Cue John, Paul, George and Ringo OR "o/` o/` Back in the US, Back in the US, Back in the USSA o/` o/`"

We are spending the night in the Walmart Parking Lot in Burton, Michigan about 6 miles east of Flint.  We left Toronto this morning at about 10 AM and it took 2:45 PM and that includes going through the border at Sarnia, ON/Port Huron, MI.  It went pretty quickly.  He didn't have us prove we didn't have any guns like the Canadian Border Guard did going into Canada.  Tomorrow we will arrive at Shults-Lewis and set up for the Sojourn that we start there on Tuesday, September 2nd.

I thought I'd share with you my thoughts on the PaleoCyber era we just spent in Canada.  We've been to many RV parks in America over the last 6 years of RVing.  When we first started it was pretty rare to find a park that had WiFi.  Today, it's commonplace.  In fact, we haven't stayed at a park in the US in the last 3 years that did NOT have WiFi.  I must conclude then that Canadian RV parks are 3-5 years behind the curve in their WiFi offering.  We stayed in 6 RV parks in Ontario and Quebec provinces.  Except for 1 park in Kingston, ON, they were all in or near  VERY large cities - Toronto, Montreal and Quebec City.  There were only 2 parks that had complimentary WiFi.  Another park you had to pay $4 for a WiFi connection that (I swear) must have been over a 300 baud modem.  Given what is available in Canada for IN-HOME use (as good as anything in the US), it's hard to accept the absolutely abysmal quality and/or total lack of WiFi in Canadian RV parks.  Which probably is based upon my next point.

Canadians are CRAZY about camping - Class A, Class C, Pop-up Trailers, Towables (we didn't see many 5th wheels) and just staying in tents.  All of the RV parks were extremely full of all of the above modes of "Camping."  Because of this high occupancy rate, I think that RV parks know they can skimp on offering services like WiFi to try to boost their "client pool."  WiFi or no WiFi, they are going to be virtually full every night. So, why spend the extra money for something (WiFi) that can't increase your bottom line since you are virtually full WITHOUT having to offer it.

Even Saint Ambroise which isn't a very large city had a VERY large RV park and a large RV dealership in town.  We saw more RV dealers in Canada than you can shake a stick at.

I thought I'd share some more pictures with you that Irene and I took on our Sojourn to Saint Ambroise, Saguenay, Quebec Province.  The first group here shows the old steel roofing after the ladies painted it to look "rustic"

Below are some pictures of the work we got done on the sojourn (besides the painting the 3 ladies did).

The red steel siding on the front of the building now is the old roof that was taken off of the area where the new steel roof is now installed.  The two pictures at the bottom of the 5 above pics show the "verge rafters" that we built.  You can also see the TyVek weather seal.  That is where the white roofing the ladies painted will be installed.  It's white because white reflects light which will help melt the snow and keep it from building up on the roof.  If you look at the main part of the building near the top of the 2nd and 3rd pictures, you can see some of the old roofing that is yet to be removed.

Below are some pictures of the scenery in Saguenay.  It is very beautiful country.  This is one of the greatest benefits of Sojourning and RVing.  We get to go places and see what God has put THERE and no where else in the whole world.

Finally, no matter how much we always enjoy traveling to South Africa, Namibia, Mexico, Romania, Malta, Albania and Canada - it's always wonderful to walk up to that US Customs and Immigration Service person and now that in just a couple of minutes you will be back in the USA .... and we are!