The forecast for today was pretty favourable for a winter's day, that is until today. When we got there was at least six inches of snow on the ground and it was still snowing. Luckily, we have wonderful neighbours. After Rob cleared his driveway with his snow blower he came over and clears our driveway. Of course the snow plow came by when Ed and I were in the house doing a couple last minute things. When we came out, there was Rob and Ellen clearing the snow at the end of the driveway by hand --- they didn't want to use the snow blower as the wind would have blow snow back onto the truck. Thanks again Rob and Ellen, you're the best neighbours ever.

The driving was a little slow at first but that was mainly due to the slow moving vehicle in front of us. Shouldn't complain too much as it was clearing the snow out of the way as it went --- got love snow plows. We made a quick stop at a McDonald's to log onto the Internet to check to see where highway 21 was closed. Free wi-fi in restaurants is another thing I'm really liking these days. Luckily the road closure was north of where we wanted to drive. We continued on our way and soon were driving on went pavement, then dry pavement.

The border crossing was interesting. It took a half hour but then only two kiosks were open and that wasn't enough for the the volume of traffic. Things moved a lot faster when two more kiosks opened. After a couple of standard questions, the border guard asked Ed to shut off the truck and hold the key up. After Ed complied, he asked why, and the border guard said he couldn't tell us.

After several more uneventful hours of driving we stopped at a Red Roof Inn in Erlanger (bottom end of Cincinnati). I highly recommend this hotel. It's not fancy, but it was clean and they served a complementary breakfast. As the building originally was a Comfort Inn the rooms are larger than the standard Red Roof Inn rooms.