After spending the night in the Wal-Mart parking lot with lots of other RV-ers we were up early and pulled out by 6.45am and drove for an hour or so before stopping at Tim Hortons at the highway 17/17B intersection near French Bay which we noted as being a potential boondocking spot for the future.
Carried on along highway 17 passing Espanola and got around Sudbury before gassing up at Coniston. Since we'd been on the road since early we scanned the map for a rest area where we could stop for lunch and the only place we could find was just before Beaucage, Ontario.
We arrived at the rest area to find it was on the north (opposite side to us) side of the highway but we pulled across anyway and in to the rest area.
Unfortunately, as we turned we saw a sign informing us that vehicles with trailers (i.e. US!) must not enter as there is no room to turn. It seems an odd place to put that sign, by the time we could see the sign we'd already turned and were committed to going in.
Fortunately the rest area was not too busy and there was room to turn with the trailer attached even if it was a bit tight! Since we should not have been at the rest area we didn't get as much rest as we'd normally have taken so we soon headed off again.
By 4.20pm we were at Rolphton, having completed around 585km so far today and we checked the GPS which informed us that from Rolphton we only had around 250km to home! No point in stopping anywhere for the night except home - yeah!
Excited to be close to home we pressed on again, just stopping at Antrim Truck Stop in Arnprior for gas and to dump the waste tanks before we headed through Ottawa on highway 417. Maybe it was because we were keen to get home but the traffic on the 417 (The Queensway) through Ottawa seemed as bad as anywhere else we'd be though the entire trip (including even Winnipeg).
Regardless, we safely navigated the 417 and the roadwork on highway 174 for the stage 2 of Ottawa's LRT project before backing onto our our drive at 8.30pm, completed today's drive with 837km driven - our new record
TRIP DONE
Our final statistics were a total of 9475km, 134.36 hours of driving, fuel consumption of 18.6l/100kman average speed of 70km/hr, spent $2368.48 on 1762.3 litres of gas at an average of $1.344/litre.
3 comments:
So pleased to have this documentation of your trip - almost 10,000 kms! Wow!
Also I don't know if you're surpirsed by the amount of money you spent, or glad? I feel like under $2500 dollars for 6 weeks of travel including gas is actually pretty good!
Well Certainly and interesting trip and account of the sights and experiences. I guess that last sign is intended to catch those new to trailering. Where is the next big trip going to take you both?
Bruce
Summer 2022 we are planning to go east to NL but with the recent storms washing out bridges and some of the trans-Canada highway we're not sure the road etc will be rebuilt in time :-(
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