Day 51 A ferry ride to a new destination

Thursday August 1^st 2013

Our trip map from July 23rd to August 1st

Today we leave the beautiful province of Nova Scotia by crossing over the Bay of Fundy by ferry  into St John, New Brunswick ( a short-cut probably saving us two days of driving ).

Norm has become a mechanic!

Since Kejimujucki  only had electrical hookups, we had to really conserve our use of water over the last four days.  On two occasions we used the public showers, but as a result, we had water and sewer room to spare! Just think how long we could go if we didn't bathe at all!  We are still trying to figure out how many days can we camp with no utilities and still be clean and fresh!

While Norm was using the sewer dumping station, I made good use of the time hooking up the car to motorhome.

 One thing we ALWAYS do is to test all indicator and brake lights before we head off down the road.  Well, on this occasion we found that the brake lights in the RV, therefore also in car, were not working again ( it happened in Massachusetts back in June ).

Norm read the manual, found the spare fuse, and wow! He fixed it!  Something must be shorting out this fuse, so we definitely have to have this checked.  Very dangerous!

Norman was very confident as the ferry attendant directed the motorhome and car in tow into the belly of the boat, sandwiching all the cars, motorhomes and semi-tractor trailers inside with literally inches between them!

Boy they sure do pack these rigs tightly!  One tractor trailor
nearly removed out mirror when leaving! I had to stop him
so he could fold his inward!  Yikes!

 We set sail for a three hour ride during which we had a bite to eat, read and watched the bit of scenery.

When we landed we proceeded to Rockwell Park in St John.  This park in one of Canada’s largest municipal parks, and offers a campground, interpretation center, lakes for swimming and boating, an 18 hole golf course, horseback riding, playground and even a zoo!  Plus many hiking trails to explore! We were anxious to see this place.

I must say, Norm and I have only had this motorhome for about a year and half, but have been camping and therefore parking, in a lot of places.  We typically have no trouble backing into very tight and heavily wooded sites.  But give us a site with miles of space and nothing to potential cause great damage, and we make fools of ourselves trying a half dozen times to get into a huge spot!  I can’t figure out why! It was really rather embarrassing, and I hope no one was watching.

Here at Rockwood Park we found a couple of problems that added to our difficulty.  The way the sites were laid out made it so that either our sewer hose would not reach, a gigantic bolder would prevent us from backing in enough, or they had a 50 foot extension cord they expected us to use.(the manual said we should never use an extension cord unless it is 50 amp so being the “maintenance Natzi” I didn’t want to do it ).  We therefore took forever finding a site that would work, and us finally getting into it. 

We finally got settled barely before dark, relaxed a few minutes and went to bed.