Mark & Chris's Phaeton Place

I've posted our first entry on our new Phaeton Place blog. You can find the link to it in the right margin and by clicking on the title of this entry. Once you are on the new Phaeton Place blog, I invite you to please click on the Followers button in the right margin so you can keep up with our travels. I will also put a link to our Bounder blog on the new blog to make it easier to flip back and forth.

This will be my last post on the Bounder blog. Thank you to all our readers over the last two years and we hope you will continue to follow our adventures in our new Phaeton.

Back in Ottawa

Overnight at Cracker Barrel was great. Very quiet. We had a nice breakfast at Cracker Barrel this morning before heading for Ogdensburg, NY on Hwy 37. Once we arrived at the border, we learned that our documentation from Lazydays had not arrived until yesterday morning. Usually the border needs your documentation in hand 3 days before you cross the border. Today things were a little slow at the crossing and I had a really helpful US Border guard. He found my documentation and had us processed in less than 30 minutes. The Canadian side went just as smoothly too. I paid the GST on the purchase price converted into Cdn$. From there it was clear sailing on into Ottawa. We parked the motorhome out at the farm in Sarsfield and unloaded what we will need for the next 4 days that we are in Ottawa.

Hoping to be able to sort out the Ontario registration process tomorrow if all goes well.

Chris back to work tomorrow. Lots of running around for me.

Watertown, NY

We left Gettysburg Farm at 08:30 am and pulled into the Cracker Barrel in Watertown, NY around 4:30 pm. Weather was fabulous the whole way. Clear blue skies and around 70F for the most part. Traffic rolled right along on I-83 and I-81. The toughest part was getting back on I-83 at York from the campground. Same bottle neck as the other day. We averaged a little over 60 mph the whole way and right around 8 mpg. One more stop for fuel at the Flying J in New Milford, PA before we entered NY state. $2.379 a gallon and that should be enough to get us all the way back to Ottawa.

Supper at Cracker Barrel and a little stroll through the neighboring Home Depot to pick up a spare water filter cartridge for our new refrigerator. Time to let Chris teach me a lesson in Wii Golf.

Crossing the border tomorrow.....hopefully.