Back in the US of A

I know it has been warm back home, but this morning it was pretty cool in Pembroke, in spite of the sun shinning brightly.  Last night Mike and I re-worked my overdrive and today we would test it out.  So, after breakfast, with the A's all packed, we headed out on the roadway.  When I got up to speed, about 40 mph, I engaged the OD.....and it slipped right in.  Yippee! now back up to highway speeds.  Actually we were only traveling about 6 mph faster than yesterday, but the engine noise was down about 75%. 

RT 17 is the primary road in the area.  It's a straight road with few hills, but it still goes through towns and passes by some very nice farms.  For some reason it seemed like the A's were really running great today.  We were able to zip right along even with the wind blowing, BUT, the wind was coming from the rear and may have been pushing us along too.  The other thing to note is that Canadian gas contains NO ethanol, which also may be helping.

We did get off the highway to take a break from the other cars, but it seems Canada is doing work on all their roads.  We hit some detours so we decided to get back on the highway.  That was OK, since we were able to get to the bridge to cross back into the US.  This bridge was the metal grid type and the Model A's really wiggled all over the road making it feel like you had a flat tire.    Finally over to the other side we got in line for security.  What a breeze this was, as the guard was more interested in talking about the cars.  I guess his dad had a Model T.

Back on US soil, it was getting more overcast as we headed to the Adirondacks and Lake Placid.  It wasn't long before we started to get some rain and it rained off and on the rest of the day.  We also seemed to find road construction along the route too.  I guess the road construction crews are doing well this year. 

Arriving in Lake Placid we noticed how crowded it was, with loads of people on the sidewalks and not a parking place to be found.  We eventually got settled into Art Devlin's Olympic Motor Inn.   Art was an Olympic Ski Jumper and ABC TV commentator, BUT he also had a couple of Model A's which his son, Art Jr., still uses.  The roadster was under the portico at the Inn when we arrived.