and after a breakfast from the nearby McDonalds, we headed to the home of Rattrak in Roseville, MI. From his home, we drove to SQ-Workman's Circle, it was a great cache location at a Jewish Cemetery. We noticed the graves were in Hebrew and English. We also saw the memorial for the Jews murdered by the Nazis in World War II. Soon, we headed towards the tunnel in Detroit to take us to Windsor, Canada. First we stopped at St. Mary's Catholic Church and read the historical markers which told about the church being used as part of the Underground Railroad where runaway slaves from the South stayed before finding freedom across the river in Canada. We later visited the virtual cache The Gateway to Freedom, a monument depicting runaway slaves looking across the river to Windsor, Canada.
After the virtual find, we left the United States and drove through the tunnel into Canada. We were prepared with our passports. Thankfully having Rattrak in the car was very helpful since he crossed the border on a regular basis. We grabbed several caches in the Windsor area including two earthcaches. Windsor's Halite a salt mine and Windsor Tallgrass. With the completion of these two earthcaches, I have completed my quest for the Earthcaches Master's program and to receive the Platinum Award.
We completed many caches in the area, mostly along the river front. We liked the view along the river and the Ambassador Bridge. We stopped to shop at a couple of places, one being a Tim Horton's. A coffee/donut shop, there were many of these stores around. The locals call the stores "Timmy's". A stop there, a souvenir store downtown and the duty free store at the border gave me an opportunity to drop a few US where's george bills into the Canadian circulation.
After a delay at the US border, we drove back into Detroit and found CD - Battle of Bloody Run - SQ . The first stage was a historical marker about a massacre during the French and Indian War. Being at this spot, I can say that I have been to at least one battle site of every major conflict East of the Mississippi River. Just short of Rattrak's home, cachestalker94 wanted to try out different food and we found a Middle Eastern place, where cachestalker94 got a lamb gyro to go.
We proceeded to the airport without delay and fly home.
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