We began our travels off the island by crossing the FDR bridge, towards Maine. As we waited at Customs, we admired the lovely views:
It took quite some time to get through Customs back into the USA. First of all, this is a tiny station, normally only serving this tiny island; also, because 25 Airstreams began streaming across the bridge starting at about 9:00… Each trailer was inspected – we had not seen this in our three previous border crossings; apparently they are looking for either animals or people – they opened all the larger cupboards and closets. They also checked the refrigerator, probably for fresh meat or produce. In any case, they let us back into the USA and we were on our way.
We drove generally north, to the Canadian border, and went through Canadian Customs; similar to our last experience, they seemed mostly concerned with things that we might be bringing into Canada and leaving there. Again, I refrained from mentioning the contents of our holding tanks, which we intended to empty at the first opportunity…
Moncton, New Brunswick, is a relatively large town; its claim to fame is that it is the largest city near the Hopewell Rocks, the best place to experience the extreme tides of the Bay of Fundy. (More on this tomorrow…)
So we settled into Campers City RV Resort in Moncton, NB, and readied ourselves for the coming days:
First order of business was to go to Costco and restock the wine and liquor cabinet, since the Canadian Government frowns greatly upon bringing vast quantities of wine and liquor into Canada from the USA. Also, I live on 5-8 bottles per day of Kirkland Vita-Rain water (fake vitamin water that has even fewer vitamins than real Vitamin Water…). And we needed plain Kirkland water for coffee and such. Plus, my daily diet consists mainly of Pure Protein Bars, available only at Costco.
The Costco was only 1.2 miles away; we gleefully set out for our shopping spree.
WORST COSTCO EVER!
First of all, it was backwards… But I could deal with that. But: NO WATER! How can Costco NOT have 2-3 aisles of water? This Costco had NO WATER. No plain water; no sparkling wter; no Gator-Ade; no Vita Rain water. Nothing! Next insult? NO ALCOHOL!!! No Makers Mark, no wine, nothing. Apparently the Canadian Government thinks only the Canadian Government is capable of selling wine and liquor…
Fortunately for me, we did find my protein bars, so we stocked up on them; we are spending the next 5 weeks in Canada: who knows when we will be able to buy them again…?
In any case, we returned to the campground woebegone and wretched. Our spirits picked up a bit as we set about to arrange happy hour: table clothes on the picnic table, chairs, food, wine, etc. All set; then: RAIN! Giant Rain! Pouring Rain! We had checked with Steve Jobs and he had promised: NO RAIN!
We scrambled about, and pulled what we could inside. And we waited. As they say in these foreign parts, “If you don’t like the weather, wait 10 minutes…”. So, after 10 minutes the rain stopped, and we restarted… Happy hours ensued, and an enjoyable time was had by all…
As is our custom, here are our GREAT grandchildren…
Erin, Roisin, and George, looking on…
Ian, and his dad, Kevin:
Adventures in the Villa 
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