On The Way Home

 The Canadian Flag in our Camp Site in Canada

Coming across the bridge back into the USA

 An ESSO gas station in Canada

Had to have a picture of the windmills coming home.


 August 18th Saturday - 68 degree
Greetings from Ontario, Canada.  We arrived here last evening, traveling from    
near Flint, Michigan  across route 69, past a large GM assembly plant and the Uniroyal Tire  and  Belle Tire Distributors in to the special gates to enter Canada .

We found the gate to pass through with the motor home very narrow and we had to do some fancy maneuvering to pass through.  We had been told we would  only need our passports to get out of Canada, that was wrong, we needed them to enter also.  Once we were allowed to pass through the gate, we crossed over the bridge and witnessed the great view of the canal that connected Lake Huron and Lake St Clair.  One nice feature of riding in the motor home, is you are up high enough to get a good view of the country side.  The view is much better when you are sitting in the driver’s seat or the co-pilot seat compared to sitting on the sofa or the dining room table, where your view is very limited.  We have tried to trade off positions to allow everyone an advantage of a good view.

Last evening we stayed at N.E.T. Camping Resort in Vineland, Ontario.  We had a pull through lot, it was a pretty site, but we were really crammed in it was expensive compared to past sites.  It cost four loonies (quarters) to take a shower, which was unexpected after paying over $50.00 for one night with our Good Sam discount.  We found that someone played music outside all night long with a very deep base that resonated through our motor home, which did not lend to a good night sleep for those of us without a hearing home.

We did unhook the car and drove into Pelham for a wonderful fish fry last evening.  We found that the money exchange is even at this time.  We paid $14.99 for fish, fixed however we wanted it fixed, garlic mashed red potatoes , coleslaw, dessert (choice of five things), I had rice pudding, Lou decided on gingerbread with a hot vanilla sauce, Preston had a fruit salad, Susie had a peach and blueberry crisp and we all had coffee.  A delightful meal and a sweet waitress.  The restaurant was called The Lazy Loon.  An excellent choice.

Today we traveled GEW from Ontario back into the US.  I was amazed that there are so many ESSO gas stations in Canada and gas is listed as 129.2 per liters, making gasoline over $4.00 per gallon here, our waitress told us that many people go into the states to purchase gasoline and milk and she spoke of milk being in a bag?

I am also amazed at how flat Canada is and the many acres of corn and soybeans, I can not help but think of my father and how he would have loved to have farmed a field such as the ones that I have seen.  The many farmers in Tioga county that have farmed and made a living, really had to work hard to do so and now we see so much of the country side growing up to weeds, sad to witness.

This has been an interesting journey and when we reach home, we will unpack and clean the motor home and get things ready for our next journey and that will be to our square dancing campout this weekend.  I will try and