Rving to Fall Foilage: Thousand Island's more than just a dressing

First we have to go through customs, and thread the motorhome through this little itty bitty opening, there was only a cat hair between the bars

thank God we are in New York, never will I go back to Toronto in a 40 foot motorhome, I promise

OK, a detour with no bridge left to go over, we can handle it

Then "our" GPS sends us to this place which is not the campground we had told it to go to, we barely manage to get ourselves out of there, no damages though, really....we've been through Toronto, no damages

It was a beautiful place, they should have just set up a campground there and charged people

Brennan Resort, finally, on Lake Ontario

I'm excited, the whole reason for coming here....... the Thousand Islands, have wanted to show Cindy this for years

The bridge to a Thousand Islands,

they say that the Great Spirit told the Indians that if they would stop fighting

he would give them perfection,

they didn't,

so he put perfection in a bag and tossed it up into the air,

it fell out of the bag and broke into a thousand pieces and

landed in the St Lawrence

This is one of the most famous castles on one of the islands, Boldt Castle

Boldt was a penniless immigrant when he built the Waldorf Astoria,

he built this castle for his wife, spare no expense, wanted it to look like a Rhine castle,

his wife died,

he ordered work to stop on it, it was empty and incomplete for 70 years,

the state took it over and finished it in the 70's,

now tourist enjoy it and weddings take place there

There are actually over 1800 islands and not all have castles on them, some have little houses on them, some mansions, they all sit in the St Lawrence half way in Canada,

and half way in the United States