We made it to Canada!

June 4 – I got up several times last night but never got sick, I kept using the bathroom and drinking water.  My hernia was hurting so took tums and then a pill.  I was glad once I was feeling normal as it was a travel day.

The saga of the passport worked out!  I called the post office just after they opened at 8:30 and the clerk said she had it there for me so after breakfast I went down and picked it up and mailed a few items while Bill started the tank emptying job.  We were later leaving that we would have liked but it was better than waiting all day for the passport and staying another night.

Jack and I at the duty
free store

It really was not the best day!  Bill had our route mapped out only to be re-routed away from I-75.  As we followed the re-route we ended up where we started so Bill chose to put us on 23 which was a 4 lane divided highway.  We stopped for diesel at the Pilot and Bill chatted with the trucker beside us who told him how to get to the Ambassador Bridge.  We followed him for a while but with traffic cutting in we got further behind.  He did give perfect directions to the bridge.  THEN there were no directions for anything but cars or trucks.  We don’t fit either so of course we got in the wrong lot at the duty free shop.  We shopped for Bill’s cousin and then debated how to get turned around to get on the bridge.  The trucks just fly through,

Ambassador Bridge to Canada

far more trucks than cars going over.  We got turned around and paid our $10 to cross the bridge and then there was the border guard in Canada.  She had NO personality and then Bill could not find his new passport that I just picked up this morning.  She was getting impatient and the line behind us was getting long.  I looked in my wallet and he had put it there.  Geez!  Now I’m responsible for it! 

Traffic was pretty heavy on the way to London.  There was also a lot of road work so the speed limits were up and down.  We tried setting up our phones as instructed but it’s not working.  Once we settled in to the kinda ratty campground, Bill used the office phone to call Pete and Jane and let them know we made it and we’re getting together tomorrow.  We had some dinner and I dug out the old “burner” phone we used before and headed to Wal-mart to get a prepaid card for it.  Well, that didn’t happen, the phone is too old.  We stopped at a huge hardware store so I could get a new light bulb for the fridge.  I guess tomorrow we’re going to do the $10 a day deal with ATT for Bill’s phone.