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Day 2.  5/3/18  Today we head to another country.  Canada.  We have our passports and copies of Gracies rabies shot.  Have filled with gas across the street from the campground at the Safeway station.  Will have more to add as the day progresses.
Well after a rather uneventful crossing we are in another country.  Air smells the same, cars and traffic look no different, nor the people.  We pulled into Capilano River RV Park a little after 2 in the afternoon.  After a very nourishing lunch at Subway we are now in our space.  The spaces are so tight that we had to ask for another one as both sides of our trailer were touching the picnic tables from both sites.  Found another and backed in.  Amazingly we are about 150 feet from a very busy freeway but we cannot hear it.  We did have one casualty of a beer that had fallen out of the refrigerator and spilled on the floor.  Additionally, our coffee grinder fell out of a cabinet and we had to harvest a whole pound of beans from the floor.  After setting up the trailer, connecting the water, electricity, sewer hose and putting down the stabilizer jacks, I was pooped.  So fell into a well needed nap while
Sue and Gracie toured the campgrounds and spoke with as many people as she could.  When I awakened, we put out our lounge chairs and whittled away the afternoon, reading.  Had a pretty unexciting dinner of some Costco polish dogs and a coke.  Tomorrow we start exploring Vancouver.

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  1. Carol JoMay 4, 2018 at 4:12 PM

    I’m guessing you got all your medications. Have fun.

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