www.flickr.com Deciding to go Amtrak across America, I noticed that it stopped at Buffalo, and I thought I would grab the chance to visit Niagara Falls - they looked pretty close on a map! Well, it is actually a $100US taxi fare and a border crossing to Niagara Falls Ontario. But I bit the bullet and thought "how many times in your life do you get a chance like this?" The Amtrak trip from Chicago was great and mostly uneventful - the … [Read more...]