Our RV Adventures

Well, I thought I would be done picking up gift certificates today, but it was not to be. I had two places to finished up, but one owner didn’t get back in town on time, (and in fact won’t be back until Tuesday) and the other one didn’t get the certificates printed out this afternoon. So I’ll see her tomorrow.

Leaving there, I stopped off at the local Moose Lodge to pay next year’s dues, before heading over to Wal-Mart to check out their laptop selection, but they didn’t have anything I liked.

Finally, on the way back to the fairgrounds, I stopped off at The Fountain, a really good breakfast and lunch place right on the town square. They gave us some gift certificates, and also wanted me to drop off some copies of the latest Gypsy Journal.

Getting back to the rig, our daughter Brandi called with the latest Landon story. Seems she was driving with Landon in the back seat and she sneezed. From the back she hears “Bless you, mommy”. She figures he learned it at daycare since he’s never said it before.

Later, Nick and Terry, Mike and Elaine, and Jan and I headed out to have dinner at Big Bamboo’s Dockside Grille on Grand Lake, and then to stop Nick’s sniveling, we stopped off at DQ for a frosty treat.

As seems to be usual for Nick’s rallies, we’re expecting rain for the next couple of days, just in time to start parking rigs.

Rain and mud. Oh boy!

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Thought for the Day:

"The one who says it cannot be done, should not interrupt the one doing it" – Chinese Proverb

Here’s what we were doing about 3 years ago.

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“Ferry cross the Mers… uh…North Atlantic…”

Originally posted on September 4, 2009

Today was our last day in Louisbourg for a while.

Tonight at 11:00 pm we catch the car ferry for the 15 hour, 325 mile trip to Argentia, Newfoundland.

However, unlike some RV’ers, we’re not taking our coach over. Jan said “No way I’m putting my home on a ferry. Those things can sink. I’ve seen it on the news.”

So we’re leaving the rig in Louisbourg and taking the truck on the ferry, and we’ll stay at B&B/motels for the 3-4 days we’re in Newfoundland.

We went out for breakfast about 10 am and ended up sitting next to another RVing couple from VA. Gene and Chris had just spent two months in Newfoundland and gave us a lot of good tips. Hopefully we’ll meet up again sometime. Nice people!

About 3 pm we left for North Sydney, Nova Scotia, where the ferry dock is.

We wanted to drive around the area, do some last minute shopping, get gas, and then eat supper before we boarded.

Although we didn’t sail until 11 pm, we had to be checked in and in line by 9:30, or we would lose our reservations. And, after taking care of all our chores, we ended up getting in line about 7:30, along with a lot of other people who were already there.

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They board all the commercial stuff first and then the cars. We finally started moving onboard about 10 pm

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After entering the ship on Deck 1, we drove up a ramp and parked on Deck 3.

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By about 10:30 pm we were up on the passenger decks with our stuff. You have to bring everything with you that you’ll need for the trip from your vehicle because you’re not allowed to go back to it during the voyage.

We had reserved two seats in the sleeping area that reclined and had footrests. It turns out to have been a mistake because they were very uncomfortable. We would have been better off to have just stayed in the regular seating area. Those seats also reclined, but didn’t have footrests. But they were much more comfortable.

After grabbing a late night muffin snack in the cafeteria, we settled in for the night.

More road trip tomorrow…

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I pretty much wrapped up the door prize scavenger hunt today. I’ve just got a couple of callbacks tomorrow to pick up a last few certificates and then I’m done.

Jan came with me today and after I was finished up we headed over to Wal-Mart to pick up some groceries. Coming back home we saw this sign being put up at one of the restaurants that had donated gift certificates to the rally.

At least I hope that’s us, and the Travelers aren’t in town.

Getting back to the rig, Jan napped while I worked on some items for Nick’s websites. Then I napped.

About 5pm Nick and Terry, and Jan and I, along with Mike and Elaine Loscher, drove over to St. Mary’s, about 10 miles away, to have dinner at Lost in the 50’s, a theme restaurant that we’ve eaten at several times before. They have a lot of Elvis memorabilia, along with a lot of old cars, and they always have something new.

But as it turned out, they have decided to start closing every day at 2pm, and they did this without telling us.

The nerve!

Deciding to come back to Celina and have dinner at our favorite China Wok Buffet, we took a quick detour by a Kroger’s so I could pick up some coffee beans we like.

After our usual great meal, we got back to the park a little before 8pm. Jan was waiting to hear from our daughter Brandi so we didn’t sit outside this evening.

Finishing up, and under the heading of Glad to Be in Ohio, tomorrow it’s gong to be 102 degrees at our former gate guarding location. Of course, that’s less than our record of 108, so I guess it qualifies as a cool spell.

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And here’s what we were doing 3 years ago today.

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Lighthouses and Wind Farms…

Originally posted on August 30, 2009

Today was the start of our 2 day Prince Edward Island road trip. We decided it would be easier to just leave our rig in Moncton and drive the truck over.

We left Moncton about 10 am for the 75 mile drive to Canada’s smallest province. Lengthwise, it’s about 160 miles from one end to the other.

But first we had to cross Confederation Bridge to get to the Island. The curved, 8 mile long bridge is the longest in the world crossing ice-covered water and is considered one of Canada’s top engineering achievements of the 20th century.

And it’s a very beautiful bridge, too.

Confederation Bridge

And they’re really proud of it, too! It’s a toll bridge, but they don’t charge you to enter the island, they charge when you leave.

And it costs $42.50 to get off the island!

Once we were over that shock, we decide to head toward the west and north ends of the island.

The first town of any size we cam to was Summerside. Passing a nice looking Chinese buffet restaurant, we decided to have lunch at the Jade Garden.

This is the 2nd Canadian Chinese restaurant we eaten at, and it’s apparent that Canadian Chinese food is a little different from American Chinese.

They only seem to have Won Ton soup, no Hot and Sour, which is our favorite. And they have egg rolls, but they also have something like a small fried burrito that has egg roll ‘stuff’ in it. What the real difference is, I don’t know.

I mean, you’d think we were in a foreign country, or something.

After lunch, we continued on what was called the North Cape Coastal Drive, which winds around the coast and up to the northern tip of the island.

The first place we came to was the West Cape Wind Farm, one of several wind farms scattered around the island.

West Cape Wind Farm

We were starting to get a little low on gas, and finding no gas stations along our route, we headed about 10 miles back toward the center of the island to fill up.

Rounding the West Cape area and now heading north, we traveled along the coast to more great scenery.

West Cape Cliffs

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Now working our way north, we finally reached the North Cape at the tip of the island.

This lighthouse and wind farm look out over the Atlantic ocean and the red cliffs show the effects of the ocean waves.

North Cape Lighthouse

North Cape Cliffs

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By this time it was getting late so we headed back down the main road down the center of the island to the capitol of Charlottetown where we where going to spend the night.

We got a room at a Holiday Inn and then went out for supper to a place downtown called Sim’s Steakhouse & Oyster Bar.

We had a dozen raw oysters (Up here they called them ‘Fresh’, not raw), and a couple of appetizers. The food was really good. But the service was abysmal. We were there almost an hour and a half, just for appetizers.

Tomorrow, we’ll do some of the Anne of Green Gables area, and then the other side of the island.

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Thought for the Day:

“A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.” –Burroughs