E26 Back to Nova Scotia and locked out of our RV

Relax RV Podcast

Episode 26
7/2019
So not all good things happen when you're on the road. Got a call that my mother had passed away. We needed to figure out how to get home. Our choices were to take the RV back, leave the RV and fly back or leave the RV somewhere in Canada and drive the Jeep back. We were in Cape Briton Nova Scotia and needed to get back to New York. We had made friends in Nova Scotia so we gave them a call, we explain to them what happened and asked if we can leave the rig at their house so we could take our toad to new york.
They said absolutely no issue at all. Our friend Andrew explained that Bangor Maine was the halfway point so we planned on spending the night there. Planning the trip back to New York I noticed that Cape Britain Nova Scotia was 17 hours from home. Florida is 22 hours from home. I found this to be very interesting in that I had never been to Nova Scotia before but I've been to Florida dozens of times. On the way down we stopped to visit friends in New Hampshire. We weren't in a big rush because my mother's body needed to be sent to New York from florida. We left Nova Scotia the temps were in the 50s and when we got back to New York and the temps were in the 90s.
After the funeral and dealing with family issues we headed back North in our Jeep. When we got to the border border patrol asked where our RV was. We told him and he said you can't do that, you cannot leave a vehicle in Canada if you're not there. I asked what were our options? He said you can get a temporary Canadian registration. And let us go without any further issues. I went online and I looked up Canadian temporary registrations and could not find any information or forms about it. Very weird. I had brought our bear spray to canada in the rig. And each time I'll rig was searched they never mentioned the bear spray and I'm not sure that they saw it. So I asked this border patrol about the rules for bear spray and he said no problem just as long as it says bear spray on the label if it does not say that then it's considered a weapon. We got back to our friends in Nova Scotia and we stayed with them for a few days. A very bittersweet visit reflecting on Mom's passing. While we were there we experienced donair for the first time, it's kind of like a gyro but a Nova Scotia specialty. It was really good. We went to Terrell and they were having a gay pride celebration. We saw a sign at the library that there was going to be a female impersonator children's story hour. Very interesting. Unfortunately we weren't going to be in that area for that. We said our things and goodbyes to our friends and we headed to blomidon provincial Park which was two and a half hours away from our friend's house. We had heard about this park and wanted to explore the area so we were glad to finally get here. It's located on the Bay of Fundy right across the bay from new brunswick. It was 71° and really muggy I guess Canada was starting to warm up for the summer. But then the wind kicked up a fog rolled in and attempts dropped 10°. Lol. Here's the link to the video we made on how we plan our trips.
https://youtu.be/m17giRxNVs0
We had planned to hike cape split near Blomidon. So I walk to the Jeep to get our day packs and our rigs door was locked. We have a class a so we only have one door to get in. Trish was inside so I asked her to unlock the door. She said... the door isn't locked. We had heard that RV locks to fail pretty frequently. And now ours has joined that club. I took the letter to get to our bunk outside the rig so I can climb up and in through the driver window. After 3 hours of climbing in and out of the rig trying to get this lock off so I can get the door open I finally got it. We drove to a RV store they sold this one got back to the rig and it would not fit. We should have brought the old lock with us. We went back to the store and returned it and they did not have our lock in stock. So now with the lock removed we could not just close the door I kept swinging open so I picked up a couple of d-rings and rope at a local hardware store. This way I could tie the door closed as we drove around. So we did not get the hike that area and we're hoping to return at some point in the future. Each time we would stop and need to leave the rig we would have to untie the rope then pull the rope taught close the door and when we returned open the door we tie it with the rope.
On our way to our next boondockers welcome (here’s a link to my discount page for Boondockers Welcome: www.Relaxrv.org/discount )location we stopped at Blue nose RV shop in Nova scotia. They sold us the right lock. When I walked in I just held up the lock and she said wow our lock just broke two days ago and we had to replace it. This had reminded me when we were down in Prince William Forrest in Virginia last year a woman was locked out of her camper and her 1-year-old and her one month old baby were locked inside of the rig. She wanted to get in quickly so I preyed the door open with the crowbar. She was very happy to gain access to the kids.
The next day we took a ferry from East ferry to Long Island in the jeep. It was $7 to go across. We hiked over to balancing Rock which was really cool. And then we took a zodiac boat whale watch in the Bay of Fundy. It was really cool to do a whale watch in the zodiac boat. We saw a bunch of whales. We then went to digby for dinner and Nova Scotia is known for their scallops and they did not fail. The next day we packed up and went on to our next boondockers welcome location.
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