Water & Oil

Niagara Falls, New York
Titusville, Pennsylvania

So after all that, with Lisa white-knuckling Ben’s sides, we rode out of New York City and headed toward Niagara Falls. Arriving there in extremely cold conditions, we viewed the falls and took a boat trip into the mist. The falls are beautiful and lie right on the American/Canadian border. From the falls we rode along Lake Erie and after about 10 hours of riding, Ben was really feeling the road. So we pulled over in a little town named Titusville, Pennsylvania. Titusville just happens to be where the first successful oil production well was ever discovered and exploited in 1849. There are a lot of attractions there, which was really interesting considering the recent influx of prices around oil. (Since arriving to the States we’ve seen the price of a barrel of oil raise from $105 to $127 with no hope in sight for any decrease.) One of the attractions in Titusville was all the rail systems that were used to transport the ‘black gold’ in and out of Pennsylvania. Because of these rails, this is how we found a unique place to stay for the night: a small hotel made up of 20 or so train cabooses (caboosi?)