Hello, everybody, and welcome to RV podcast episode
510.
This one, being released on August 14th
2024. I'm Mike Wendland and this is my
lifelong traveling companion and my bride,
Jennifer. Hello, bride Jennifer. Hello, husband Mike and
hello dog Beau. Beau is with us here
in the RV.
We are actually, as we record this, on
Cape Breton Island Nova Scotia,
and we would be
outside. However, it is extremely
windy. It is,
one of those wind advisory days of 40
mile an hour winds,
and this is the remnant of, that hurricane
that swept through,
the
gulf up the Gulf Coast and then the
eastern seaboard, this past week. So, we had
a little bit of rain, but a lot
of wind today. So we're inside. Otherwise, you'd
hear nothing but wind noise. And,
it's it's, it's nice if you hide behind
RVs, but,
that's what
that's what we have done. We are making
a great windshield for our neighbors. We are.
So,
this episode, we are going to offer up
a bunch of tips from Jen and me
and then from a bunch of other RVers
that we, are with this on this fantasy
RV tour of the Canadian Maritimes
about,
long distance RV travel. Not necessarily on an
organized tour like this, but for a long
distance trip where you are going to be
gone for multiple weeks.
Some tips and actually some of these tips
apply no matter how long you are in
the camp. But some handy tips that I
think,
you'll all pick up a couple of them
even if you're experienced. And if you're a
newbie, you'll get lots of ideas, and that's
coming up in a little bit. We have
the social media buzz
and,
then, we've got an extended version of, RV
Questions that we'll get to at the end
of it.
So that's what's coming up in this episode.
How's our trip been? Our trip has been
wonderful. It's starting to wind down now, and,
27 day trip in 1 week. Nicely. It'll
be over. Actually, we're done Saturday.
Can you believe Saturday,
as this is being released on August 14th?
On August 17th, the trip ends,
and we'll be up in Prince Edward Island,
Nova Scotia, and we'll then have to make
our way back,
to our home in Southwest Michigan,
or maybe not. Maybe we'll just stay up
here.
We've had just a great time in the
Canadian Maritimes. They are indeed,
a bucket list.
And hats off to our friends at Fantasy
RV Tours for, organizing this. Most of these
are RV lifestyle friends and followers that we're
traveling with.
It's been a it's been a great experience,
isn't it? It has been a super experience.
These folks are so nice, and I wonder
if it's because they're
people that follow us that they're so extra
nice or what it is. But,
this is, like, encouraging to travel this way
because you're with people. You come back to
the same base. You go to have adventures
together,
and you become good friends. Yes. It's amazing
how,
in just a short period of time like
this, you do become friends, and we have
indeed.
It's time to check-in with Wendy Boyer.
And Wendy
always has some good information to share as
she monitors
our social media
folks, and, you're gonna learn something. On the
RV social media buzz.
Hi, everybody.
Over in our rv lifestyle communities
general discussion space, we recently had a post
from Kathy. Now Kathy's camping in Oregon, and
she's having this problem she's never had before,
and it's of these bugs creeping into her
RV,
Dozens and dozens and dozens of them. She
said they're elm seed bugs, and she doesn't
know if they're trying to escape the heat
or if it's the smoke from the fires
that are in that area, but they keep
trying to get into her rig
by the dozens and dozens and dozens. So
she'll vacuum them up and they're right there
again. They're crawling on her while she sleeps.
She says she's starting to affect her mental
and physical health and asked if anyone had
any ideas that would help.
Lots of people responded, but 2 responses that
really caught my eye, one was from Chris.
He suggested
that she buy a fumigator.
He said this puts a smoke in the
air, so none of that sticky residue that
a fogger does, and it kills the bug.
He said that he's had different insect issues
in the south, and so he will set
the fumigator, leave for a few hours with
his pets, come back, air the whole rig
out really good, the bug's gone, and there's
been no issues, you know, health issues for
himself or his pets, and it's worked great.
