August 10

To Canada

Amorous mosquito--Mosquitoes have a bad reputation.  When planning this trip all I heard were how bad the mosquitoes  are. Only the female bites.  With that said, there was a particularly amorous female that was trapped in our RV.  She bit me several times during the night.  As much as we are outside, here in mosquito country, we have had only a couple to bother us.  But this one did great until morning when I stopped her.  Splat!!!

We made it to Canada!!!

  After leaving our campground we drove nearly 3 hours to the border.  On the first 30 miles, I’ll bet we did not meet 10 vehicles.  This was really a desolate area.  Both sides of the roads were forest and no homes anywhere around.  Needless to say, there was little to no cell coverage. The road was good and we made really good time.  Then we hit a main road and it was bumpy and really hilly.  I even had to go into 2^nd gear to climb some of the hills.  Crossing the border was relatively easy.  The only issue we had was that we had some pepper spray with us and that is like having a gun on board.  The guards confiscated the two we had and that was it.  Jan was a little disappointed that they kept the spray but she rationed that these were old and she would get more when we came back into the states.

We saw our campground about 20 minutes before we got there. 

The campground was within sight but we had to cross a river to get there.  They had two ferries for us to use to get there.  The trip took about 5 minutes.  Being escorted back to our campsite we had to go on some hills that I wasn’t too sure we would be able to climb.  The RV shifted as low as it could and that almost wasn’t enough.  Tomorrow we go to Prince Edward Island.  Jan spent most of the time while driving up to the border trying to get us a campground for Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.  This is peak season and she was declined several times before she had success.

August 11

PEI (Prince Edward Island)

After our morning walk, we packed up everything and began our last leg to PEI.  For the first 25 miles we drove through sea fog, but it ended as the sun “burned” it off.  The roads are good and there was very little traffic until about lunch time.  As we got close to the coast we could just barely see the “Confederation Bridge” to PEI.  This bridge is 8 miles long and very comfortable to navigate. 

Coming off the bridge we were only a mile from our campground.  Even though this was our last choice, it has turned out to be a great choice.  It is very centrally located with an old railroad bed in the back that has been converted to a trail.  This is going to be a great place to start our days walking.

Visiting the welcome center, we have a game plan for the next couple of days.  But this afternoon we ventured out to see some of their “red sand”

beaches on the south side of the island.  Our trip to view them was absolutely beautiful.  There were fields of wheat, potatoes, and canola all along the way.  The island has beautiful churches too.

  I know it is hard to believe but we found a local eatery where we stopped for supper.  Mighty fine food, if I do say so.  And across the street was an old light house.

  Tomorrow we hope to go up to Cavendish, home of Anne of Green Gables.