The Trip

Ok, I think I'm ready to talk about the trip now.

Let me get right to the good stuff:

- 1PM Leave Ottawa
- 3:30 - pulled over by Quebec dept. of motor vehicles
- these are the guys who flunked out of the RCMP and spend the rest of their lives trying to make up for it by giving people a hard time and throwing their authority around
- 4:00 - looks the truck over and wants to check through the back
- 4:05 - takes my license
- 4:10 - threatened to have the truck impounded by rent a cops
- 4:15 - takes a photo copy of my license, says it is not good enough to drive this vehicle (according to U-Haul anyone who breathes can drive it), I have a license for driving fairly large trucks and can't imagine why that would be the case
- 4:20 - mis-reads the english on the back of my license to indicate that I can only drive vehicles of 4500 kg or less (but it really is describing my being able to tow something while driving an 11000kg truck that is not more than 4500kgs
- now I start to think .. our van is about half of 4500kgs... so what truck with air brakes could possibly weigh 4500kgs or less...
- 4:30 they tell me to find another driver with a proper license or they will two the uhual away and it will not be released until I find someone who can drive it.. "don't you know anyone in Montreal with a truck drivers license they ask?"
- I phone around and there is no-one who can help
- 4:45 - I ask to see my license and start to try and convince them it is fine for me to drive
- 5:00 - more convincing
- 5:10 they agree to call the head office
- 5:15 they find that infact my license is just fine for this vehicle
- 5:30 appologies and send us on our way...
- 12 midnight - we arrive at our B&B - lovely place actually "Mont Assumption B&B" in grandfalls NB, an older couple have kept an old monestary as a B&B ... I think it was a monestary...
- 9am the next day, we're back on the road
- 10:30 stop to by some gas in NB and my credit card is frozen due to suspected fraud... yes the suspect is me, crossing the countrying buying all this gas for a truck and van...
- 45 minutes later that is fixed up and we are back on the road..
- the rest of the trip is uneventful... we arrive at the farm around 6pm on Monday night... phew...

Since then we've been unpacking and getting settled, the guys are in soccer and it's been starting this week. Lot's of rain has been falling... that gets a bit depressing but hopefully we'll see sun soon.

By for now friends.
/michael