Today has been a day of extremes. We left our idyllic hideaway on Valcour Island this morning and made it to Rouses Point, NY where we secured the boat for our trip home. We got a ride to the train station at 3:00 for our 4:00 schedule. The station was a real surprise. It was a deserted single room locked wooden building by the side of the train track. We waited with our luggage hoping the train would come and that it would actually stop. At 4:30 we called a 1-800 number on a poster there and was reassured that the train would be about 40 minutes late. Sure enough, the train came and it stopped!

Going through customs was not a problem at all. They stopped the train in the middle of a corn field, and a customs agent came through and checked our passports.

Tonight we are at the Fairmont Hotel in the old city of Montreal. We had crepes for supper at an open air café and could hear strains of jazz from a trumpet in the air. The city was beautiful from the Quoi Jacques Cartier and the picture is of the city library.