Well, I see I have some catching up to do. I'll do that with my tale of woe! We were supposed to be headed for Nova Scotia on Monday with an overnight in Moncton. Monday morning Mary looks at me and says "I need a lounger!". I looked at her and said "Pardon?". So she repeated herself. I said to her, do you realize how much a lounger is going to cost? She looked at me coyly and said that they are not that expensive. I pointed out to her that we didn't have room in our trailer for a lounger. So we would have to buy a bigger 5th wheel, and that would require a bigger truck to pull it. So we were looking at around $60,000. All because Mary wants a lounger! Now, that's the story, but we already knew that our little Dutchmen wasn't big enough to fulltime in so we were eventually going to move up anyhow, just not as soon as we ended up doing. Anyhow, I went online (little did she know, but I had been searching online for a new truck and trailer anyway) and found a truck in Barrie Ontario, and a 5th wheel in Smithville.

So, Wednesday we left Moncton and made it to Quebec City, Thursday we got to Cobourg Ontario and we were in Barrie early Friday afternoon. We parked the Dutchmen and went to the dealer and in a couple of hours had worked a deal on our new truck. Here she is in all her glory!Ain't she a beaut! It's a 2006 Ford F250 Super Duty Diesel. It's a full crew cab (4 full doors) and a long (8ft) box. Damned thing is 22 feet long! But, way back when we bought our GMC (which Mary picked out!) she said she always wanted a Ford, and now she has one (it's even in her name!).

Anyhow, The truck sits so high that I would have been unable to pull our Dutchmen with it without extensive, expensive modifications to it, so Monday morning we were up bright and early to drive to Smithville to trade in the Dutchmen and buy our new trailer. We were to pick up the new truck on Tuesday, so timing was of the essence. As it turned out, the trailer we went there to look at was unsatisfactory and we ended up buying a trailer that I hadn't even considered online. We had our choice (in our price range) of about 9 different 5th wheels. One was super beat up, two of 'em had bunk beds (like I'm gonna have kids with me). One had a ridiculous floorplan, and two of them were just a couple of years older than what we wanted. Then Mary saw her lounger (two of 'em even in a) Montana, and the shopping was over. And here she is also!It's a 30 footer with a living room and a bedroom slide.Here's a pic of the kitchen area. Lots of cupboard space. And here's the living room area. If you look closely, you can see the two loungers and our big picture window. This is a picture looking from the living room up into the bedroom/bathroom area. This is the bedroom area and the shower. That's a king size bed there! I didn't take a pic of the toilet as, if you've seen one toilet, you've seen 'em all!

We spent the weekend with Mary's sister Theresa and her husband Ron with their new trailer (very nice). Way late nights by the fire, until they couldn't find another stick to burn. We were at a really nice conservation area outside of Kitchener (Laurel Creek). And now we are in a nice campground outside of Milton. We're probably gonna just hunker down here and try to get the budget back inline, and then leave for Florida the end of October, but we'll keep ya's filled in.