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Nothing to declare

By tony.barb.fisher May 30, 20232023 East Coast Tour

Awake at 6:30am following a nice night in the park. I head off to the shower hoping that I find hot water. I am mostly satisfied as the water is warm and pleasant enough to enjoy. Barb reports from her slightly later shower that the system was now up-to-speed and…

Arriving in Indy

By tony.barb.fisher May 27, 20232023 East Coast Tour

After enjoying a beverage and slice of pizza at our hosts last evening, we enjoyed a long and silent night. The views across the farmland this morning were serene. Windmills on the horizon quietly turning about their business whilst a few early farming types were up and running about getting…

Heading West to go East?

By tony.barb.fisher May 26, 20232023 East Coast Tour

Welcome to the first in a series of posts in which we will share with you a trip to the Canadian Maritime provinces. We’re traveling in our 2022 PleasureWay OnTour 2.2 camper-van again and plan on staying at a variety of campgrounds along the way. It’s late May 2023 and…

Day 47: The road home

By tony.barb.fisher April 23, 20232023 Southwest US tour

Days 45 & 46 were spent visiting family & there was no specific post for those days. This is it, the last day of this trip. We are up early and it’s cool. We enjoy breakfast and say our goodbyes (for now) and hit the road. Our first stop is…

Day 44: It’s nice to be back, Eh!

By tony.barb.fisher April 20, 20232023 Southwest US tour

So this is it, our last day of this trip in the USA and it starts with another beautiful morning. We enjoy a quick breakfast and pack up the van for the drive. We head out and immediately have a small issue, our phones (used for GPS mapping functions while…

Day 01: On the road again…

By tony.barb.fisher March 8, 20232023 Southwest US tour

Welcome back to our travel blog! The long and snowy winters end approaches; however, not quickly enough for these intrepid explorers. And so this post finds us heading out in search of sunnier and warmer climes in the Southern US. Todays drive took us from the US/Canadian border, across the…

Southern Ontario Fall Roadtrip

By tony.barb.fisher November 20, 2022Travel

What's all this about then? It's Friday, September 23rd and we're on the road again. This time we're heading out on a tour that will take us around the Southern Ontario peninsula allowing us to visit family and some places that we've not visited before. Our first stop would be…

Prince Edward county: Wine and sand… Oh my!

By tony.barb.fisher September 14, 2022Travel

For our second trip to Prince Edward County this year, we teamed up with our friends Dean & Cathy to spend a week relaxing at Sandbanks River Country Campground. We chose to take the week immediately after the Labour Day weekend in the hopes that it would be quiet, we…

Mid-week excursion to Charleston Lake

By tony.barb.fisher August 26, 2022Travel

Our grand-daughter, Elena, is staying with us for the week and so we thought a quick two day camping get away would be a nice break. However, Mother Nature decided to make the start of our journey a little challenging by delivering a deluge of rain just before we were…

A short trip away…

By tony.barb.fisher August 4, 2022Travel

Late July and we’re off again, this time for a short two-night stay at Farran Campground on the St. Lawrence Seaway. The campgrounds along the St. Lawrence river are fairly close to home being less than an hours drive door to site. As this was a mid-week get away, we…

July 21, 2022 – Recap and Statistics

By tony.barb.fisher July 21, 20222022 Cross-continent tour

Three weeks, yes it’s been that long since we arrived home after our 42 day cross-continent tour. A few friends have asked for some specifics about the trip and so we provide the following for your consideration. The first question tends to be about where we stayed each night. Did…

Day 42: June 30 – Deep River, ON to Home

By tony.barb.fisher June 30, 20222022 Cross-continent tour

Good morning. Slept in today as it will be a short drive home from Driftwood Provincial Park. Had time to cook eggs, bacon & hash-browns and enjoy them outside…. Yes, the weather has finally cooperated to allow us to do this. Last breakfast on the road for this trip This…

Day 41: June 29 – Timmins, ON to Deep River, ON

By tony.barb.fisher June 29, 20222022 Cross-continent tour

Today we shall complete our Hwy-11 journey and join Hwy-17 at North Bay for the journey down the Ottawa Valley. We pass through Earlton and wave at ‘Earl’ the bison on the way past. We stop for lunch at a quiet rest area a little North of North Bay and…

Day 40: June 28 – Geraldton, ON to Timmins, ON

By tony.barb.fisher June 28, 20222022 Cross-continent tour

Although last nights weather forecast was only for light showers, we actually had an all out thunderstorm for about an hours or so around midnight followed by light rain the remainder of the night. By this morning the rain had ended. Yay. We traveled East for a few hours through…

Day 39: June 27 – Dryden, ON to Geraldton, ON

By tony.barb.fisher June 27, 20222022 Cross-continent tour

Aaron Provincial Park was wonderful. Quiet and quite large sites. If you’re driving past it’s worth a stop for the night. We highly recommend. Slow start to the day it seems as we didn’t get rolling until about 10:00am. Today we are targeting Geraldton, ON along Hwy-11 from Thunder Bay.…

Day 38: June 26 – Portage la Prairie, MB to Dryden, ON

By tony.barb.fisher June 26, 20222022 Cross-continent tour

After a great nights sleep at the Walmart, we headed to Tim Horton’s for breakfast. Disappointment awaited. Barb’s breakfast sandwich had eggshells in it and my Bagel BELT arrived without L or T. 😒 We made a quick stop at the White Horse monument just West of Winnipeg as we…

Day 37: June 25 – Lloydminster, AB to Portage la Prairie, MB

By tony.barb.fisher June 25, 20222022 Cross-continent tour

Early start to the day as we head East out of Lloydminster and immediately into Saskatchewan. The border actually splits the town into two and as we depart we both commented on our observation that most of the recent commercial development had occurred on the Alberta side of town leaving…

Day 36: June 24 – Jasper National Park, AB to Lloydminster, AB

By tony.barb.fisher June 24, 20222022 Cross-continent tour

That was a cold night. We have recently slept easily through a few cooler nights without turning on the furnace and so thought last night would be the same. Nope, something about last night made the 5C feel colder than it was. Should have turned on the furnace or put…

Day 35: June 23 – Yoho National Park, BC to Jasper National Park, AB

By tony.barb.fisher June 23, 20222022 Cross-continent tour

Today will not be what we expect. Although we slept really well and neither of us heard any trains overnight, the day would bring just a few surprises. We started off with our usual morning preparations and then because the driving would only consist of about 3 hours, we thought…

Day 34: June 22 – Tappen, BC to Yoho National Park, BC

By tony.barb.fisher June 22, 20222022 Cross-continent tour

After a restful night at the winery, we enjoyed a quiet breakfast and headed out. Destination today, Yoho National park. Our first stop was in Revelstoke where we enjoyed a Tim Horton’s bagel BELT and coffee before filling up with fuel. Starting to reacclimatize ourselves to CDN prices for fuel,…