August 24th to 27th

Aug 24th - sunny this morning and our first stop is the Anne Murray Centre in Springhill, N.S. An excellent display of her life and career. On into New Brunswick. I just want to go on the record as saying New Brunswick has the worst roads in the country!! Stop in Moncton, the guys have to check out Magnetic Hill. Well for $5 I don't know... On to Hopewell Rocks and check into an RV Park. Purchase a pass to walk around the rocks another $7 per person and when we get there they are closed so have to park on the road with a hundred other people, and walk two miles to get there!!! Well it is cool and was worth it to get Bay of Fundy mud on my toes! Tides here are pretty amazing.

Aug 25th - Off to Cape Rage, sounds good hey! Quite the road but we get the big rig up there and into the parking lot, oh another $4 each to get out and enjoy the view and check out the fossil beach. Saw a procupine on the road, they are slow! Watched the tide roaring into the channels, quite a change from when we went in to Cape Rage to when we came out. On to Alma, bought some more lobster, then into Fundy National Park, stay at the first campground, very nice not very busy. Good spot to take Skippy for walks. (except for dogs!)

Aug 26th - Rained in the night so foggy and misty this morning. Drive through the fog to Saint John big Carnival Cruise Ship in the harbour. On to New River Provincial Park. After lunch take the hike out on the point and along the beaches. Awesome rocks! Fill our pockets again. Great sandy beach. Sun finally comes out again so we can have dinner outside.

Aug 27th - Sunny this morning and we are off for the US border. Stop on the Canadian side just to ask about all the stuff we have purchased, gifts, wine etc. Beautiful new building just finished last November! Excellent staff member, very nice, very helpful. Away we go to the US side. There of course, "Please stay in your vehicle, give us the keys, do you have any pets in there?" Well I told them we had two cats, and there were three of them so how Skippy got out!!! But Max and Robert were behind us and she saw the guys go in and then the door opened and Skippy came out! Three lanes of traffic, plus the one coming into Canada! and Skippy on the loose. Well bless their hearts they were concerned, and they stopped all traffic until Skip headed into the bush across the road, three guys came after me and him but stopped in the field and had a smoke! I finally caught Skip and got him back in the RV, my legs were shaking and my heart was pumping! That was a scare!! I don't think our fifth got inspected at all, I don't even think they opened the fridge door! On through Maine, N.H. and into Ma. No room in the State Park at Salisbury Beach so into an RV Park $60!!! wow the most expensive we've had. Take a drive through Ipswich and Essex as that's where our forefathers came to America. John Cogswell and Phillip and Mary Code were nieghbours here back in the 1700's I think it was. Found some Cogswell streets. Dark when we head back so stop for dinner then home, all tired we have gained an hour and a half so I guess it's later than we think!