Days 1-4

We have finally arrived at a place that has internet available so I will attempt to give an account of the trip thus far. We haven't really begun sightseeing the places we set out to see, but I'll update you on a few things that have taken place prior to the actual fun stuff.

Day 1: We left home in the afternoon today, Oct. 1st. (Happy Birthday to my sister, Sharon!) Lucky got to stay at Jodi's this trip. We didn't want to leave Sparkle for two reasons: Jodi doesn't deserve to have to take care of a puppy and we didn't want to leave her in the middle of her training period. We are pretty sure that Lucky was happy to be away from her for a while. She drives him CRAZY. So it's sort of a vacation for him as well!
When we left home, gas was 2.12 a gallon. By the time we stopped for the night in Punxatawney, Pa., we had to pay 2.44 a gallon. We looked for Punxatawney Phil, or Ponce de Leon as one of my former students referred to him as, but no sign of him. We spent the night in a luxury suite at a Flying J parking lot. Clean bed, bath, and food was great. ha.


Day 2: FINALLY...we managed to get through the state of Pa. GEEZ, that is a wide state! We crossed the Delaware just like George Washington and headed into NY, then Mass. It was an uneventful day basically. We selected a fancy place at a travel plaza on Mass. Pike.

Day 3: Note to self...attempt to avoid all turnpikes and toll roads w.hen in the motor home. A regular car driver would never guess how much more RV drivers have to pay to travel these roads. We went across a mile bridge that carried a toll charge. Cars were a buck. We paid $5.50 for and RV towing a jeep. This came up several times today and it became very annoying. I'm pretty sure we didn't enjoy driving that road that much more than the folks in the cars.
We are noticing that the colors in Mass. are getting brighter the further north we go. As we moved into NH and then Maine, the foliage was spectacular. We spotted a moose in a river but passed it too quickly to get a photo.
We selected a lovely Walmart to shop and spend the night before crossing into Canada.
It's been proven many times that if I allow my eyes to veer from the road for a minute, Glenn takes a wrong turn. If I go to make lunch, we end up on a byway to who knows where. This time, I went into Walmart to get him some cold medicine and in that short time, he managed to attempt to turn the motor home around in the parking lot and got stuck in a place that he couldn't get out of. He ended up having to unhook the jeep and another person who was staying there also came over to help him out of the mess. I was gone 15 minutes and it was a mini disaster. This is why I don't take a lot of naps.

Day 4: We got up and headed toward the border this morning. We were fully prepared, had all the rules covered, etc...so we thought. The customs officer asked a couple questions, checked our passports, and casually asked if we had anything else in the vehicled that he hadn't mentioned. Glenn told him upfront that he had a weapon. MISTAKE. We were well read, had all the rules covered, had the correct forms filled out....and he wants to know why he has a weapon. Since the rules we read said that it was ok to have certain ones to protect yourself from wild animals, he stated that as a reason. Uh, no? He said that wasn't a reason. He said that Prince Edward Island doesn't have any animals that would hurt us. hmmm. So he said Glenn would have to leave the weapon there. Well I knew THAT wasn't going to happen! So we said we weren't coming back that way. So he suggested that we go back to Maine and SHIP it home!!!! Finally Glenn said well, what if I was going to go skeet shooting? At that, the officer invited him in. After conferencing with another officer, they agreed that we had covered all bases, followed all rules, tried to be honest, and let him pay his $25.00 and turn in his forms, and proceed with his weapon. I was very annoyed that they didn't care one bit about the puppy that we had taken to get checked by Dr. Joe and that she had a health certificate to make sure she didn't get confiscated. Nor did they care about how much alcohol we had OR the fact that I had made the bed very nicely so that when they came in and checked us, we didn't look all trashy.
We arrived on the island late this afternoon. Gas is 91 cents a liter...I think that might be about 4 bucks a gallon. yikes. Glenn asked about paying with American money, etc, and they said it was PAR. We think that might mean that our money is near the same as Canadian right now but we aren't really sure!
We are at the Cavendish KOA and it's been raining like crazy so we don't really know what anything looks like here. We have Wifi, but not cable. Glenn managed to get a couple channels on TV and it took a little while but he finally realized that they are in French!
Tomorrow we plan to take the jeep out and follow the drives along the coastline. From the little we saw so far, it looks amazing. We are hoping to see fishing villages and lobster fleets and lots of colors. Hopefully I'll be connected enough to update this frequently.