Not all fun and games

This is the day we had today.It feels like a road show. We left Woodstock, NB this morning. We had a reservation at Cosy Cabin RV Park and when we got there yesterday afternoon, there was no one there to show us to our spot so I called the number and a lady came in a golf cart to show us the way. Fortunately I had a hunch that we shouldn’t follow her with the truck but to walk to see the spot first. Good thing. She wanted us to go down a very short but very steep hill and turn 90 degrees around a building with RVs parked all around the open side with 50 feet of truck and 5th wheel. No turning radius for the truck or trailer. Last I saw, the truck won’t go around a 90 degree angle around a building dragging the 5th wheel. And we would have lost the back end of the trailer on that little hump. I was pissed. Needless to say, we didn’t stay there.

Fortunately Yogi Bear’s Jellystone Park was just up the road so that’s where we stayed again. We had to listen to the water canon shoot off for about 4 hours but got used to it.Then this morning on the way to Quebec, our truck started dragging on the uphill (and not radical hills, either) – 1st gear and almost not making it. It felt like the tranny was slipping or something. We limped in to Camping Transit which was our stay for the night at Levis, just across the river from Quebec City. Good place for us to have problems with the language barrier. Fortunately they speak good English here.

We had to phone Lubrico (our warranty for the truck) and they told us we had to drive an hour and a half to a tranny place. I told them no, we would take it to the Dodge dealer 10 minutes from us. Camping Transit set that up for us and there was one English speaker at the Dodge dealer.

Unbelievably we have been driving from Peace River to Newfoundland to Nova Scotia to PEI to Nova Scotia to New Brunswick to Quebec with the wrong air filter in our truck. Crappy Tire put the one for a gas engine in instead of diesel – they look different – how can you make that mistake when you take one out and put the other in. Well, it finally packed it in on the Trans Canada Highway in QUEBEC of all places! I was so stressed from thinking it was the tranny that I got an ocular migrane at the dealership. Still don’t feel like I’m fully recovered.

Hopefully it really is just the air filter (stupid Canadian Tire!! they did that twice in Peace River, first in May and then in June when we got there from Whitehorse and that tire drama). We will find out tomorrow. Heading for Brockville, Ontario, then Niagara Falls for the weekend then West, West, West.