crossed back over the Peace Bridge and headed back to the first place we tried to show our passports. We got our passports out again, and the guy asked, "Where did you come from?" Of course we responded, "Canada!", but he wanted more specifics. He eventually let us back into the US, and we were on our way again. We stopped at Wegmans for subs for dinner, and it was so nice to get off that bike seat! We made it back to Danielle's school, with 5 hours and 30 or so miles of biking behind us! What a day we had - blue skies, nice and sunny, perfect temperature! It was great to spend time chatting and catching up with Danielle, and I'm glad that I can now say I have biked to Canada!