Tuesday, May 31, 2016

On our way to Cochrane, Alberta!!! Summer holiday.

Our big trip of the year!  Touring to Cochrane, Alberta, visiting friends and family along the way.

We started out at 7am today.  Beautiful day to drive.  We hadn't been up the 'Sudbury' highway since Randi was at Laurentian University.  A lot has changed since then.  Almost the whole road is 4 lanes. So nice to travel on that.  Also, there were new service centres built.

We stopped in Port Severen for a break and coffee (for Fran).  Had our first big challenge with the rig.  But Al handled it beautifully.  (I had mistaken where the diesel pumps were and we ended up passing them)  He had to make a 3 point turn!  Not an easy feat for where we were but he did it.

Back on the road again.  We made our next stop in Nairn, Ontario to fill up and have our lunch.  We decided to pack our lunches the night before and have them somewhere along the way.  Not only healthy but thrifty too.  (Might lend to more shopping money???? LOL )

Not to far after our lunch stop at 1pm, we arrived at Serpent River Campground.  Right away you could tell it was an old KOA.  Got checked in and found our site.  Al could not get the 30amp service to work.  He went and asked and JR came out to help with all the tools.  Turns out the breaker needed to be replaced and we were in business.

We took a walk about---didn't take to long.  This campground has quite a few seasonal campers and a few transient ones.  It is the beginning of the season here so some of the seasonal people were not even here yet.  It is along the highway, but not to noisy so far.

Here are a few pictures.  I am sure Enviromasters and Al were both thinking the grass needed to be cut!






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