Another one was from Doug. Doug lives in
Oregon dealing with the same bug getting into
his house, and he said one thing that
helped him was to put sticky tape all
around the windows,
and that's helped, keep them out. So a
couple ideas there for Kathy, and Kathy, I
hope you got some help with that.
Also in our community,
in the RV apps and tools place, we
had a question from Jojo. Now Jojo's a
new RVer, just got a class
a, planning to go full time,
and so she asked the group, what is
the one app that you would recommend?
And a couple people like Brenda and, Mark
said, you know, we don't use just one
app. We use a couple,
and some of the apps that came up
quite a bit in this thread were RV
Life Pro,
Adventure Genie,
RV Parkie,
Spot Tonight, and I Overlander. So if you're
looking for some good apps, you might wanna
check out that space.
And then over in our RV lifestyle
Facebook group, we had a recent post from
Glenise. Now Glenise and her husband have a
7 year old golden retriever,
and they love to bring their dog with
them when they go on trips and travel,
but she said they were getting really frustrated
with the pet policies of places like Airbnb.
So they were considering getting a travel trailer
so they could still travel but include their
dog. And so she sent this post in
the group saying, has anyone else done this?
What do you think? And as you can
imagine, the majority of the group, and we're
talking something like 460
responses
last I looked, said, this is great. Bring
your dog. You won't regret it. RVing and
camping with your pets goes hand in hand.
Many people, in fact, like Lisa said, that's
the whole reason they got an RV was
so they could include their dog with them
in the RV lifestyle.
And she said they were recently at a
campground, and every single camper had their dog
with them.
So that was fun to read. Now some
people did say, you know, there are campgrounds
that are more dog friendly than than others,
and there are places you can't bring your
dog, like, you know, let's face it. National
parks aren't always
the most, pet friendly. So there are some
limitations, but by far, the majority said it's
it's works out great. And what I loved
about this post is people got so excited
they started sharing pictures of their dog living
the RV lifestyle. So we had dogs, you
know, going out for a walk in the
campground,
hanging out in their RV, sitting outside the
rig by the picnic table. It was just
really fun to read, so if you are
a pet lover, check that one out.
And that's it for me this week. I'm
Wendy Boyer, and I'll see you on the
RV lifestyle community or Facebook group.
Alright, Wendy. Thanks a lot, and we wanna
invite everybody, if you haven't already, to please
think about joining our RV lifestyle community.
Obviously, we have a very big Facebook group,
430 +1000
members there. It can get pretty noisy. Things
can get, out of control sometimes with that
many people, and that's why we started the,
RV lifestyle community. And you find that. You
can join. It's absolutely free. Communitydot
rvlifestyle.com.
It's a safe place. It's a friendly place.
Don't be embarrassed about asking questions. You'll get
friendly people who will really help you. Easy
to find stuff.
Please think about joining that if you haven't
already.
Alright. Time now for our RV conversation
of
the week. And this week,
we're gonna talk about some tips for long
distance travel.
And long distance travel is a little different
than just a weekend or maybe a a
brief holiday trip. You gotta think a little
bit further in advance.
So whatever you can figure out ahead of
time, like care of your
engine on your truck or your car or
whatever you're towing with, your motor home, whatever
you can do ahead of time will prevent
any grief down the road. So get your
oil changed.
If you have a diesel, top it off
with DEF.
Make sure your maintenance is all done.
Check your tires.
Check the torque on your your tires on
both the RV or a towable that you
have.
We recommend using a tire pressure monitoring system.
Look over everything, particularly your towers your tires
at the start of the trip, and then
every day that you're on the road, check
it out as well. And know your RV's
maximum
occupant and cargo carrying capacity. That's the OCCC.
Or how,
much food you can bring, clothing, lawn chairs,
ground mats, camping gear, and How much you
weigh, your pets weigh,
how much propane. People forget about that. How
much propane weighs.
And, you know,
you forget how much water
adds to it. And for that reason,
we don't recommend that you
fill your freshwater tank unless you know you're
going to be just boondocking,
and you can't get water wherever you're gonna
boondock.
