Biking Across The Peace Bridge

Today was a very fun day! I finally biked across the Peace Bridge from Fort Erie. A great friend Steve also went on this exciting bike ride. The weather conditions were near perfect. There is a safe pedesterian path on the Peace Bridge. Very suitable for walking or biking across this historic bridge. That opened for traffic between Fort Erie Ontario, Canada and Buffalo NY, USA in 1927. The new entrance for pedestrians or bike riders to enter the Peace Bridge is now located off of Queen St, across from the traffic circle. The length of the Peace Bridge is 1.77 KM. It was a real adventure biking to the USA and back home to Canada today. Enjoy the photos! Steve and I had to enter back into Canada through the car lanes. But bike riders were given priority, for safety reasons! The photos from this adventure today were taken using an Olympus X-42 digital camera. That uses an XD memory card.

Biking to the USA

Great viee of Lake Erie

Great view of the Niagra River

Arrived in the USA

The Mather Arch view from the USA side!

The Bridge across highway 190 to the observation deck!

The observation deck, overlooking the Peace Bridge, Lake Erie and the Niagara River

The Buffalo Marina, located off of Porter Ave.

Biking home to Canada!

Made it back home to Canada!

State Arboretum of Virginia

For the last day of holiday. We drove from Charles Town West Virginia to visit the city of Winchester, Virginia. After a nice visit at a tourist office located in Winchester. We decided to relax and enjoy a visit to the State Arboretum of Virginia. It is a very nice place again to relax and to enjoy being on vacation. I have incldued some photos!

The State Arboretum of Virginia is part of Blandy Experimental Farm, a research field station for the University of Virginia. The Arboretum collection includes a Virginia Native Plant Trail, the largest variety of boxwood cultivars in North America, and more than 6,000 trees and woody shurbs including a third of the world's pine species. The collection emphasizes native trees and woody shrubs and their exotic relatives. It is the only mature arboretum on limestone soils on the east coast. The grounds are open dawn to dusk, 365 days a year, free of charge.

Harpers Ferry National Park, West Virginia

Photo by Mark Fickett A very happy part of our holiday visiting the USA State of West Virginia. Was our vists to Harpers Ferry National Park. It is a place of extream beauty and preserved history. The Shenandoah River ends it's journey and flows into the Patomac River, within the National Park. My brother and I very much enjoyed our 2 visits during our vacation. Harpers Ferry National Park, is the kind of place. That after you arrive. You are in no hurry to leave. Here is some of the important history preserved in Harpers Ferry National Park. The town is named after Robert Harper. Harpers Ferry became a very important transporation hub and important place of manufactroing. Abolitionist John Brown, who atempted to end slavory pre Amercian Civil War. Led a raid on the Amrmoy located in the town of Harpers Ferry. The raid failed and John Brown was captured and stood trial in Charles Town and when found guilty of insurection, was later executed. I have included my photos of our visit to Harpers Ferry National Park.