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Days 10 & 11: McLaren campground

By tony.barb.fisher September 22, 20242024 Fall trip into Quebec

This campground is amazing. It is quiet and the sites are so far apart that it feels as if we’re camping in park by ourselves. A must try if you have not. No pictures from these last two days, we just took it easy visiting with friends and doing a…

Day 09: Return to Ontario

By tony.barb.fisher September 19, 20242024 Fall trip into Quebec

A cool morning awaited as we prepared to leave for the day and head back toward Ontario. It was cold walk to the showers which were passable at best as they were tiny and old. Lots of hot water but no room to disrobe or move about easily while washing.…

Day 01: Heading to Quebec City

By tony.barb.fisher September 11, 20242024 Fall trip into Quebec

Today we start a new trip into Quebec. It will be a short trip this time with us planning only 11 nights being planned. After completing the loading of our gear, we head out shortly after 9:00am heading toward Montreal. We are traveling with Mr & Mrs Milddogs.com for the…

Day 45: Let’s get home, shall we?

By tony.barb.fisher May 17, 20242024 Cross-continent tour

This is it, our last day on the road as part of this adventure. There is a sense of sadness that it’s almost over yet we are looking forward to being home and enjoying Spring around our home. After a quiet night we awake fairly early and begin to prepare…

Day 44: …

By tony.barb.fisher May 16, 20242024 Cross-continent tour

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Day 43: The day we took a shortcut

By tony.barb.fisher May 15, 20242024 Cross-continent tour

Up and at ‘em by 7:00am and on the road by 8:30am and soon pass the halfway-point along the Trans Canada Highway. We head towards Sault-Ste-Marie and then turn East on Hwy-17. Our first stop is in Echo Bay, ON to see the giant ‘Loonie’. It’s here to recognize that…

Day 42: …the big lake they call Gitche Gumee…

By tony.barb.fisher May 14, 20242024 Cross-continent tour

According to Wikipedia, Lake Superior is actually called Giche-gami in Ojibwe but I’ve used the Gordon Lightfoot spelling for the title of this post. Ahhh, after our night in Winnipeg, last night was soooo quiet. We slept until 7:00am and could have probably slept longer if we didn’t need to…

Day 41: Let’s go into the woods today

By tony.barb.fisher May 13, 20242024 Cross-continent tour

Sleeping at a truck stop next to a busy highway and intersection was probably not the best idea we’ve ever had, but we made it through the night albeit with less deep sleep than we probably needed. We start by having an egg breakfast with coffee at the Denny’s on-site.…

Day 2 & Day 3: …

By tony.barb.fisher April 5, 20242024 Cross-continent tour

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Day 1: Head West Young Man

By tony.barb.fisher April 3, 20242024 Cross-continent tour

We’re off again. This time the plan is to get to California and then head North into the Sierra Nevada mountains before turning West to the Pacific coast and continuing North into Canada. The final leg will bring us back across the continent through the Northern states before again returning…

Winter is coming…

By tony.barb.fisher November 23, 2023Travel

It's been a while since my last post in June. Since that time we enjoyed Summer at home while taking a couple of shorter trips with the van to local camping spots along the St. Lawrence River and Provincial Parks. We also headed to Southern Ontario on a roadtrip in…

A Long Day

By tony.barb.fisher June 21, 20232023 East Coast Tour

It wasn’t supposed to be a long day but it turned out to be the longest of this trip. Here’s how it all came to be. The day started with us enjoying a slow start to the day. We had a light breakfast and then went to the beach expecting…

Notre vue depuis la route

By tony.barb.fisher June 3, 20232023 East Coast Tour

Bonjour! As you might be able to guess today we set-off on our East coast trip to the Maritimes & we are starting in ‘la belle province de Québec’. (Oh, the title of this post is ‘Our view from the road’ for those of our readers that do not read…

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…