Day 23, July 19, 2007

Day 23, Thursday, July 19, 2007
Yesterday we made an appointment for the motorhome with the friend of Sean Murphy, Glenn Carroll who’s shop is just outside of Ottawa. I also made reservations at Rideau Heights Campsite just south of Ottawa. So our day begins. We were on the road by about 7:15 am. I wanted an early start, not knowing how long it would take us to reach Glenn Carroll’s shop. We hit some construction on the way but only about 6 miles north of Smiths Falls and some real rough road after that for about 10 miles and I mean real rough. Still we made good time and ended up at Glenn Carroll’s shop about 9:30 am. They checked my timing and the exhaust manifold gasket was leaking on the passenger side of the engine and we were very lucky they took us right away. Mind you I had called the day before but they are still having to fit us in and it is a busy shop. Glenn operated right out of his home property and has a nicely set up shop. We met his wife, his two boys about 8-12 and his dad who stopped around later in the morning. I missed the name of the chap that worked on the motorhome but a very congenial chap. Visited with a couple of the customers and the morning passed fairly quickly. I had a chance to do some and had a little nap also. They sent the wrong bolts the first time and had to reorder them, other than that we would have been out of there by noon, as it turned out it was 2:30. Glen apologized but I said we weren’t complaining, we were just happy he was able to fit us in. He was very reasonable with the costs also, which was nice to have happen. We stopped in a shopping center outside of Ottawa and picked up a few groceries. Then traveled on to the campsite we had made reservations at last night. We pulled into the campsite about 5:30 pm which is a nice time to stop. Gives you time to eat and cleanup and it is still early in the evening. I had planned on staying at the Ottawa Municipal Campgrounds but this lady Willa had met said this was such a good campsite. I have to say it has only two well maybe three real drawbacks. One: the bathrooms aren’t very nice, Two: we are just east of the flight path for a major airport, Three: The Via Rail tracks are just behind the campsite (HERE COMES ONE NOW. CAN YOU READ THIS OVER THE NOISE?). The rail is not toO bad, they are going slow and you hardly hear them. We bought our first feed of corn for this year at a grocery store we stopped at earlier. Peaches and Cream I think. It was very good and only about $1.99 per dozen. Made for a nice supper. Tegan is just having a shower and then we will walk up to the main street to see about a bus to downtown Ottawa for tomorrow morning and around the campsite. This should be interesting. Want to take the address of the campsite with us tomorrow in case we get lost. Very tired tonight so I think I will be into bed early. Didn’t travel too far today, only about 70 miles. When we leave Ottawa we go to Quebec City and that is about 272 miles. We will be up early on that one because it will be heavy traffic. Try and be on the road by about 6:00 am. Willa and I went for a walk earlier in the evening and noticed a taxi parked at a house just up the street from the campsite. We had decided to take a cab into Ottawa because I wasn’t too sure about the buses. So we knocked on his door and made arrangements for him to pick us up at 8:00 am in the morning, His name was Mike, an older gentleman could have been 60 or 65, very nice man and very accommodating.