We don't recommend going with a a full
tank. And that's because water weighs £8.2
per gallon.
And,
when you think about it, most class b's
have, you know, class b, class c from
20 to 40 gallons.
So,
that's, like, a 164
to 328
gallons or or, pounds.
6
164 to £328.
That's a lot of weight.
And if you have a class a or
a big 5th wheel,
those are 75 to a 100 gallons, and
a full tank on those of water can
weigh 6 15 to 8 20
pounds. So,
taking fresh water with you,
is is not a good idea. Maybe enough
just to flush toilets and wash your hands
and stuff on the road, but if you're
at a campground where you can get water,
use use your city water and don't travel
with a full freshwater tank. How many times
have we seen
freshwater tanks that have broken off? Well, it
does happen, and you don't want it to
happen to you because you know how bumpy
and dreadful some of those roads can be.
So be aware of what everything wear weighs
because it adds up faster than you think.
Otherwise, you're not gonna be able to eat
because you can't add any more weight. Not
to
we recommend, by the way, not driving all
day. Don't do record trips. Lots of people
have different
ideas of how far you should drive. Our
personal rule is, we want to be in
place by 3:30 in the afternoon, if at
all possible.
And we don't wanna drive any more than
330 miles. Now, do we keep that all
the time? No. Do we do a much
better job than we did before?
Yes. And something you might not think about.
Don't be one of those people that likes
to see how far you can drive before
you have to get gas.
Try to drive on that top half.
And don't get yourself in a situation
where you're, oh, boy. What do I do
now? And that's easy to have happen particularly
out west, but in other parts of the
country as well, especially if you have diesel.
Drive on the top half of your gas.
We can get to the half of half
of tank.
Go gas. Again. Yeah.
Other things, you know,
these are kind of rookie information, but, we
see this all the time, and it gives
RVers a bad rep. Don't hog the passing
lane.
Now, I will say there are times when
you don't have a big choice. Sometimes, you
know, on a 2 lane road,
the right hand lane is so beat up
and filled with potholes,
and the passing lane is not as bad.
That's understandable,
but you're gonna still get people mad as
they pile up behind you.
And
don't forget to check the local news and
the weather and,
road conditions. You need an app, something like
waves or something to help you so that
you don't find yourself in a situation that
you don't need to be in? All the
apps, Google Google Maps,
Apple Maps,
Waze,
do a pretty good job of alerting you
to hazards along the way.
We prefer Waze.
One of the things we like about WEEs
in Canada is it
will flag you, it will show you your
speed limit in miles per hour rather than
kilometers. And
then you have to do a little math
so you can figure it out because they
are different.
But it helps with ways, and then if
you go over the speed limit, it kinda
flashes
red, and you know that you're violating it.
But Waze is kind of our go to
app out there. Now I bet all of
you have an emergency road kit,
but
are there more things that you could add
to that kit that would help make you
safer in case,
something happened. Like yeah. You have flares and
flashlights and overalls and gloves and rain gear
and tools. But have you thought about a
reflective
vest or jacket?
Something that will help people see you.
And speaking of
potential problems,
make sure that you have your road service
and your insurance
phone numbers and policy numbers, all that
on your phone,
in your wallet,
in the dashboard of your vehicle,
always carry that with you. Now there are
lots of tips about packing that we can
pass along, but in general
Okay. In general, try not to take too
many clothes.
It's harder now that we have a big
rig because there's more space. And you think,
well, maybe I could use that. Maybe I
could use this. It's easier when you have
very little space because then you really gotta
boil it
down. But, think about what you're taking. What
do you really need to take?
And,
try to bring clothes that don't need to
be ironed.
I brought along this trip a steamer that
I have so that I can and close-up
a bit. Because some of the things that
are cotton,
they have to be ironed.
And, we've got a couple favorite things. I
keep trying to tell him, don't wear that
shirt.
But he does because he loves it. But,
think about your appearance. How can you make
it as simple as possible?
