Friday, 6/23
Over Canada
We reluctantly departed Niagara Falls on Friday, but we did it in grand style, by over-flying the falls area, and departing north into Canada!
Far from the storms that continued to plague Ohio and Pennsylvania, we cruised along the Northern shoreline of Lake Erie, and had a great trip to our next stop, Willow Run, in Yipsilanti, Michigan.
This was the site of the Consolidated B-24 bomber factory during World War II (they were knocking out one Liberator an *hour* during peak production!), and it's still there, now producing General Motors cars. It's an awesome site to behold in its own right, and the airport is just huge.
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The falls in the distance as we climbed out...
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The locks above the falls...
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The old control tower at Willow Run -- those hangars are humongous!
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