Thursday - July 19, 2007

John was glad he had hooked up last night as it started to rain about the time we went to bed and rained on and off all night. It finally quit about 7:30 and the rest of the day has been much better than was forecasted. We didn’t have any more rain and have had sun off and on all day so we can’t complain.


We left about 9 this morning and are now at Arm of Gold RV Park at Sydney, it is about 5 minutes to the ferry so will be a short run on Monday morning. We have to be there by 8:30 so will probably leave here about 7:45 just to give us lots of extra time and be there a bit earlier than suggested. I guess we can sit in the trailer and wait so it shouldn’t be too bad. There was some lovely scenery on the drive here and we are hoping the weather won’t be too bad the next couple of days so we can do Fortress Louisburg, some of the Cabot Trail etc.


We finally have wi-fi so I have been getting caught up while John has been getting us set-up and now he is washing off the front of the trailer as it is absolutely filthy. You aren’t supposed to wash trailers here but the car/trailer wash isn’t working so I guess it won’t be too big a problem to wash it on our site as he is only using a bucket, not the hose.


When we checked in I wanted to pay with Visa and the fellow was having trouble putting it through so told me to come back in a while when the owners were there and would be able to do it, so back I went and it still wouldn’t go through. I used their phone as visa is an 800 number and called to see what the problem was. After answering numerous questions to identify myself they said there had been a number of fuel charges on our bill and they had been trying to call us to see if our card had been lost or stolen. To make a long story short I told them where we are, where we are going and approximately how long we would be away and the fellow said he would make a note on our account of that. I also gave him our cell phone number in case they want to get in touch with us again. It is nice to know that they check up on unusual items and put a stop on the card in case there is anything wrong. I told him that there would be many fuel bills as we are doing a lot of traveling and pulling a 35’ trailer to boot!!