Canada horror

Lately, our couchsurfing experiences have not been the best. Or maybe it’s just Canada. Having lots and lots of time, and little planning, it seemed no less than reasonable to take a trip to Montreal. Upon arrival it turned out that our hostess found it to be the weirdest thing she had ever experienced. Why on earth would anybody want to come to Montreal? She discussed the matter thoroughly with her 20 year old son, who pointed out the obvious: either these guys are gay, or they are just in to porn extravaganza. As it turns out, Montreal is the Tijuana of the North. After the mandatory drag show, we finally somehow managed to talk ourselves out of going to some strip joints. As soon as we could, we headed on for Toronto.

Waiting for us in Toronto was an e-mail from our new couchsurfing hostess, asking us to wait another day before coming to her place. Apparently, she had an important day in court. Whether she worked as a lawyer, or she was accused of something, we never found out. We never even met her. She just disappeared from the face of the earth. Hope she’s ok. Instead, we embarged on the journey from hell.

Have you ever wondered what’s in Buffalo? I can tell you there is absolutely nothing in Buffalo. After having looked for lodging for some two hours, we finally found a motel. The only problem, though, was that it was being torn down. So we decided on the good-old 4 am out-in-the-street morning gymnastics, after which we stepped on it and went as far as the road would take us before it made sense to check in to a motel for the next night. 7.30, a cheerful Motel 6 clerk checked us in 30 miles east of Cleveland. In this little undiscovered haven, we had the nicest three or four days you could imagine. Here, we pimped our ride with a Hello Kitty steering wheel cover, which made the next part of our journey happy and gay. We had to leave, because for once, we actually had a deadline. Nobody was surprised that we had tickets to Christina Aguilera in Chicago.

You might also want to check out Anton’s blog. He’s even got a little map there, showing how we’re travelling. And some pictures. Here’s the link: http://www.travelpod.com/travel-blog/hmmma/us_road_trip_07/tpod.html