This was an agressive day similar to past tours.  Lots of riding and very little stopping happened on this day, but the trip was great.  We rode up just below the St. Lawrence River.  One had to know to look for the stop of the day; it was the Eisenhower Locks.

We hit it just right; a Copenhagen ship was just entering on the low side to be lifted up and out up river while another ship was waiting to go the other way.  The second picture shows the ship being raised.

The kids just wanted to be in the picture (we had made friends with them watching the boats).

From there we went on up into Canada at a very small border crossing on a two lane highway we had to search for because it was not marked.  Then we sort of felt our way North and East to Montreal until we began to see some road signs.  Road signs are scarce and in French; so it got difficult to navigate.  But we found our way into the big city and promptly got lost downtown.  How we got out of there we may never know, but we did escape the clutches of that city-monster toward the West.  The only picture in the city is of the large central train station:

We then had a big decision: home via Vermont, NY, PA, OH or home via Toronto, Hamilton, and Port Huron, or home via Ottawa and Sault Ste. Marie?  Sault Ste. Marie won. We love the Upper Peninsula and the big bridge (we are Michigan boys after all).  We should be near or in the States tomorrow.  Night all; 11 hours on the road today was enough for these two old grumps.