Day 15

Date: July 20, 2015

Location at the beginning of the day: 9 Mile Hill Rest Area in Michigan

Distance to drive: just over 300 miles

Hours to drive: just over 5

Destination: Chad’s cousin Kelly’s house in Waterloo Ontario

Planned activities:  cross the border and successfully back the trailer up in Kelly’s driveway (only the second time that Chad will be backing up the trailer)

I have to give the state of Michigan credit for the most amazing rest areas I have even encountered.  Their rest areas are more like parks.  They have beautifully maintained gardens, trails and some even have playgrounds.  You even have to enter a building to get to the bathrooms, which were incredibly clean.  This is a far cry from the rest areas in some states that had no potable water, no soap and in order to wash your hands you had to try to catch the couple of trickles of water as you pumped a button.

Whichever government built the between bridge Port Huron Michigan and Sarnia Ontario saw an opportunity to make money.  They built a toll bridge with a border crossing at either end.  In order to get in or out of the country in that region you have to use the toll bridge.  After waiting in line for the toll bridge and then the border we had an uneventful crossing into Canada.  I wish I could say the same about the adventures of backing a trailer into a driveway.  I will let Chad tell you in his own words www.epicorzenroadtrip.blogspot.com .

Luckily we were greeted by Chad’s cousin Kelly and her son who had made us a delicious dinner and prepared their basement for us to sleep in.