Saturday, July 11, 2009 – Day 37

In Twilingate, Newfoundland we parked in the parking lot of a small hardware store in the outskirts of town. At 1am there were not many options and we were very tired so we quickly went to sleep in the most convenient spot. With an RV it is easy enough to park wherever there is space.

We were not there long anyways as we woke up early for our 10:30 am iceberg watching cruise. We had enough time in the morning to check in for our cruise, dump and fill our RV with water at the free municipal RV station and have a yummy breakfast. As we walked around the town and information centre we noticed that this...

Friday, July 10, 2009 – Day 36


We had lots of driving ahead of us and so we wanted to get an early start to the driving ahead of us. We wanted to visit Cape Spear and a fishing village on the East coast but our plans were quickly changed as we started to drive away. As we were pulling out for the day, the rear tire of the RV went over a curb.

I looked back and as we went over the curb I saw a burst of air blasting out from the area around the rear tire. I slowly got out expecting to see a completely flat tire but was surprised as it only looked slightly flat. This was definitely not how we wanted to start out the day.
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June 3, 2009 – Day 6

A Gas Leak?
Our family was happy to get to sleep finally around 10pm after a long day of exciting activities the night before. Around 7 am however our Propane Gas Sensor went off, waking all of us up first thing in the morning. We had anticipated sleeping in a little bit. This was definitely not a good sign.

A Gas alarm is not the way you want to be awakened in the morning. We frantically ran around to check where the leak was. We ran outside and turned off the gas valve but it kept going off! We went from stove to water heater, checked inside and...