The Trip Planned Itself

Sienna busy writing on the motor home
Some people plan deliberately not to have a plan and go with the flow. We simply don't have a plan for this trip. We want to get a taste of living on a motor home. "I don't mind if we get on the motor home and the vehicle stays on the rental company's parking lot..." I joked when we left early afternoon yesterday. We did work on route, somehow. We could go hopping around Lake Eris -- Point Peele, Detroit of Michigan, Cleveland of Ohio, Niagara Falls on the lake and then back in town.

We made it to Point Peele around 6 o'clock last night. The park was closed. We decided to stay overnight in that town. 24 hours later, we made it to Windsor bording Detroit, Michigan. Frustrations however started to emerge:

1) We had to find a place to fill up the water tank. That was not so easy. The rental company told us any gas station would let you fill up the water tank if you fill up your gas tank there. Not true. A lot of gas stations simple don't have a hose. Found a gas station with a hose, but the hose didn't have the proper cap to connect to our tank. The husbands managed to get the water in the tank anyways.

2) The vehicle has an additional heating system, a forced-air furnace that relies on a separate battery unit to work. In the middle of the night, the furnace stopped to work. I woke up freezing cold. Luckily we figured to turn the car on for a couple of minutes so that the furnace battery got recharged.

3) By the end of the day today, one of the holding tank was indicated full. We had to run around town in Windsor looking for a place to dump the waste water.

4) On top of everything else, there is R's pain in the butt, literally. I mean his H situation. What was a minor discomfort has become a major ailment. Poor thing. We ended up in the hospital's emergency later in the evening. The doctor prescribed extra strength pain killer for her and by doing that, he helped to put our driver to sleep. So Lui had to take over. And I, reluctantly, got set ready to go too.

Amidst the problems, we did see the sun jumping out of water in the morning. We only saw sun set on our last trip to a lake site last summer. We also met our old friends in Windsor, the whole family, in our moving living room. The two daughters, 16 and 12, are so beautiful looking. And our daughters, Sienna and Rachel, have been having some amazing times of their lives. Sienna dresses up in her party dress and tirelessly writes on her book and solve puzzles with Rachel.

As far as the food is concerned, we are just as good as eating at home or dinning out. For breakfast, we had egg omelettes with mushrooms, whole wheat bread toast, sausage with soy milk, milk and O.J. All the 4 adults also got our morning caffeine boost from Tim Horton. Lunch was smoked salmon sandwich over fish soup. Dinner was seafood fried rice, green beans and cooked shrimp rings...

By this time, our plan for the trip has finally become clear and definite - we need to get back home in our motor home as soon as the sun rises again tomorrow morning. The good thing about not having a firm plan is that you don't get frustrated when things don't go as you planned.