Episode 26
7/2019
So not all good things happen when you're on the road. Got a call that my mother had passed away. We needed to figure out how to get home. Our choices were to take the RV back, leave the RV and fly back or leave the RV somewhere in Canada and drive the Jeep back. We were in Cape Briton Nova Scotia and needed to get back to New York. We had made friends in Nova Scotia so we gave them a call, we explain to them what happened and asked if we can leave the rig at their house so we could take our toad to new york.
They said absolutely no issue at all. Our friend Andrew explained that Bangor Maine was the halfway point so we planned on spending the night there. Planning the trip back to New York I noticed that Cape Britain Nova Scotia was 17 hours from home. Florida is 22 hours from home. I found this to be very interesting in that I had never been to Nova Scotia before but I've been to Florida dozens of times. On the way down we stopped to visit friends in New Hampshire. We weren't in a big rush because my mother's body needed to be sent to New York from florida. We left Nova Scotia the temps were in the 50s and when we got back to New York and the temps were in the 90s.
After the funeral and dealing with family issues we headed back North in our Jeep. When we got to the border border patrol asked where our RV was. We told him and he said you can't do that, you cannot leave a vehicle in Canada if you're not there. I asked what were our options? He said you can get a temporary Canadian registration. And let us go without any further issues. I went online and I looked up Canadian temporary registrations and could not find any information or forms about it. Very weird. I had brought our bear spray to canada in the rig. And each time I'll rig was searched they never mentioned the bear spray and I'm not sure that they saw it. So I asked this border patrol about the rules for bear spray and he said no problem just as long as it says bear spray on the label if it does not say that then it's considered a weapon. We got back to our friends in Nova Scotia and we stayed with them for a few days. A very bittersweet visit reflecting on Mom's passing. While we were there we experienced donair for the first time, it's kind of like a gyro but a Nova Scotia specialty. It was really good. We went to Terrell and they were having a gay pride celebration. We saw a sign at the library that there was going to be a female impersonator children's story hour. Very interesting. Unfortunately we weren't going to be in that area for that. We said our things and goodbyes to our friends and we headed to blomidon provincial Park which was two and a half hours away from our friend's house. We had heard about this park and wanted to explore the area so we were glad to finally get here. It's located on the Bay of Fundy right across the bay from new brunswick. It was 71° and really muggy I guess Canada was starting to warm up for the summer. But then the wind kicked up a fog rolled in and attempts dropped 10°. Lol. Here's the link to the video we made on how we plan our trips.
https://youtu.be/m17giRxNVs0
We had planned to hike cape split near Blomidon. So I walk to the Jeep to get our day packs and our rigs door was locked. We have a class a so we only have one door to get in. Trish was inside so I asked her to unlock the door. She said... the door isn't locked. We had heard that RV locks to fail pretty frequently. And now ours has joined that club. I took the letter to get to our bunk outside the rig so I can climb up and in through the driver window. After 3 hours of climbing in and out of the rig trying to get this lock off so I can get the door open I finally got it. We drove to a RV store they sold this one got back to the rig and it would not fit. We should have brought the old lock with us. We went back to the store and returned it and they did...