Wednesday June 15th: last night away from home

We awoke this morning to a stressful situation - severe weather forecasts of 100% torrential downpours with the possibility of thunderstorms throughout our entire day. The good news is that we were able to outrun those storms by zig-zaging east faster than the storms were moving in from the west. We definitely ran into lots and lots of traffic - mostly tractor trailer trucks and cars (not too many campers) - all of which ended up trying to get through Canadian customs at the same time. They only had 4 lanes open at the border - so the rain we had escaped almost caught up to us by the time we got through. We did run into some rain just before London Ontario - but not enough to slow us down too much. Traffic continued to increase throughout the day - I think basically it was just the normal flow of cars that travel through these cities on a daily basis. We saw our second accident of the trip today - a scary reality check for us as first we saw the ambulance driving away then a badly damaged Harley in the median which apparently had been forced off the road by a tractor trailer truck. We continued on and the temps began to rise - reaching high 80s by the time we reached the US border. As we still had our rain gear on from this morning needless to say we were more than overheating - so stopped at the first rest area we came to on I-90 and took off several layers. Decided to stay the night at a campground in the finger lakes region of New York - had steak and corn on the cob cooked over the open fire for supper - much better than any restaurant food we could have purchased. Psyched to be only 255 miles away from home - that'll be the shortest day we've logged in 23 days! D&C