Today is a travel day again. And apparently I just deleted today's pictures in my downloading process, so this should be a short blog. We were on the road about 9:35, dumped, fueled and at the border by 10:00, and across the border by 10:05 (after paying $12), and through Customs by 10:10. After all our efforts to come across legal (or whatever the right word is), the only questions we were asked were: where are we going, and do we have any firearms. I should have offered the Customs guard one of my 10 hard-boiled eggs!
But as we came across the bridge, one of the big freighters was going through the locks, so I'm sorry I didn't get those pictures posted. I don't know if it was one of the 1,000-feet longs ones, but it looked pretty substantial to me.
Our one stop today was at the Canadian Bushplane Heritage Centre, which was right on the river bank and we could see it from our campground last night. They had a nice selection of planes, varying sizes, and some of the planes we could walk into. They also showed two awesome movies with special effects. The second movie was about fighting forest fires with these planes, it was 3-D, and it was really interesting and educational. With our Arizona forest fire history, we all found it to be very enlightening.
We left there about noon and drove until 4:00, to Sudbury, Ontario, 198 miles. We fueled in the U.S. right before we crossed the bridge for $2.789. We have seen gas prices here in Sudbury for $1.219 per liter, so we think that figures out to be $4.60 per gallon in Canadian dollars, which we think converts to about $3.22 U.S. dollars, maybe. Not sure about that, though. We will fuel tomorrow, but we probably won't have any more of a clue what we are paying until the credit card bill comes in.
We had trouble again with the voltage at the RV park. So many of these parks in this part of the country are old, the wiring is old, and apparently doesn't carry enough voltage to run our A/C. We moved to a different site, and it is a little better, but not great. Fortunately, we had a little rain storm blow through which cooled everything off, so I think we will get by tonight without running the A/C.
Since we didn't want to use the convection oven or heat up the RVwith the stove, we drove into Sudbury to look the town over and find some dinner. We ended up at a fancy pizza place, which was pretty good, but a little expensive, and many things on the menu were foreign to us hicks. But we had dinner, bought some eggs, and got back to camp for the night (so I could delete my photos!). We are making forward progress now, though. Should be meet back up with the Brundiges on Friday if all goes well.
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