#21 PEACE BRIDGE, TORONTO, CN TOWER, PEOPLE IN BIZ, MAYA CYCLE

August 15, 2011  Monday

Readers may recall that we were towed into Buffalo on Sunday evening, so this Monday morning I called the Audi/VW dealer where we dropped the car yesterday evening.  After a chat about the bug, the service manager told me that they were "really more of an Audi dealer" and referred me to a VW dealer in another area of Buffalo.  So, I called over there, and that VW dealer service manager wasn't really enthusiastic about working on an almost 40 year old VW.  He told me that he really didn’t have the mechanics to work on my VW, and suggested an independent mechanic name of Martin.  He arranged with Martin to have the bug towed to Martins.  I got a phone number for Martin.  That’s all I knew.  Trust.

Meanwhile, I rented a car this morning so that Reyna and I could continue on to Toronto, Ontario to visit customers before returning to Buffalo to catch up with Speed Global Services.  Speed is an international forwarder, customs broker and distribution warehouse company for whom we do some work in our warehouse in Fullerton.  Speed has invited us to a party with their customers on Thursday 17^th.

Peace Bridge from Buffalo to Ft. Erie, Ontario, Canada way in the background





Peace Bridge





Crossing into Canada was quick and relatively painless.





Western suburbs of Toronto. We’re skipping the toll road that goes directly to Markham and taking the through downtown Toronto and around north to Markham to visit customer, People In Biz.



CN Tower (in background right).



People In Biz founder Joon Kim.  People in Biz is an international marketing and distribution company for whom ESNA warehouses and distributes Neo Tech display stands. ttp://www.peopleinbiz.com/





Nice name for a street. J



On way back into Toronto to meet with Maya Cycle.

 

What a concept.  Bikeway next to expressway.

Waterfalls along the expressway.

It’s a bit before 5PM, so rush hour as we find our way to CN Tower.

View from CN Tower.

Did not go on the Edge Walk!

Reyna with Marta Staniszewski and her dad, Mike, after we had enjoyed nice evening with them.  Mike and Marta founded MayaCycle.

 

Maya Cycle has designed and imports a bicycle cargo trailer with  a quick connect/disconnect so it can be used as a shopping cart.  Capacity is two 30 packs according to my son, Steve, who uses it for beach outings.  http://www.mayacycle.com/