It's getting down blast off time pretty soon. We should be hitting the road by the end of April. We have renter's coming in to the house on May 1 so that's a pretty good motivator. In the past week we've put new tires on Barefoot, changed the oil, etc. she's going to be "detailed" this week. We bought a 2009 Toyota Corolla to tow behind. The plan is to find a nice park and set up camp for a few days and then do day trips. This should make the "touring" part of the journey more fun and certainly a lot less stressful than driving BC through towns and looking for parking spaces. Starting tomorrow we'll be working on loading her up and getting her all organized. The plan is to be gone for FIVE months so it entails a little more forethought than before. This trip, just to Sydney, Nova Scotia will entail about 5800 miles, but at the moment the plan is to go on to Newfoundland as well so that will put a few more miles on the trip. We met a really nice couple a few weeks ago when we were camping at Highlands Hammock State Park (in Sebring, FL) who told us that as long as we were going to Nova Scotia and PEI and we had the time we should definitely add Newfoundland on the docket. As they said, "you wont go this way again so you might as well go all the way". We agree. Of course, looking in to the cost of the Ferry to get there and back was a bit staggering, but we think it will be worth it. Of course the next problem is being ABLE to book tickets. We understand the trip is pretty well booked. That's the next thing on our agenda....figure out when we can be there and then see if we can get on board. I purchased a new camera for this trip so be prepared, there WILL BE PICTURES! I'm excited about documenting the trip with photo's.
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