Now we have been really lucky because, this
is the 1st trip we've traveled,
with our own washer dryer. We put a
washer dryer in, earlier this spring.
Oh, my.
That is a game change. In fact, we're
doing washer dry we're not doing it right
now. Now
that means,
now and we're hooked up to 30 amp
instead of 50, which we normally are in
this big 5th wheel, but the dryer works
fine on 30 amps. We've been using it
all across Canada.
It's a combo washer dryer. It's vented outside,
but we do usually 1 or 2 loads
every day.
And,
it's been it's been really great, hasn't it?
Yes. It would be better to have a
queen-size bed than a king, but we have
a king.
So if you like your sheets perfect, not
wrinkled at all, you'll have to Good luck.
To, go to a hotel. Get some wrinkles
or else,
press them to get those wrinkles out.
But what a gift it is. I mean,
it's an expensive
luxury.
Bring, if you're doing laundry in campgrounds, bring
your own and even if it's your own,
obviously, bring your own laundry soap and detergent.
And at the campground, we have seen on
this trip that we're in with a lot
of other people, there's kind of rush hour
at the laundry rooms. I mean, we are
26
rigs,
and we stop, and almost everybody has to
do laundry. And since most of us are
older, we get up early in the morning.
So it's an early morning thing. So it
becomes
a little bit of a test of your
patience.
And there are trips and things scheduled that
you wanna do, so it becomes a little
bit of a challenge getting your,
washing done.
And something else, as soon as you get
to the campground,
find out what hours their machines are available.
They might be 24 hours, which is awesome,
but they might stop at 6 or 7
or 8, and you can't do any laundry
at that time. And, also,
you need probably coins.
And in Canada, that's Canadian coins.
And other places in the States, you know,
our coins are,
I think really now, they want you to
use a credit card,
which,
credit cards and other games Yeah. Work most
of the time. Actually, credit cards out in
Canada work great. That's we haven't we've had
very little need for any Canadian cash up
here because we just use credit cards. Yeah.
It's wonderful.
If you're gonna cook,
in your RV,
cook as much as you can in advance.
True. We met a couple here
last Sunday, and they spent the whole day.
It was a free day. They spent the
whole day cooking, but they were cooking the
meals for each of the days during the
rest of the week. So that the rest
of the trip, they don't have to fuss
over
food, and they're not gonna be like the
Wendland household. Shall we have grilled hamburger, grilled
chicken Or a hotdog.
We'll just keep that going. Eating out is
really costly. And No matter where you are.
It takes time, costs a lot. Yep. And
it's not good for you. And you'll find,
you know,
half the restaurants you pick are not as
good as you had hoped. So it does
so much better than than bringing it all.
A couple of last tips, and then we
wanna hear from we're gonna introduce you to
a whole bunch of folks who will share
their tips.
Travel with a dog or a pet.
Always have their vet records with you, all
of them up to date. In fact, we
make multiple copies. One that we can provide
if we have to give it to a
vet. One we keep in the RV.
And,
always carry Don't leave home without it. Always
carry a poop bag with you. In fact,
I put 1 in each pocket.
It's the first thing I load up every
every morning is, is poop bags. I didn't
realize what a round of laughter was caused
when I said something about bow. I said,
this is a 2 bagger. Everybody's like, oh,
I'm happy they have little dogs. Yep. Yep.
Alright.
One last tip.
Okay.
Let people know where you are.
Schedule time with loved ones, friends,
somebody to let them know where you are
in case you need to be reached.
You might be just fine, but there might
be something else in your life that you
need to be told to be aware of.
And and they should always know where you
are and where you're expected to be next.
That's really a big part. Alright. Those are
our tips. But,
there are so many other things that we
are going to tap into some crowd sourcing
here.
And you'll meet some of the people that
we are traveling with. And, we've asked them
to share their trips about long distance RV
travel.
And,
here they are back to back. On the
road a long time for
dependable Internet,
get Starlink.
Starlink. Starlink.
