Saturday, July 24, 2010

Day one - arrival


The trip getting there was the easiest of all our trips. 4.5 hours from John Wayne to Toronto. Toronto airport is big and modern but they must have saved money on signs. We had to ask for directions to find the exit from the airport and we had to ask directions 3 times to find the rental car place. It was an easy trip to Bo’s cousin’s (Andrew) house in Oshawa (a Toronto) suburb. Oshawa is about 60km from downtown Toronto. It’s a city of about 150,000 with a huge automotive industry. The biggest plant is the GM plant, which also produces parts for Honda. Andrew told us that at its peak, the plant employed over 17,000 people, but now it’s been reduced to 6,000 or so. Both he and his wife work in this plant.

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