No crying over spilled milk . . .

Scenery in Michigan. The roads are HORRIBLE!

. . . even if it's an entire gallon splattered all over the floor of the rv. Jeff decided to go four-wheeling through the Grand Canyon in the rig and guess what? The refrigerator door popped open and an entire gallon of mile exploded all over the floor mixed with a container of grape tomatoes (and pickles, strawberries, cherries, etc.) Actually, he just hit a pot hole in a truck stop going slightly too fast but the results were the same. OMG! What a mess! There were tomatoes and milk everywhere. Thank goodness for the 4 beach towels we are using to keep the chairs and couches clear of Otis's wet feet and slobber. It took all four towels to wipe up the milk. It was literally dripping out the passenger side slide down the sides of the outside bins. We managed to get most of it up from under the driver's side slide but oh, what a mess. We are referring to it now as Dada's Dairy Disaster. We've cleaned up the floors as best we can but I'm thankful it's not hot here. I hope we got it all because when it gets hot again, it's going to stink like sour milk. We even made a Pinesol and water mix and poured that on the floor hoping it would follow the same route as the milk and wash it all out. There are still streaks down on the outside bins from where the stuff leaked. Do we have fun on our trips or what?

Summer solstice full moon and thunderheads - beautiful!

It was a shame to leave Camp Turkeyville, such a serene beautiful campground. And the temperatures have finally dropped. It was 63 degrees at 7:30 a.m. Lovely and cool with a little breeze. So much better than the heat and humidity. But alas, Nova Scotia is waiting. 

Lake Huron. We've now seen three of the 5 Great Lakes. We
never saw Lake Michigan even though we were RIGHT THERE!

Took forever to get through the border. At least 45 minutes. We were seriously worried about Otis and what difficulties we would have with him/his paperwork. As we approached the gates they opened a 4th lane.

I guess we have to help pay for
the bridge. This is on the US side.

We went through that one. They guy asked for our IDs, our license plate #, etc. He was not the most pleasant individual we've ever encountered. We felt like we were annoying him. He never asked about pets (just weapons) but Jeff said, "We have a dog." He replied impatiently, "Just go, just go." It was so funny. I think he got pulled from his lunch or something because there were so many people and the lines were getting longer. We probably could have brought an elephant into the country and he would have just wanted us to leave him alone! 

Part of the Toronto skyline and traffic. It's way worse than what
this photo shows.

We made our way to Toronto - stayed just outside the city in an "okay" KOA campground. It had a "K-9 Camp" (a fenced area you can take the dog off the leash and let them run) Otis was happy. Toronto is huge! Over 6.5 million people live there. The traffic this morning was incredible. I haven't tried driving the rig yet. I think I'll wait until we get to a less populated areas. So much traffic, so many big trucks. Jeff is doing great (except for the giant truck stop pothole!) Like he said, "we haven't hit anything yet have we?" Everything is so green but fairly flat. Looks like Michigan and Illinois. Lots of agricultural land. It's so strange how so many people are crammed into the cities and then there are these huge stretches of wilderness. 

Too much time spend inside the RV.

We are here just outside of Montreal for the evening and tomorrow we will be in Quebec City. We are trying to recall any French we ever knew because it is the official language of this province. We've had some long traveling days these last few days. Tomorrow we are only traveling about 200 miles so we hope to spend some time touring the historic areas of Quebec city. We have reservations in Nova Scotia for the 27-30. We will be spending some time in New Brunswick and maybe even get over to Prince Edward Island along the way. 

We are having issues with the GPS. It's steered us wrong the last two days. Thank goodness for Google maps. We use the RV gps initially but as we get closer to our destination, I look up the address on my phone with Google maps and make sure we are truly headed the correct way. It is so NOT fun getting off course in this rig. It's not like you can just turn around anywhere. But it is convenient using the truck stop gas stations to fill up. Otis gets his potty breaks when we stop. He keeps stealing my seat every time I get up. But today he slept most of the time so he is getting used to the traveling. We are so fortunate to be able to do this. It's a blast! 

We are near the railroad tracks again tonight. I love hearing the sound of the trains. I wonder if they purposely locate RV parks next to the tracks so you can feel like a vagabond or hobo riding the rails - just in an rv instead of a train. Or maybe it's just cheap acreage. I'm going with the vagabond thing.