Home again

We spent the last few days in Athens Ohio as this was Homecoming weekend. Becky's family meets there every year as it seems it's the only time they can get together. As suggested in our initial post we mentioned that we went past the birth place birth of  U.S. Grant. On our way home we stopped by and took a couple of pictures. We also stopped in Madison In. and had lunch at the Downtowner. Great soup and Reuben sandwich.

More pictures from the falls.

Donnie and Cindy at the falls

Niagara Falls day Two

We decided to purchase the Discovery tour package. This included a movie, Maiden of the Mist boat ride to the falls, and Cave in the wind.  I hope the pictures do it justice so here goes:

It is hard to describe what the power of the falls feels like. We are standing at the base of the falls and the feeling is unbelievable. It flows 670,000 gallons per second.

North to Niagara Falls

We decided to cross another national treasure off of our bucket list. Since we both have a special interest in water falls we decided to go to Niagara Falls. We will break the trip up into different sections. The first section will have us at Beckys mother house in Athens. We found yet another way there by traveling rural roads both in Indiana and Ohio. We even went by US Grant's birthplace in south central Ohio. Did not take any pictures but may if we decide to go that way home. Second leg of the trip was to travel rural roads in Ohio. It is amazing how many good motorcycle roads there are in Southeast Ohio. We did not make great time but that was not the point, we really enjoyed the roads and the weather. We are now in Niagara Falls and spent the day there. Here are a few pictures from today.

Rest Stop on a rural road in Ohio

Look who we ran into while at the state park. This is our friends from New Albany who just happened to be there Donnie and Cindy Kleehamer.

More images tomorrow.