Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Back in the USA!!




The Cat dealer came and fixed the RV on Monday around noon and after getting the trailer hooked up and the truck in the trailer we got on the road later that afternoon! It felt so good to be on the road again (although we still have that rattle we can't figure out...). We drove about 260 miles to just south of Whitecourt, Alberta - by then it was 9pm and dark so we pulled off onto a rest stop and slept until about 3am - then we got back on the road again.


We drove and drove - through Edmonton, through Calgary (where we got our first ding in the window), on towards the border. We stopped in Nanton, Alberta and had lunch - what a cute little town - full of antique shops and historical buildings. We were about 75 miles north of the border when a car flagged at us and yelled we had a blow out. Scott pulled over and we were dreading what we were about to see...we had no way of changing an RV tire - they are too big for us to carry and we would need to many specialized tools to change it. But it ended up being the trailer tire - so Scott changed it in the howling wind - and we got on our way again.


The border crossing was interesting - we (as in the entire RV and trailer) got x-rayed! We drove into this building and the officer told us to go slow through it while the x-ray was working. They obviously didn't find anything because we were on our way again.


Scott was determined to make it to Great Falls - so we continued driving - he was fighting the winds the whole way. We are now parked in a nice RV park - I'm catching up on emails and cleaning and Scott is out doing errands. They are calling for snow today (we can't escape it!) and then on Friday it's supposed to be very cold. Our plan is to leave tomorrow morning and try to beat the cold front...but we all know how plans go...


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