One step closer!

Ottawa, Canada

After weeks of preparation and planning, I am less than 2 weeks from starting my 9 province, 20 state camping adventure. It seems so much more real now.

This past week I paid for, registered and got the license plate for my new Prolite Plus S trailer. It’s waiting for me in St. Jerome, QC.

http://www.roulottesprolite.com/indexen glish.htm

I will be off to St. Jerome bright and early on June 3rd to be introduced to it. They will do a walk through with me to show me all the features and systems involved, hitch it up for me and then I’ll be heading down the road.

I’ve never had a travel trailer before, aside from using my family’s tent/trailer the year after college, so I’m a little apprehensive about the steep learning curve involved. But I’m excited to once again have just a key for my SUV (and for the trailer) on my key ring. My daughter Gill has a necklace that says, “He who wanders is not lost”. I have one that says, “I am no longer afraid of storms, for I am learning to sail my own ship”. Both are rather appropriate.

I am spending these last few weeks getting my apartment packed up and ready to go into storage and working with the great folks at Core Physiotherapy to get my SI joint back into shape after a couple of years of neglect. A huge thanks to Eli, Tanya and Isobel.

http://www.corephysiotherapy.ca/index.h tml

My first stop will be in Levis, QC – just a couple of hours down the road from St. Jerome, for my first couple of nights at the KOA there to figure out how to make everything work! And I will undoubtably hop across the bridge to have a visit with one of my favourite Canadian cities, Quebec City.

I will spend the next 6 weeks travelling through Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. Hopefully all their snow has melted by the time I get there! I’ll be back here in Ottawa for a couple of weeks at the end of July to put my possessions in storage, and then I’ll be westward bound. My return to Ottawa is currently planned to be in early spring 2016.

But maybe I’ll get on the road and decide I hate camping, driving, sight seeing, and photography, and that I miss everyone too much and will decide to head back. That’s why there are Interstates.