Two days from home

Gina has been thinking about her mother. We stayed in a house that looked like her parent's house last night and we stopped at Niagara Falls today. Her mother and father went to Niagara Falls for their honeymoon in 1946. Did you know that 20% of the world's fresh water flows over the falls? Anyway, Chuck and Margaret used to live in Maine until they moved back to their hometown of Canastota, NY four years ago. Canastota is a small town on the Erie Canal, 20 miles east of Syracuse. So I wrote to them a couple weeks ago to ask them if we could drop in. Of course they said yes and that we would have to go to Graziano's restaurant. The food was great and their 1910 vintage house really did look a lot like her parent's.

I am writing from Cleveland. This our first experience staying at a house we found through airbnb. Check it out on the web. We are both tired. This morning we took a bike ride with Chuck along the Erie Canal and he showed us around town on our bikes. Then we drove to Niagara Falls and tooled around there on the bikes. Back in the van for a three hour drive to Cleveland. When we arrived at our house (well, Amanda's house) we pulled our spaceship into her very narrow driveway and promptly hooked one of the bikes riding on the roof  onto a VERY low hanging electric service line running from the street to the neighbor's house. Oy! I had to disentangle the bike from the electric cable...it was an insulated line, but scary nevertheless. Our neighborhood here could be described as up and coming by someone.

We haven't met Amanda yet. We tried to turn on her TV to watch the US Open tennis matches but no luck. Have you tried turning on someone else's TV recently?