Check with the local people. You could do
that at a grocery store, you could do
it at a gas station,
you could do it at a laundromat,
but they're gonna give you some hidden gems
that you would normally not go
to. When you're on a long trip, don't
think you have to pack every single thing
you're going to need because you can buy
things along the way. I would say look
ahead and check where you're going to see
if there's any sites to see along the
way because the the traveling is just as
good as the final destination. And you might
be surprised what you might see.
So not only look ahead, but, if you're
the passenger,
look for signs. There could be a some
a turn off somewhere that you didn't expect
that you thoroughly enjoy. We like to travel
200 miles and be in the campground by
2 PM.
Why?
So we have time to relax,
explore the area a little bit, and then,
early night and on the road the next
day. So even if there's something that you
must get to, you budget enough time in
advance to get there at 200 miles a
day. Correct.
Even, try to
plan for some of those unexpected things like
traffic or construction
or some something like that that comes up.
Definitely have
an extension cord
and your extra
dog bones. Yeah.
I like to keep them in a bin
that's covered, and I label it.
I also have another one for
that we keep the big power cord in.
It's actually a cat litter box.
A place for everything and a play and
everything a place. Yeah. And then we keep
the big portable post and surge
protector
in
here.
That's what we do with our cable.
So long distance travel tips.
Something will always go wrong.
Something happened to you, and what's the tip
we can learn from it? Well, I think
the the deal is to to really not
panic. Don't get too excited about
it. You can probably fix it yourself.
And if you can't,
you can always get a technician to come
out and help you. But everything seems to
work out and you learn something every trip.
Now you learn something just now. I see
you messing around with a couple of things
you're up on the roof. What happened? Well,
a bolt came out of the, air conditioner
and it was rattling around and you could
hear it from inside. You were on a
very bumpy road. Yes. Yeah. Yes. It was
very bumpy and and one of those bolts
came out and I was able to just
put it back in and it was great.
What did you think it was? You thought
it was a little I didn't know when
I went up there and took off the,
the cover, but when I looked at the
cover, I saw the bolt. And I said,
there's supposed to be 2 bolts,
and there was only what? So
And the other one was just in there?
Just laying in there and it was rattling
around. So before you go on your long
distance trip, take a really short trip.
Make sure everything in your rig works the
way you want it to work,
but do it with enough time so that
you can fix the things that are not
working,
such as,
in our case, it turned out the solar
controller failed,
and we had to fix that. We it's
just a fuse, but we would have been
deep trouble if we hadn't fixed it before
we thought. And you didn't wanna find that
in the middle of a trip? No.
Okay. For me, I guess, a couple of
very important ones are, water regulator, pressure regulator,
to protect you from any ultra high pressure
at a campground that you might not realize,
could damage your
plumbing and or get a leak.
The other thing would be the,
surge protector on the electricity.
Haven't used them a lot until recently, but
one of the campgrounds on this trip, we
plugged it in, and it would not let
us use it not let us plug in
there because there was no ground.
So, we moved to a different campsite because
If you had not had that that,
that management system Yep. Your electrical plug, you
could've been in big trouble. Yeah. We wouldn't
have known until we were until it was
too late.
What a wealth of information.
Yeah. You've got you know what would have
been fun? To ask everybody how many years
they've been RVing.
We probably could have had
couple 100 years of RVing wisdom. Yes. We
could just make up a number and say
2 centuries worth of
it probably is close to that. Yeah. There
were there's some great great great advice from
our folks.
So,
that's, that's what we got for you in
terms of RV travel tips. If you have
something that you think we should share or
you wanna, comment on anything you heard,
you can send us an email
mikeandjenrvlifestyle.com.
Alright. RV Questions
of the Week
And, we've we're gonna try and do, 3
or 4 of them this week instead of
our normal 1 or 2. So Okay. We
got a lot of people who are still
asking about, this trip and what it's been
like because many people wanna do a Canadian
maritime strip. And It's amazing how many people
this is on their bucket list. Yep. It
wasn't ours. Wasn't ours for years. It was.
