In case anyone is disappointed that they won’t be able to read about Newfoundland, the new tailgunners are continuing the blog at: http://www.travelingwithsykes.blogspot.com
Our last day with the Caravan…….As Bill and I walked around the campground bidding our last farewell to our guest, (who were up and about-we were sorry we didn’t get a chance to see everyone, but with the schedule everyone had been keeping, we didn’t want to wake anyone up) we couldn’t help but feel the sadness that we were unable to finish the trip. Everyone was wonderful and understood, but we still had that feeling of letting everyone down. It didn’t make us feel any better to find that one of our guests awoke that morning to a dead RV….. It was a Saturday, so they had to wait until Monday to have it towed in for repairs and missed the 14 hr. ferry over to Newfoundland and had to wait until Saturday to get on the ferry. Later, on the road in Newfoundland, another one of our guests had a computer problem of some sort which required them to backtrack in order to get it fixed. Boy, they would have continued to keep Bill busy! But we were happy that they were able to find new tailgunners to come in and take our place, and we really appreciated the fact that they drove MANY miles to get up there (as they are from Arkansas).
Unfortunately I have no pictures of coming home as we were both worried about Bill’s dad, driving fast, over REALLY ROUGH roads. We made it to the border and then some the first night. Crossing the border, we were asked some stupid questions like, did you get into any trouble while in Canada……dah like we would have told him! I forget the name of the town we made it to, but we drove 625 miles miles! We made one mistake. We should have exchanged our money prior to leaving Canada, because now it was Saturday and no banks are open on a Saturday in Nova Scotia.
We made it from Maine to home on the second day, ANOTHER 625 MILES, getting home in the evening and boy did it feel good! The roads were so bumpy (and it didn’t help with the fact that Bill was driving as fast as he could) that somehow my jumpdrive came out of my storage box & our recliner chair “jumped” on it and it is now in pieces…..Not to mention a lot of other things that were thrown around in the 5th wheel.
The one good thing was, we didn’t break down on our way home AND paying $2.75/gallon for diesel felt good after paying $1.01/liter in Canada!
The other good thing is, Bill’s dad is “out of the woods.” He’s still in a lot of pain, but he’s on the road to recovery. He is now complaining about stomach pain and the VA hospital can’t find anything wrong in that area. As I write, they are preparing to ship him back to a nursing home to recover. Let’s hope he doesn’t end up back in the hospital.
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