Busy Border Crossing

Oct 23/17 Weather ~ Fall is here.  A cold front is coming and today will be rainy, windy and mid 50's.  Low about 47. 

Ambassador Bridge

 We are crossing from Windsor into Detroit and will take the Ambassador Bridge.  On a normal day this is a busy commercial crossing as it takes up to 25% of the trade between Canada and the USA.  Lots of transports.  Today for 10 days the tunnel is closed for maintenance so all the cars are using the Bridge as well.   We waited till about 10 am to cross hoping that the double traffic would be cleared by then.  As we came across we were right the car lanes were empty.  Oddly enough the RV's and Buses have a specific lane in the car lane area.  In the last 7 years crossing we have always been made to use this lane...... but not today.  One guard was waving us to the lane , another was pointing to the left and a third was putting up a big stop hand sign.  Billy was waving back.  Well where am I supposed to go????  They decided that we had to back up and cut across all the lanes to go between a couple of pylons and over to the truck lanes.  Oh great.  Yeah sure, we'll just back up this mini cooper.  Luckily there was no car traffic coming and we could do this.  Pulling up in the truck lanes which was packed - 7 lanes with at least 10 trucks in each lane.  Oh boy!  1 hour later we cleared with no problem and entered the freeway.  Now don't forget I75 is also closed in Detroit for 11 miles so you have to detour out I94 past the airport then catch US23 south to I475 and back onto I75 at Perrysburg.  It pays to check your DOT pages before heading out with a big rig.  Well a few hours later we had put in our 235 miles and it was 3:00 pm; time to stop for the day at the Wapakoneta KOA.  We really like this campground, so convenient and we had enough fun for today.

Wapakoneta KOA

Offensive Onion?

October 15/2015  Weather in Ontario - frost warnings coming in the next two days, 50's during the day.   With the cold front coming we decided to leave and head south.  We crossed at Ambassador Bridge into Detroit and had 20 questions with the Customs Officer.   You could tell by the lineup it was going to be interesting. 

Damn Onion

C.O. "Where are you going?"
Bill "Florida"
C.O. "When are you coming back?"
Bill "December 17"
C.O. "What do you have with you?"
Bill "Just our everyday belongings"
C.O. "Heroine? Ecstasy? Crystal Meth?"
Bill "No, nothing like that"
C.O. "How do I know that isn't your everyday stuff?
Bill "We have our clothes, some food"
C.O. "What kind of food?  Do you have tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, peppers, limes, lemons?"
Rosey "No I removed anything with seeds and our eggs.  All our meat is frozen"
C.O.  "I'm coming on to look inside.  I need to look in the fridge.  Can you open your door?"
Bill  "I don't know, I can check if it will hit the booth"
C.O. "That should be a yes or a no".
By now we are looking at each other shrugging our shoulders!!!!  What the heck.
On he came and walked the coach, knocked on the bathroom door then opened it.   Is that weird????  knocking on the bathroom,,,,, Do Not Laugh!  We felt like it.
He looked in the sink, then opened the fridge went through the keepers.  And found the Offensive Spanish Onion.  "What do you call this?  Looks like an Onion!"
Rosey "Oh shit!  Yes that is an onion.  You can have it".
C.O. Put the onion back in the fridge and walked up front,  didn't say a thing.   As he was leaving the motorhome, he said "What's in the trailer?  I want to see in the trailer."
Bill "ok, can I get the key and unlock it?"
Bill and the C.O. walked back to the trailer.  Unlocked it and looked inside at the Harley.  Bill came back and got inside.  We got our passports back from him and he said "Have a good trip".  Bizarro.......  
That border crossing was the 2nd craziest we have ever had.   Billy is going to have to do something about that face of his. 

Pulled in our spot at Whispering Hills

Away we went.  Phew!!!
We did get to Georgetown, Kentucky and stayed the night at Whispering Hills RV Park.   It has been a few years since we stopped here and they have expanded, they added a nice big row of pull thrus.  We did get one of the last sites, it was quite busy.   We asked to stay another night but they were full the weekend.  She said October is their busiest month.  Big college football game in town - Auburn vs Kentucky.   So we will move on south tomorrow morning.