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Maintance on coach. Tie up loose ends. Tour meeting at 2:00 with briefing on tomorrows departure and trip in general. So far we have traveled 4720 miles. Used 535.6 gal. of fuel Averaging mpg. 8.8 Fuel cost $2,477.99 which averages 4.63 /gal.

11 Jul 08 Fri. day 40 Up early to depart for Canada. Coach is all ready and we have briefing at 8:00am. Pull out at 8:30. Mini caravan to Capabello Island. Summer home of FDR. 18 bedrooms/4 baths (compare it to Newport Beach RI or Baa Habaa, Me.
Through Canadian Customs 4:30 after the wait in line at Calais, Me. Rolled into camp 6:30
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12 Jul 08 Sat. day 41 Saint John, New Brunswick. Nice camp. St. Johns goes back to 1700's. A lot of 100 year old homes, still used and very well kept.There was a big fire in 1800 that destroyed 2/3 of the city.
Went to upside down falls. A rock out crop 36' below the water creates rapids and falls that change with the tides. Lunch there with a beautiful view of the rapids. Tour of the city. City gets 10' of snow each winter.

13 Jul Sun. day 42 Travel to Hopewell Cape and the Bay of Fundy. Highest tides in the world occur here. 52' as a Max. Generaly around 25 to 30'. Mushroom rocks are awsome sight. Bottom of rocks are worn off by the water' Top has soil and vegetation, so it looks like a mushroom. Saw Lew and Vi , Tracy and Betty there at the same time.

Spent today catching up on cleaning the coach and running errands. Hair cut day for Bunny and she looks like she was sheared. However she is a lot cooler, the temp here today was 89. Viola & Lew Rhoden showed up today, they are also going North with another couple. Also Dino & Karen Oliva showed up today in their Volks-wagon camper.
(They are really adventuresome people) Tomorrow will be a meeting at 2:00 with the Wagon Master for last details of our tour , then leave here on Friday morning.

Today we toured "Ba Habaa" Maine. Great tourist walking area and beautiful water side views. Had our first Lobster roll there (very good) at Carmens Veranda. Then toured the Acadia National Park. Lots of History here, French and English explorers early on and the expansion of the area through the years. Caddilac Mountain - named after the man, not the car. But its the same man that named the car.

27 June FR Leave Peru - drive to Granger Indiana (South Bend) to visit Tom & Joan Wisner (Navigator from BH Air force base.Had not seen them for about 35 years. Lots of talk about the old days. Dinner at Casino by Lake Michigan

28 June Sat Haircuts for both of us and a little shopping. Met up with Tom & Joan . Took the afternoon to tour all the nooks and crannies of Notre Dame. Quite the Place. Traditions everywhere. Joan Fixed us dinner at their home. Very tasty Pasta. Finally said our good-bys about 9:30.

29 June Sun Up to try for early departure. SURPRISE Its raining. No its Pouring!
It rains almost all the way to Buffalo. Arrive Chris & Bruces (Scotts Mom & Step Dad)
about 9pm Dinner there.

30 Jun Mon Slow start Morning. Bruce had to work. Chris took us to Niagara Falls. We see it from every angle. Mother nature showing her power again. (Fantastic) Did "Maid of the Mist" cruise right up to the falls. thought the mist was a little HEAVY, ---NO---ITS RAINING (big BLACK CLOUD LET LOOSE ON TOP OF US.) Drive over to Goat Island and hike around it, 3 Sisters Islands and top of Bridal Veil Falls. The amount of waves coming down this river is just amazing. Dinner at KOI (continental) at Casino.

1 JUL Tu. We are up early so the 4 of us can partake the "Whirl Pool Jet Boat" After complete briefing we board the Jet Boat for the cruise. You are told ahead "Do not take anything that can't get wet, because it does. Plus things get torn away from you and are lost in the water. During the cruise we do 3 "Kelsey" turns and shoot 3/4 and 5 rapids. There is a class 6, but it is illegal , $10,000 fine. The water at the whirl pool is 250' deep.

2 Jul Wed 3 Jul Thur 4 Jul Fri
5 Jul Sat Filling in all at once because I'm having to play catch-up
I guess, just having to much fun and no time to keep up. Grand Island, NY is a beautiful place. We have seen a Play "Wizard" in downtown Buffalo. Jet-skied, Kayaked the Niagara River, rode bikes and met great people. Super time.

6 JUL sUN Departed Grand Island and almost immediateloy pulled onto a Toll Road. On On that toll road all the way across NY State. $51.70 . For you west coasters thats like driving from Seattle to Eugene Oregon. So every time we would make a trip to Portland and back it would cost $100.00 in tolls. Stayed the night in Sturbridge, Maine

7 Jul Mon Departed Sturbridge about 9:00. Back on a toll road. Paid about $27.00 in tolls today . Arr. Trenton, Maine at 3:45 , Timberland Acres R.V. Park. Already there are,
Norm & Lee DeShon, Al & Ina Soverign, Bob & Lorraine Scholes, Gary & Barb Pisel,
Since today is Myron's 71 birthday, they all throw a party with cake and Ice Cream.
Great friends to be with for the next 40 days or so.

Toured the local area. Drove out to Walton IN where we first lived when assingned here in the Air Force. Found that house -- now has trees but looks good. Back to Bunker Hill AFB -- (now Grissom). The base has been deactivated and is now just a reserve refueling wing.The housing and most of the main buildings have been turned over to civilian entities. The Old "Officers Club" is now a bar and resturant open to anyone. The housing area is now all civilian and you can buy the units for somewhere between 30 and 80,000 dollars. Took pictures of the old place.. Finally out of there and back to Peru - which is "Circus City USA" as this is where the big circuses would winter back in the 1800s and well into the 1900s. Now there is the Circus International Hall of Fame.