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A Close Call In Northern Ontario: Courtesy Of GPS

Take A Rest, But No Overnight Parking There are signs all along the highway through Northern Ontario that say “fatigue kills-take a rest”. However, every rest area also has signs that state “No Overnight Parking”. And this isn’t just a request. I later learned that it’s illegal to overnight in your vehicle at any rest area in Ontario. So when I spent the night in the empty parking lot of the…

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Welcome To Ontario

Northern Ontario: Eery, Enchanting And Full Of Mystery The scenery is beautiful  on the stretch of the Trans Canada Highway through Northern Ontario.  But it’s marked by an unsettling sight. The countless graffitied or burned motels decaying along the shoulders of this highway are a stark a memorial to a time that disappeared in a haze of technology. Some blame the failure of the motel industry…

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Choosing a Route From Alberta To Ontario: Time To Get Ready For Travel

Flexibility is key to Nomad Life So, I hemmed and hawed deciding how I was going to get from ALberta to Ontario this year. The obvious route is via the Trans Canada Highway 1.   However, this route takes longer than an alternate route through North Dakota, and Wisconsin to Sault Saint Marie (pronounced SOO saint Marie) which promises cheaper fuel and a chance to pick up my favourite Mexican…

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Driving The Trans Canada Highway-Northern Ontario

Northern Ontario Is Beautiful After crossing the border into Northern Ontario, the Trans Canada Highway winds it’s way through the tiny lakes that speckle Ontario’s vast North Country. This is a relatively quiet highway through beautiful countryside. It’s truly beautiful here. I grabbed an overnight spot under the thick trees that lined the edges of a peaceful rest stop before continuing to…

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Alberta To Ontario Time To Get Ready For Travel

Flexibility is key to Nomad Life.   So, I hemmed and hawed deciding how I was going to get to Ontario this year. The obvious route is via Trans Canada Highway 1.   However, this route takes longer than an alternate route through North Dakota, and Wisconsin to Sault Saint Marie (pronounced SOO saint Marie) which promises cheaper fuel and a chance to pick up my favourite Mexican staples that aren’t…

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Fit To Be Towed: Jeep Wrangler Towing System Setup

Getting the Jeep ready for towing involved setting up a Blue Ox Towing System Getting Ready:  Towing The Jeep Wrangler Behind The Motorhome As much as I love my home base in Comox Valley, I’m ready to leave for a few months.  It’s hard to imagine leaving these forested and sandy beaches. But if I’m being honest, I’ve been ready to take off for a few months, but in true boomer fashion, I’ve been…

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What The Neighbours Are Up To: What's up with RIMPAC?

A parade of 12 US navy planes appeared over Comox What The Neighbours Are Up To In Comox (RIMPAC) It’s been an unusual near year, after hyper-extending my knee in a cycling accident in Winnipeg last year. However, I am finally on the mend, thanks to a great physiotherapist.  It’s partly due to daily workouts at the 19 Wing Fitness Centre at the airforce base in Comox.   It’s great to have a gym…

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The Grech Turismo Ion Tour: A Trip To Riverside, California

  But First: A Little Background Into My Trip Recently, I traveled to the Grech RV showroom in beautiful Riverside California.  It was a first class experience from start to finish.  Our team stayed at the absolutely delightful and historic Mission Inn Resort And Spa.  What a cool place.  It’s an architectural marvel, with secret staircases, stained glass windows,  chapels, antiques and…

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Hi Again- Here's What I've Been Up To

My Latest RV Review- The Grech Ion Tour I travelled to beautiful Riverside California to see Grech RVs in person to write the my first  RV reviews for RV Trader   RV Trader reviews Sorry I haven’t written for a while. Did you miss me? I’ve been keeping busy with a new project for RV Trader. It’s been keeping me busy checking out and reviewing some of the top RVs on the market. I’m not gonna lie,…

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RV Electrical Issues: Solving A Burning Question In My RV

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Little Bighorn

The saga continues as we take in some indigenous perspectives in Wyoming.

Memorial for Soldiers, Scouts and Civilian Dead At Little Bighorn Battlefield , Shutterstock Little Bighorn: Come For The Memorial, Stay For The Bannock We passed the over the rolling, golden hills, through the valleys and past a lot of sombre white crosses that marked the places where people had died in the midst of their journey. As we approached the Little Bighorn Battlefield monument, the…

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Catching Up As We Cross Into Wyoming

We've got a lot of catching up to do- We had a series of totally unexpected events as I decided which way I would travel.

We’ve Got A Lot Of Catching Up To Do So…we’ve got a. lot of catching up to do. Here’s what’s happened since my adventures in South Dakota.  Even though the RV technician in West Fargo had given me the green light, and said he couldn’t find a problem, I was still worried.  I still had a bad feeling about the smoke coming from the electrical panel a few days before. The feeling that something was…

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Using Dog Language To Train Dogs

Use Dog Language To Up Your DogTraining Game No matter what we’re teaching a dog, it’s crucial to be able to read dog body language. Then we can offer a visual cue as a means of letting him know what we want him to do. Obviously, inter-dog communication doesn’t use verbal language like we do. Instead, dogs communicate via complex combinations of body postures, movements, facial expressions and…

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The Badlands Banshee

The Badlands Banshee:      Terror Of The South Dakota Badlands The Badlands Banshee: Terror Of The South Dakota Badlands There’s a local legend in the Badlands that was told to me by a cowboy I ran into in Deadwood in the Black Hills of South Dakota.. That being said, here’s the tale, as best as I can remember it:  A long time ago, three cowboys were passing through the Canyon on their way to…

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Teach your dog to come with these essential games!

ROCKET RECALLS TAKE TEAMWORK Train your dog to come for a better relationship Training Your Dog To Come When You Call Training your dog to come when you call is one of the best gifts you can share with him. A dog with a reliable recall gets to enjoy time off-leash. He gets to have more fun than a dog that has to be leashed all the time. He also gets to enjoy a more connected relationship with…

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How To Potty Train A Puppy Fast

How To Potty Train A Puppy (Or Adult Dog) What is the easiest, fastest way to potty train a puppy? Potty training your new puppy is easy if we give the puppy what he needs to learn. It’s important to follow a plan that sets your puppy up for success by preventing accidents (as much as possible) and heavily rewarding the action of eliminating outdoors. Here are 6 easy steps that make it easy for…

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How to Train Your Dog to Retrieve

Photo by Aloïs Moubax on Pexels.com Training your dog to retrieve reliably is fun Dog training should be fun! Training your dog to retrieve means teaching him to bring a toy, dog training dummy or any other object back to you on a cue. Retrieving objects is fun and it’s really great exercise that involves many rewarded repetitions of cooperation with the handler. Retrieving has good side…