Huron, OH......................>

Randolf, NY

Cooperstown, NY

Pownal, VT

Our first stop westbound was Friday night in Pownal, VT so we can add Vermont to our RV state map. We overnighted with Stan & Connie, it was fun (sarcastic word) taking the secondary roads across NH & VT. The mountains are just hills compared to out west but the ups & downs are short but steep and you can't get much speed up before climbing. One took us down to 20mph, the slowest we have every climbed.

The second stop was in Cooperstown, NY Saturday & Sunday nights to see Bill & Judye Teetz at the Mid Atlantic chapter rally of HitchHikers International. We had an exciting moment when we turned onto NY route 20 and BANG.....a clearance warning sign of 12'8". We are 13'4". Stan had also made the turn so we stopped traffic so I could back up and cut through a lot to avoid the low clearance. Saturday night the six of us went to a BBQ place called Brooks that Bill has been going to since high school, it was good! Spending the night in NY completed our goal to spend at least one night in our RV in all the lower 48 states. Mission accomplished in 4 years & 3 months. Sunday we attended a potluck at the HitchHiker rally.

Monday morning we bid farewell to Stan & Connie before pulling out. We have been with either (or both) Mel & Dee and Stan & Connie since May in Washington DC. We made the 300+ mile trip to Randolf, NY to spend Monday night.

Tuesday night was in Huron, OH after 200 uneventful miles. The way it should be!

Travel time is here

We are now headed to Michigan with a 2 night stop in New York for a rally with 3 travel days before and after the rally stop. Today we made it 264 miles to New Hampshire. We are in a nice small 20 site CG with excellent WiFi so I can get caught up on the blog. We are on a hill overlooking a pond and as I sit here in my recliner with the window open there is a gentle rain falling and the bull frogs are croaking. Nice.

The lady from the CG has a surveillance camera watching for incoming RV's, good that she did. Stan & I had an obstacle course between a car, pylons & the office buildings to get in here. The lady came rushing out of the office to guide us between the buildings, she was very helpful. Now, if I can only get out of here tomorrow in one piece!

After we set up we went to a golf course that was recommended for lunner.....lunch & dinner. It was pretty good, on the way back we filled up with diesel....$3.90, cheapest we've seen it in a month.

Ain't no moose in Maine!

The bottom pictures are of our site in Medway Maine. President Obama, Senators Stabenaw & Levin & Representative Walburg all screwed up and let Judy & I return to the good ole USA! I guess they all want to hear from me some more.

If you click on the picture of our truck to enlarge it you can see the stand off between Patches and one of the CG rabbits. She had several standoffs with them during the 3 days we were there. We were waiting for Stan & Connie to catch up after their Bay of Fundy stop.

Do you like the nice pictures at the top? Do you see the moose? No? Well neither did we! We did have a pleasant 3 or 4 hour pontoon ride around the Maine woods looking for them. There ain't no moose in Maine!

Bye bye Canada

The caravan is over, it ended Friday morning but we stuck around for 2 more days. This is our last Canadian campsite in Moncton, NB. Stan & Connie went to the Bay of Fundy to check the tides out but we passed & started back. We'll link up together in Maine.

Puffins & eagles abounding at Bird Island

Hey......how did this bugger get in here?

Judy & Connie wanted to see Puffins so who are Greg & Stan to stand in their way? So....off to Bird Island we go. It was a 45 minute trip by boat to & from the island and we spent 2+ hours putting around the two islands. So we saw

Atlantic Puffin, Razorbill, Black-Legged Kittiwake, Great Cormorant, Black Guillemot, Bald Eagle, Great Black-Backed Gull, Herring Gull, Double Crested Cormorant, & a Grey Seal. Plus a visiting Osprey.

Saturday, our last day here bid us farewell by raining and not getting above 60 degrees.

Bell Museum & short move

The caravan went to Fort Louisburg but Judy & I didn't want to do all the walking and it would have been like Williamsburg or Greenfield Village so we went to Baddeck & Alexander Graham Bell's museum. Bell spent time here & build a rather large home as he & the misses liked the area. This is where he worked in the hydroplane, kites & a flying machine to show the world his telephone invention wasn't just a lucky accident. The last picture shows a replica of his hydroplane that held a water speed record of 118mph for 10 years. Not my best picture. We decided to stay in Little Bras D'Or two more days to avoid finding CGs on a weekend; it's busy up here with all the RV caravans and locals coming out for their short camping season. The bridge picture is from a scenic outlook, we will cross the bridge & drive up this 4 mile long hill that climbs 1200 feet when we leave Sunday.

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Cabot Trail

Inside St Peter's Catholic Church, patron saint on fishermen. Outsie is above!

Today we spent 9 hours touring the Cabot Trail. This is a 185 mile loop around the island and through the Cape Breton Highlands National Park. We didn't travel the complete 185 miles but quite a bit of it. You can see that Canada also has it's share of wacko people doing their own "artsy" thing. Each "person" had a story attached & a name.