DAY 1

The camper is now all set up with lifes essentials, cable TV, water, sewer, hydro (which for some obscure reason is known as electricity down here, hydro is an unknown word). Spent the morning assembling the satellite dish and getting it pointed in the right direction, using approximations when you are trying to point a 75cm dish at a 3m satellite 22400kms away makes for difficult life, got it working on the second attempt though. Managed to get the phone working as well, so the home phone number will now reach us. Lyn’s cell phone doesn’t want to work down here!

After all the hard work it was time to head over to the pool, which was only a tad warmer than the lake, but it had the desired cooling effect, and as only Canadians are brave enough to enter such frigid waters, we had the pool to our selves, reserving loungers with a towel at first light is not a requirement!

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We made it!

We started EARLY, up at 7AM (remember this is us, and we’re on vacation!). We drove for about 5 hours, had lunch and then the final hour to the campsite. Average fuel consumption was 11.8 MPG for a distance of 1881kms / 1175 miles.

The campsite is amazing, one year old, nice flat concrete pads for the rig, and picnic table. Spotlessly clean, and the washrooms  and showers are amazing, again spotlessly clean, ceramic tiled showers, marble sinks etc. I think we are being spoiled here. Temperature pretty close to 30C, A/C is my friend!

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Still heading South

Well, it seems like ~450 miles a day is a good goal for getting from A to B. We left Harrisburg and proceeded to get lost in the road works just south of the city, no big deal just turn around and get back on the correct route…. right. Unfortunately 36ft of trailer on the back severely limits the options, finally found a large shopping mall and dragged it through. Made it down to Fayetteville NC in 8.5 hours of driving and still around 12mpg. At least diesel seems to be getting a little cheaper as we go south it’s now around 84c /litre.

Temperature peaked at 27C, so the A/C got put into use.

Tomorrow should see us at the camp ground

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On the Road

Well this is day one and we have made it as far south as Harrisburg PA. Actual driving time was 8.2 hours or 8 hours 12 minutes for those who need help converting! We covered 685kms (428 miles) Good news is that it is 10 degrees warmer already! The truck pulled really well up the PA hills, even if it did suck back the diesel in doing so, about 5MPG up the steeper ones, but it held it’s speed on all the hills we travelled. Overal consumption was ~ 12MPG (US).

More tomorrow,

Barry

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Whoops

Well, so much for the June update. Now been on two weekend trips! The trailer is great, now looking forward to going south in October

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What is this?

This is a blog where we intend to write about our trailer travels. First episode should be mid June when we go out for the first trip!

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