Now this question is, we looked into cell
phone service in the Maritimes.
It looks like purchasing a local,
SIM is the best option, and this is
from Dave. A local SIM card.
I don't know, Dave, if anybody here has
done that or has had a need to
do that.
We have,
Verizon as my provide my provider and Jen's
provider,
and,
we have their international plan which allows, stuff.
It does limit data,
slows it down,
but we have Starlink.
And so even if we're getting slow data
from Verizon,
we can use Starlink for Wi Fi phone
calls. And, we've not missed a beat yet.
We've had just rock solid snarling conditions.
So,
try buy it. If that's what you're comfortable
doing, getting a a SIM card from a
Canadian provider,
go for it. But I don't think I
don't think anybody in our trip has done
that, and no one seems to have, have
felt the need to do so. So,
that's that's as best I can give you.
We sure haven't, and, you know,
I'm not I'm not I'm I'm all about
saving money, but I didn't have to spend
anything extra, and
phone service works pretty good.
Now our second question,
are there shopping, repair places for your RV,
services,
and the comforts of civilization? And this is
from Dallas. I wonder where Dallas lives. Yeah.
Well,
yes. There's there's plenty of all of that
here. This is
not much different than traveling in the states,
really.
Think of the of a resort area,
clean air,
but, we've stayed in the campgrounds have been
fine.
Maybe there haven't been as much 50 amp
service as we're used to in the US,
but that's not been an issue at all.
Even though it's been extremely warm up here,
all of the comforts of civilization
are here and more so,
some things are just more convenient. I mentioned
credit cards and handling stuff. Everybody has the
chip cards, and,
it's very efficient.
Shopping,
you know, we're not big shoppers, but you
we've gone we've already found a couple of
favorite supermarkets that are chains up here. Great
Atlantic is one we go to a lot.
Mhmm. And
being here, you're gonna hear a lot of
French. If you took French in high school
or college,
brush on it brush up on it a
little bit before you come here because you
hear, I bet you half the people are
speaking French. About half the yeah. I would
say,
Everything is bilingual.
But that's the thing. They're all bilingual, so
they also speak English. But it is it
is,
nice to hear French. It really is. It
makes you realize, hey, I'm someplace else. Like,
when you go on a tour,
they'll
they'll be both explanations in English and then
again in French. As to repair places, we've
had 2 people here who've had, some,
broken leaf springs in their vehicles.
It's nothing to do with the roads. The
roads are fine.
It's just that, you know, they had bad
springs. But interesting that 2 out of the
26 had them. Both one of them,
well, in fact, both of them had repair
shops that were able to fix them within
just a little bit of time. 1 guy
took his unit to a welder. The guy
came out in the parking lot, welded it
back together, fixed it for him,
and, the same thing with another one. He
went to a dealer, and he went to
a repair shop. He found 1, and they
had exact the exact springs that he needed
replacement, and he was back on the road
in an hour.
So and we have seen mobile RV techs
in the campgrounds,
so
none of the none of the issues that
you you might think. It is not as
remote
as one would think. Yes. There are some
wide open
territories here, but the roads are in great
shape. I would say in better shape,
by and large, than they are in the
US.
Wouldn't you agree with that, the roads? Yeah.
We were in a national park yesterday, and
the roads were fantastic in the park. We
did the Cabot Trail, and, there was a
couple of rough spots. They had a real
rough winter up here last year, and there
were some frost heaves, but they're fixing those.
But in general, the roads,
even way up here in the Maritimes,
better than in the US.
Alright.
Okay. Now here's another question. Have there been
any disappointments or surprises on your maritime trip?
And that's from Patty.
Disappointments.
Maybe a little bit with the Cabot Trail,
but it was only because the weather wasn't
as cooperative. We drove the Cabot Trail, and
you'll see that in the next YouTube video
we released in Nova Scotia.
