We cannot thank our friends and family enough for opening your yards and driveways to us from Kamloops BC, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia and California.
Ron and Mary Friesen (who were away at the time on their own camping trip), offered their yard for our first overnight stop in Kamloops which allowed us to see Tanya and Dean before we ventured out.
A special thanks to my sister Jo and Tom for letting us camp out in their yard at Eagle Lake Ontario for 3 nights. They put on a birthday dinner for Ray and surprised him with a cake! Loved seeing Christina, Adam and their kids!
In Guelph we camped in the driveway at Riki and Brad's house. We took up the whole driveway! Thank you to Brad Sr and Barb for really making us feel at home! We were so happy to be able to surprise Alisha and be there for her 4th birthday! Alisha was able to "camp out" with Nana & Papa in the 5th wheel, where we watched many Barbie movies!
In Newmarket we spent two nights with my wild and crazy brother Jimmy and his wife Sue. Man we love you two and your two crazy friends who are still texting us! Was that Bob and Shelia or Fred and Betty??? Ha ha.. It was great to see Amanda and family!
In Lindsay Ontario, we spent two nights with our dear friend Nancy. It was great to be with her on her farm as she has now sold it and is going to be retiring at the end of the year. She has promised to visit us for an extended trip this Spring!
When we got to PEI, our friend Elayne (from BC) had prearranged for us to camp out at her sister Cathy's house. Cathy had never met us, but opened her house and yard to us for the 4 days we were there. Thank you so much Cathy! Also to Elayne's brother, David who took us up in his airplane for an ariel view of PEI. It was fabulous!!
In Hammond Plains Nova Scotia, we again camped out in a driveway. Tim and Pam Sleigh not only let us camp in their driveway, but also let us leave our 5th wheel in their yard for the 6 days we went to Newfoundland. We appreciated that more than we can say! While travelling across Canada we would receive emails from Tim, with ideas of places to stop (like the longest covered bridge in the world, Hartford New Brunswick) and also to warn us about the moose in New Brunswick (which to my dismay, we never did see).
After our long trek across the United States, we arrived in California ready to park ourselves for more than one day! Yay!!! That packing up everyday can get tiring! We camped at the Malibu RV park for 2 & 1/2 weeks. We got to see Sadie and Riley everyday! Thanks for everything Cia and Derian, especially for surprising us the first weekend by camping right next to us. That was a great surprise!
When we set out on this adventure of ours, we had crossed into the States in Montana and wanted to go down to South Dakota to see Mt Rushmore. Unfortunately we had a timeline to get to Ontario, so were unable to go to South Dakota.
In Canada we had wanted to go as far in east as we could. We did that by going all the way to Newfoundland. When we went down to the States into Maine we had wanted to go right down to New Jersey and New York to see the 9-11 Memorial site, Empire State Building,,,you know all the touristy things in New York. We also had wanted to go to Washington DC.
But two and a half months just is not possibly enough time to do all of the things that you want to do with so much driving. We will plan a trip back to New York next year, but will fly and rent a car.
We cannot say enough about this adventure. We spent time with our families, especially the grand kids. We saw our country and met so many nice people! Going through the United States was awesome, especially the eastern coast, which is now suffering from the hurricane in the last few days.
We hope that you have enjoyed following our blog. It has been fun writing! And we hope that each of you at sometime, have the opportunity to take a Bogus Adventure of your own.
We leave you now with this photo. Remember to live every day as though it is your last and don't sweat the small things in life.
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Awww. That was so nice, brought tears to my eyes!! I am so glad that you guys made it here for Alisha's birthday and so was she! She has been saying lots lately that she misses Nana :( I am glad you had a safe trip from one side of the country to the other and from one side of the staes to the other and back home! Love you and miss you guys.
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Thank you Riki. We were so happy to be there for her birthday! We miss her too and all of you!
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