We always talk about our RV family, the people you met on the road that quickly become part of your life, well in August of 2018 that was Robert and Susan. We were in the Codroy Valley in Newfoundland, staying at a beautiful park on the Codroy river when we met Susan at the community camp fire. She was playing guitar and singing the songs of Newfoundland when Laurie and her hit it off she had just closed a house deal and were ordering a wide body Mercedes Pleasure-Way van to travel but it wouldn’t be ready till the spring of 2019. Her hubby was cooking at a mining camp for a few weeks and would be joining her soon.

They had rented a trailer at the park and were going to stay there till the end of the camping season, then they were going to house sit a home in Nova Scotia for the winter until their van was ready. And of course visit with family on the island as well over the winter. Susan was from the Codroy Valley and Robert was from Port Aux Basque which is on the south west tip of the island and where one of the ferries from the main land docks. So we had the best tour guides for that area, with many adventures in the area with the history from the locals. Took us to some of their favourite spots and restaurants, introduced Laurie to a touton which is bread dough fried in a cast iron skillet which when stuffed with bacon was Miss Laurie’s new go to for breakfast when out.

Susan had worked in health care and Robert had been on the ferry for many years, some of the tales of their lives were great, and we have become true friends. So when we heard they were in Ontario to pick up their new van we made a point to meet them for dinner, they were staying with family in Woodstock ON, which is my home town so we met them for dinner at a local restaurant to catch up on the past eight months…and when they found out we were managing a campground only an hour and a half away they came to spend a few days on the shores of Lake Huron so we could really catch up.

And now they are headed off to visit more family in the Milton area before taking the van back to Newfoundland to pick up all their thing that are in storage (you can only bring so much on the flight) and how to be heading back across the country in September so maybe our paths will cross again soon. It is always hard to so real friends go but it makes seeing them again so very sweet.

We have just went through a full day of downpours of rain, there is not a dry site on the campground. We are talking a lot of water that can’t even start to get away.

This is a photo of the field behind us the field that was tilled and planted last weekend and now it is a small lake, this rain came fast and furious for hours at a time. Thunder storms are intense but short lived normally. But this not so much, there some areas of the park that had 10″ or 25cm of water sitting. And just to add insult to the day between the storms the sun was out and was very humid at 22 or 76 degrees.

Bonnie and Richard left Tuesday and are not back till Sunday, I have talked with a number of people with concerns, but all and all everyone is taking it in stride. Kids playing in a huge puddle that is in the middle of your site, is not something I would be taking as well as they are. We can’t control the weather but if this is the new normal than we will need to adapt and quickly.

Notice the concrete blocks that they have placed to get in and out of the trailer, not a good impression for new seasonal campers, and notice the fire pit surrounded by water, tough to keep a fire going there. Laurie is convinced that Mother Nature is either off her meds or is high on the pot smoke here in Canada Eh.