Day 15 - Ottawa to Scranton

After checking out of the hotel this morning, we left for downtown Ottawa to do a little sightseeing. Since it was a Sunday, we were able to get around easily and saw quite a bit.

Then we headed of south towards the border. Before crossing over, we made another stop in the town of Brockville on the banks of the St Lawrence River. Here Hannah is enjoying the boating activities on the river.

Passing through customs was relatively painless for us. Show our passports, answer a few questions, and we were on our way.

After entering the states, we were looking for a cache in New York to drop off a geocoin. We stopped at "I-81 S. Parking Area" (GCTQPQ) and, although we couldn't drop the coin here, we did meet another cacher and a caching couple at the cache. Hannah got this shot of us returning from the cache.

As we moved south, we got off the main roads in Pennsylvania and stopped at a really great cache location - "Lost In The Fifties" (GC126KM) which appears to be a Shell service station from the 1950's. All of the items are authentic and most are in working order. It is a privately owned collection and the owner was good enough to come out and talk to us and show us more of his collection that was inside. It was a one of a kind and we thoroughly enjoyed the stop.

We continued south on the secondary roads and were amazed to find a very large concrete structure near the road that looked like a Roman aquaduct. It turned out that it was the Tunkhannock Viaduct, a railroad bridge built in 1915 that is over a quarter-mile long and 240 feet high.

We continued on down the back roads, ending the day on the south side of Scranton, PA.

Today's travel - 367 miles

Cumulative distance - 5778.44 miles