Just let's just one of the most iconic
road trips anywhere in North America, gorgeous trails,
but the weather didn't cooperate. You know, that
hurricane remnant was still there. We had gray
skies,
So, you know, when the skies are gray,
the water is gray, and it's sometimes hard
to get that, you know, the beautiful blue
of the Atlantic,
as you make those curves.
So that this is weather disappointments, but,
but but that's about it.
Surprises,
I think what Jennifer mentioned at the top,
how quickly you become make new friends.
That that's true. It it's like instant friendships
popping up all over the place, but that's
what our viewers are like. They like to
share life experiences.
They ask questions about where they should go
and where they've been to help others.
But, you know, each night,
we all gather around and outside
usually outside multiple RVs. There may be a
group of 5 or 6 over here and
a couple over there, and everybody wanders about
and talks. And,
when we do go out to eat, you
find somebody to, sit with, and, you know,
you go with another couple of people and
but close friendships that you can make in
a trip like this that I think will
carry on for the rest of their RVing
lives. Don't you? Mhmm. Yep.
Alright. Let's do one more question,
and, and we'll take,
take this one. Okay. How has Beau been
doing on this long trip? Sasha and Ted.
Sasha and Ted.
Beau has been a really good boy,
but I will say
it's probably been hard on him. Some of
our days,
are spent touring, and they're like 5 and
6 hours long.
And dogs can't come on the bus, and
they can't come on the organized tours,
so Bo has to be left back here
in the RV.
Fortunately, we've all had air conditioning, and he
we've he's been comfortable.
It stresses him to be left that long,
and it stresses us because he's always at
the back of our mind. We went today,
for example, to see an awesome,
fortress, the fortress at Louisbourg,
not far from here, a re recreation of
a French fort that the British destroyed in
the early 1700.
And we couldn't bring Beau there, so we
had to leave him here for 4 or
5 hours.
And, it's very windy, and the RV was
making noises. You know? The wind went howling
out there, and he was stressed. I can
say that, normally, Bo won't speak to us.
He's mad at us when we leave him,
but he was so thrilled to see us
because Yeah. Because he was afraid because, you
know, the unit was shaking. Yeah. He was
mighty glad to see us. But it's been
challenging. Dogs are
very welcome in Canada,
but, on an organized trip like this where
you're gone for protracted periods of time and
stuff. Some of the folks have hired dog
sitters.
We have not done that. We're told in
the next couple of campgrounds we're going, there
will be, some
friends of our wagon masters,
the leaders of the tour,
who have offered to, watch dogs and walk
dogs for free pool, which is great, and
I'm sure we'll take advantage of that.
But,
I'm glad we bought bro, but, and we've
we've always managed to find places where he
can run and have have a little bit
of of exercise, but,
it's not been as much fun for Bo
as it has been for Jen and me.
And, I think a disappointment might be that
I was expecting cooler weather,
but it's warm up here and humid, but
it's warm and humid, I think, just about
everywhere. 80 81 degrees right now as, as
we record this, and it's been in the
eighties
most days, which is very unusual.
Now this morning, it got foggy as we
got near the ocean to see this At
the Fort. French Fort. Yeah.
And, actually, it added to the atmosphere Yeah.
Of course. The drama. You'll see that in,
in our next video, which will be on
Nova Scotia. I I I'd hope to have
had it this week for you, but, we're
so busy,
actually creating content, going out and seeing stuff,
and taking advantage of the organized activities on
this tour that I I wasn't able to
get it edited.
So we'll start editing it,
over the next week, and I'm not sure
when it'll be ready. But when we get
it, we'll let you know. We're working on
it. Yeah. So we have a couple more
coming. We have one on all of Nova
Scotia, and then we'll do a separate one
on Prince Edward Island. And, we'll probably do
one on our return
as well.
Do you have a question? Do you have
a comment? We'd love to hear from you.
Mikeandjen@rvlifestyle.com.
Alright. That's it for episode 510.
When the next episode is released, we will
be somewhere on the way back home from
the Maritimes
to southwestern Michigan, and we'll be coming to
you from the road. Thanks for watching. Happy
trails.