The last serious one just like this was in Labrador back in October. Then, we had had rain and snow for most of the day and believe me - never mind the rain, I reckon that it was cold enough to snow just now. It was pretty miserable.
I should have gone out to the Vintage Fair at St Maurice but never mind that - I wasn't going anywhere. Instead, I did some more tidying up in here - the desk received my attention today - and I found more stuff that I reckoned that I had lost or misplaced. It's good, this tidying up, I'll tell you. All the rubbish has been binned and so whT I need to do now is to have a quiet evening sorting out the papers and filing them away.
I've also started packing for Canada - putting the 120-volt electrical items in a bag so that they are all together. And one of the advantages of having a North-American satnav is that I can programme it to hold all of the addresses that I've been finding - all the shops I'll be having to visit. I've also prepared 3 notebooks - an A5 spiral-bound notebook with all kinds of useful info and addressed, an A6 spiral-bound notebook for mileages, petrol and expenditure, and an A7 spiral bound notebook and pencil to keep in my pocket. I've also found a couple of folders to put all of the receipts and papers in.
THis evening I've been surfing the web and I've found a 160cm x 70 cm foam mattress in IKEA for $49 and a bed base of similar size for $15:00 so that's my sleeping accommodation sorted out for the back of the van. Canadian Tire do a 60-watt solar panel for $299, plenty of deep-discharge caravan batteries and also, interestingly, a 60-amp-hour battery pack with a built-in 400-watt inverter for $99. All of that looks like it might be extremely useful.
As the day for my departure draws close, I'm getting quite excited.
This evening I
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