Well here we are, back in Toronto!

We only had a 100 mile drive in today but the weather still managed to throw everything at us. We left wearing heated jackets in 4C (36F) temperature with sun and blue sky and 25 miles from Toronto, the sky turned black and the heavens opened.  The rain bounced as we manoeuvred our way between all the trucks as they hammered along the highway covering us with spray. Just as we arrive at the hotel, the rain stops!

We have now completed our loop of the Lower 48 and what a fantastic trip it has been!

 

The view from our hotel window - a golf course with the airport just behind.

When we left 3 months ago everything was green and now we see it in the autumn colours.  We have just collected our luggage from Chris, who is the mother of our neighbour's friend and lives just outside Toronto. She very kindly stored it for us for the last 3 months and to be honest if she hadn't been so kind enough to do that we would have had real problems. So thank you once again, Chris!

 

 

And now a foot-note:-)

We omitted to tell you that we had a stationary tip-off last Sunday. Whilst riding through a village, we came to a halt behind a car and as John put his foot down, the road wasn't there. He had stopped and put his left foot down, then when his right foot went down, the road was a few inches lower so by this time the bike had leant too far to the right to retrieve it, so over we went. Luckily only a couple of minor scratches on the bike but John's foot got trapped under the cylinder head. It hurt when he stood up but decided not to take his boot off to look as he knew it wouldn't go back on. Two Americans and one British guy came running over and helped us lift up the bike which weighs a ton fully loaded!

 

This is now Wednesday and it is still swollen but the bruising is now coming out. Its been very difficult and painful for John to get his boot on these last few days but fortunately it happened at the end of the trip and not the beginning. And for all the motorcyclists out there now smiling, as you know, you have all been there:-) 

So, tomorrow we start the preparation for home! We have been keeping a record of different things such as miles covered, fuel used, and costs which we will put on the blog when finalised.