Great Lakes Seaway Trail

Well it's been a crazy 24 hours! We left Toronto yesterday and drove through to Erie, PA. Our plan, to cache on the GeoTrail of the Great Lakes Seaway Trail.
http://www.seawaytrail.com/geotrail.html
It is an amazing trail that travels along all of the great lakes (on the American side). If you complete 10 of 15 caches in each section you can get a commemorative coin. Our goal was to get 10 in the Lake Erie section.

On Friday as we drove down I90, I recognized a view point as having the same name as one of the caches int a different region, but we stopped anyway. It was our second cache of the evening (as we had stopped for one near the visitors centre, just after we crossed the border).

Then we continued all the way to Erie and we got a hotel room for the night, so we could get up early and begin our adventure.

So this morning we awoke early (at least by my standards) and were out the door by 8:30am, and off to our first cache location. However, we had to make a little detour...Cracker Barrel...for some fried apples!! Yummy! All was not lost as we were able to pick up several urban caches during this pit stop!

It was so humid out today that we never did take the bikes off the back of the van! :(
Our first stop for the GeoTrail was a cache that was down a very steep hill.

And here is Celeste on the steep staircase.

Now most were not like this, they were on trails that had easy access.
Here is Celeste at the Environmental Centre, one of the places you can pick up a log book.

 Now we lost some time here as there was a lot to see, and the State Park at Presque Isle was also a distraction. There were a lot of caches on the Isle, but we wanted to see some of the sights so we took a drive down one lane and completed a virtual cache about the War of 1812.  We will definitely return here, there was too much to see and not enough time. It was already time for lunch, so we stopped for a burger and fries at a local eatery. Man was it hot out!
After refuelling, off to do more caching! During our journey, we saw this street sign and just had to take a snap shot for Elaine and Carol.

And can you believe that I haven`t even once looked for a quilting store or fabric shop?

Well that's the last photo I can load, because Mark took the rest in RAW format and I don't have time to convert them as we are still it the US. You might think it would be easy to get 10 caches in a day? Well we were not able to make it. Maybe if we ignored all the other caches in between and all the other interesting thinks to see. One we couldn't find (like many other cachers before us), and two had too many muggles around and we couldn't wait them out. So just before the sun went down we were able to get our 9th cache on the GeoTrail.
So we are spending another night in the US and tomorrow morning, we will get the 10th cache plus a few more and then head back to Canada.

I'm exhausted..the other two are already asleep...I'm heading there now.....