Hello From Ontario: A Driving Tour Along The Niagara Escarpment
Although I love the city the summer always makes me itch to get out into the country. So I called up my friend Karel with whom I had helped organize a conference many years ago and asked him if he would mind getting together in his neck of the woods near Burlington for a country driving tour of the Niagara Escarpment. Since we had not seen each other for a couple of years it was a great opportunity to catch up and enjoy a beautiful drive at the same time.
So we met this morning on a parking lot just off Guelph Line in the north end of Burlington. I parked my car and off we drove in Karels convertible. We drove north into the green countryside and up a slope to get to our first destination: a nature area called the Mount Nemo Conservation Area. We parked the car and walked about 15 minutes eastwards through a forest until we reached a steep cliff and a lookout point that offered a beautiful 180 degree view over the rolling farm country that was sprawling far below us.
The Niagara Escarpment is a geological formation that extends from western New York State through Ontario to Michigan, Wisconsin...