1 Province, 3 States, 1 Time Zone and a border check!

We set off from Windsor around 0730, the bridge to the US was about a mile from the hotel. Traffic was remarkably light and there was no line at the US border control, this was looking really good until we met Senor Puente. Seems he thought we were not as innocent as we looked (!), or he was in the market for a trailer and wanted to check out various models. After a brief chat he wanted the trailer keys, but insisted I stay in the truck. He and his buddy went off to the trailer for about 5 minutes, then came back, gave us the keys and passports back and then wished us a good day. All we can guess is they were looking for stowaways in the trailer!!

We clipped the southern edge of Detroit with no traffic problems even though it was rush hour, continued south through Michigan into Ohio and then into Kentucky. The land was pretty flat and not particularly scenic, there was very little snow to be seen as the temperatures rose from 0 to 12 degrees.  There was one sign at the side of the interstate that caught my eye “Used Cows for Sale”! Once in Kentucky the scenery got more interesting with rolling hills, it also meant a little more effort was required with driving as some of the big rigs  don’t like defying gravity and slow down quite noticeably. The trick was to recognise the non hill climbers in time to be able to overtake them and not get stuck behind them. We crossed into the Central Time Zone in central Kentucky, which came as a bit of a surprise, and meant an early arrival at the hotel.

After another 480 mile day we are both pretty tired so the extra hour will have its uses.