This year dollar is about .97 per US dollar, almost at par. For us Canadians that means very affordable travel. The TSX (Toronto Stock Exchange) is at 11,500 points, so the market is climbing, slowly, but climbing. Gas this year, is a little less than last, I paid about 90 cents per litre when I filled up the truck yesterday.
Last year the news was all about Obama’s run at the presidency and the upcoming economic crash. This we, in Canada at least, are viewing the downturn in our rear view mirrors and are now completely focused on Swine, oops, H1N1 flu.
Our media has to have something right, anyone remember the disasters headed our way for Y2K?
As we cross the border today we do it with both calm and excitment. Our world is working just fine, we have adjusted to living in less than 300 square feet and , incase you haven’t noticed, look forward to our new adventures. We leave behind a lot of good friends and family, but we’ll return, I promise, with more fond memories of even more good friends.
NuWa Industries, the manufacturer of the quality Hitchhiker 5th Wheels announced yesterday that they are starting up production. That’s great news in an industry that sorely needs all the good news it can get. When they closed their doors last fall I believe they said they might be back when they could see some light at the end of the tunnel. Looks like that moment is about to arrive.
We live and travel in our RV fulltime these days, chatting it up with fellow RVers everyday. I can assure you the RV lifestyle has never been in jeopardy but the RV Industry certainly has been and I doubt that it’s over yet.
So, on St Patty’s Day, 2009 we tip a pint of green beer to NuWa Industries. Welcome back, we missed you.
The big day finally arrived and so today we put on our finest “Sunday Go To Meeting” clothes and headed off to Stroke Clinic at the Hamilton General Hospital.
The bad news is that I have a couple of restrictions in the artery on the right side of my brain, I guess that and the blood pressure caused the mini strokes. The good news is that they actually found a brain. They’ll look at the arteries’s in the spring when we get back, in the interim, I get to keep the brain.
So, you gotta understand we are a little happy. We are treating the news rationally and in an adult manner. We are not going to rush off and get on the road right away or anything silly like that.
We don’t plan on leaving til tomorrow.
Where are we going you ask? Good question. We can go anywhere in North America We are sticking with South.
