We drove from PEI to Cape Breton and aside from the main TransCanada Hwy the roads are horrible. They have nasty potholes, cracks and heaves, poor Cougar, our trailer. One cabinet door came unhinged and most of Anne’s undies were on the bedroom floor. Spent a few hours tightening and checking screws and bolts after … Read more
Drove the Confederation bridge across the Northumberland Strait into PEI. Wow what a engineering accomplishment. It’s a 8 mile link between New Brunswick and PEI. The longest bridge across ice covered waters in the world. PEI is beauiful! Most of the Island is rural farm land filled with quaint little villages and marinas. The beaches … Read more
We stayed in New Brunswick a little longer than planned due to a transmission failure on the big blue truck. 🙁 The torque converter started to slip causing the brain to put the tranny into limp mode. Was able to clear the codes by unhooking the batteries but on the next tough pull up a … Read more
Made it into New Brunswick and snagged a great campsite along the ST John river about 100 miles east of Fredericton. We are going to spend a week camped here to avoid the crowds of long weekend campers invading the more well known tourist areas. Today Anne and I went to Kings Landing Historical Town, … Read more
Took a nice 3 hour boat cruise today to find whales in the St Lawrence. Was a great day for it sunny and mild and calm waters, boat was great and we saw a bunch of whales. There were a pile of Minke and Fin whales swimming in pods sometimes of 7 or 8 no … Read more
We are on the shore of Lake Superior, traveled yesterday over to Munising, Michigan still on the shore of Superior. Now crossed 3 times zones! Going on a boat cruise tonight to view the Picture Rocks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pictured_Rocks_National_Lakeshore Crossing over at Sault Ste Marie then heading to visit Ottawa and Quebec before we make it to … Read more
Currently in Bayfield, Nothern Wisconsin on the shore of Lake Superior, still hot and muggy 92 degree today, thank god for the fifth wheels AC. added a travel map showing the stops see in signature. 90 degrees was a lot more tolerable in Montana where it was dryTrip Map:http://www.travellerspoint.com/member_map.cfm?user=RaytronxTrip photos,blog and videos: https://picasaweb.google.com/electrontvhttp://blog.amckinnell.com/http://www.youtube.com/user/Raytronx
Got some new pix up. Badlands was really cool looking and we made a trip to America’s number 1 roadside attraction Wall Drughttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Drug, very over the top cheezy but fun anyway. We left Badlands national park this am and headed east on I90 expecting to get maybe as far a Minnesota State but 90 degree … Read more
Happy 4th everyone, currently in a campground near Hot Springs , South Dakota. It’s right at the south end of the Black Hills. This is a very cool area so we have been here a week and checked out all the sights, Devils Tower, Mount Rushmore, Custer State park, Wind Cave National Park. Seen tons … Read more
Left Glacier today and overnighted at a Try truck stop in Great Falls, Montana. Had a bit of excitement on the road as one of my back dually tires decided to let out all it’s air in a rapid fashion, it was like gee what’s that weird noise, being a dually I didn’t realize it … Read more
trip is underway! So far we headed across Washington state and stayed at a campground on the snake river and explored the palouse hills then drove up to Glacier National park. so far the rig is handling great, only problem was had to stop near the top of a pass in Idaho because the heat … Read more