The little town of Clayton is really picturesque and right on the Seaway. The hotel was perfect and the food superb either in the bar or in the restaurant.

Here's a shot of the closest island we could see from our fourth floor porch ... in the howling rain, waves and fog.

And a night shot of the little downtown.

On Tuesday morning, the 17th, we packed up and after a nice breakfast headed north about three miles to the Canadian border. With all the Covid protocols I had spent a lot of time setting up their ArriveCan apps on both of our phones. We rolled up to the border check point and we were the only car there ... and one semi was in the truck lane. The agent asked for our NEXUS cards, scanned them, and said, "Have a nice day." About 20 seconds at the border ... close to a new record.

Then up the 401 highway east for about 50 miles, take a left on the 416 for another 50 miles and we were in Ottawa.

At this point our hotel room changing got worse as we got into the Lord Elgin hotel. I had specifically reserved a "park view" room with two queens and we walked into the "dumpster view" room on the back side of the hotel. Down to the desk. After apologies we got a new room and went back up only to find that it had only one bed ... jeez. Down to the desk ... with Jo-Anne sitting on our luggage in the hallway. New room ... finally what I had originally asked for.

Time for the pub next door.