On the Road Again

 

It was time to say goodbye to the east coast of Canada and get back on the road again. We’re heading into the USA and will take another month or more until we’re home!  What our goal is for this part of the trip is to go volunteer with Wycliffe Bible Translators at two of their centres:  Waxhaw, North Carolina, and Dallas, Texas.  But those places are many miles away!  So let the journey begin.

We crossed into Maine with no problem, other than the border security actually wanting to see the contents of our fridge instead of just trusting our word on it being virtually empty.  From there it was a stop at Walmart to pick up groceries and then off to our first camping spot: Cold River Campground just outside of Bangor, Maine.                                     

We pulled into here, running on prayers and fumes!
Thankfully they had some diesel for the truck.

It was a beautiful campground and being close to the city, we dashed off in hopes of getting an American sim card for our phone.  That didn’t happen.  We had to wait until the next day to get that sorted.

With campground Wi-Fi being unreliable, it was so much nicer to have a US data plan in order to book sites ahead and navigate along unknown roads.  There’s being adventurous, like trying to find a park with a picnic table off the freeway; and then there’s getting totally lost!  Most of the time Mildred, aka Google maps, knew where to take us.  By now we had no sense of direction anyway.

The next night was at Wakeda campground near Hampton Falls, New Hampshire. It was a wonderful place nestled among the trees of a tall pine forest. There was virtually no grass under those trees!  The campground was making preparations for a Halloween theme weekend on the September long weekend with skeletons hanging about everywhere! Too bad we didn’t have more time to explore the area but we wanted to continue on.  

The next day we drove through the length of Massachusetts. From there it was into New York State at a KOA campground tucked away between farms and hills at Unidilla, south of Albany. We had been driving in rain off and on for most of the afternoon and just after we finished setting up it began to pour.  It was a full evening of rain that kept us in, not able to explore the campground or the area. 

Someone commented that the pictures posted look like we’re on a honeymoon trip.  I responded that the driving days are not all honeymoon days!  After three days of interstate driving, we were looking forward to staying somewhere for more than one night!  We’d booked a campground in Pennsylvania but the drive to get there was one of the more stressful days with so much truck traffic.  We think driving from Edmonton to Calgary is crazy, but add a few more hours of that intensity and it’s a tiring day.