The first part of the trip to the Pocono mountains has gone smoothly and we’ve made it from Ontario to Watertown New York. We actually confused the border guard when we said we were heading to the Poconos to road test cars. He tried to figure out if we might need a work visa, but his co-workers more or less told him to settle down. “The guy is going to drive some cars, go home and write about them. He’ll get paid at home in Canada.” Nice call Mr. Border Man!

We’ve been warned in the past couple of weeks that we’ll see lots of deer and we should be careful. I figured we wouldn’t see deer till further south, but we saw a doe and her calf about halfway between the border and Watertown. They were well off the road, but still close enough to act as a reminder than we’ll need to keep our eyes open tomorrow.
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