Days 14 -16 Frederickton, NS

Wednesday, June 26th, 2013

Great news!  The ABS warning light and the engine light ( which merely indicated an emissions problem ) have gone out by themselves!  Yes! We hated the idea of taking it to an unknown service station, if we could even find one at all.  So that is really great.

We are staying for the next two days at Heritage Country Camping in Lower Queensbury, NB, about 40 minutes west of Frederickton, New Brunswick's Capital.

It is a small campground on the side of a hill, with grass all around the sites. One thing we have noticed are the amount of people who choose to set there trailers at a campground, and build very elaborate porches and decks.  Their summer home.  Most of the folks live an hour or two away, and "camp" every chance they get.

Day 8- June 19th to Day 16- June 27th

I think I jinxed us again!  I was telling someone that every vacation we have taken, the weather has always been fabulous!  Seattle, Bar Harbor, Newfoundland all had beautiful skies and wonderful temperatures even though most people complain about the weather in these places.  We always seemed to hit it just right.  Why did I have to say that!

Electric car charging station in Fredricton.
 We need these in The Villages for golf carts

Now we are faced with what appears to be an upcoming week or more of cold ( 50 degrees ) with showers and occasional thunderstorms.
We are dying to get outside and get some exercise.  I feel like a slug. We never have to move in our motorhome more than 2 or 3 steps to go from kitchen to bedroom to bath. I have never been this immobile, even when deathly ill.

We were hoping to start getting the exercise that we anticipated, but the weather is rotten.  Brrrr.

Today we drove into Frederickton despite the dreary weather to check out the sights.

Small craft shops located in a Fredricton munitions building.
Very clever use of a historic place

We had a fabulous lunch at the Blue Door Restaurant and Bar which was advertised as one of the top 50 restaurants in Canada. We browsed a few stores, got some fresh vegetables, and headed to Walmart to get a few things. Norm got some local micro-brew to continue his quest of trying everything new in a beer bottle.

Thursday June 27th

Thank goodness these guys are just for "show" I can't
see this team protecting anything.

The rain had stopped, so Norm and I decided to brave the raw, damp, cold day and play a round of golf at Mactaquac Provincial Park.

The course looked gorgeous.  On the way there it started to rain again.  We continued on in order to talk to them and cancel our tee times.  Oh, my goodness.  The parking lot was nearly full. These people are hardy!  No motorized covered golf carts for these people!  Men and woman alike were all out walking in the cold rain donning shorts! Well, not us Floridians. Our blood is too thin, and our sun-baked spirit too has become too weak.





We headed back to our warm, toasty RV, thankful once again we were not one of those many poor souls vacationing in a tent.  We spent the afternoon trying to plan the next phase of our vacation.

Kinda hard to see many sights in all this cold rain

The problem is while wanting to make this vacation footloose and carefree, if there are particular places we want to camp, we need advanced reservations. Especially weekends.

We find this all very challenging.We want to see all there is to see in this region of the world, yet be home before the snow falls.  My new band is starting late August, and my oldest daughter, Laura, is expecting with our first grandchild the first week of November. Somehow I look forward to being involved with the planning of her baby shower.

  How can we possibly know how long we need or want to stay in a location when the things we want to do are so weather dependent?  Can our old and aging bodies really withstand the mountain hikes we dream of doing?  Or those hidden little, charming, out of the way spots we hope to find? And of course the roses I demand to smell along the way? We just can't imagine how most RV'ers roll merrily down the road without having a predetermined destination.  Perhaps the difference is that our destinations are always activity based and for others that is not a priority. I yearn to be more like them, but it is definitely out of  both our comfort zones. Maybe I am not really ready to be "footloose and fancy free".

After a rather amazingly pleasant afternoon of research, we had made plans for the next several weeks.  If the weather clears they should be fairly accurate, if not - all bets are off.