Funny I should write about my niece...

Because she's here at the house! My wife went to take her to book a flight back to the Sault this morning, and they wanted seven hundred bucks for a flight they sell on the Internet for a couple of hundred. My brother happened to be at the airport (small world) and tried to get them on the flight. But the booking at airlines has gotten so complex, that they were basically forced to give up.

Instead my wife will drive her to the bus station at midnight, for a twelve hour drive. Hopefully she can sleep on the bus!

When I was a kid I always enjoyed circumnavigating the Great Lakes. It has thousands of miles of Ocean-like shoreline, and much of it is quite picturesque. Hopefully the bus will go by some of it.