And still it rained. Now it was cold, too. Fire up the furnace, Jeeves.
At least we could have a decent shower on board.
A very slow start was made slower by bacon and eggs, cooked in our electric skillet. It's a fine contraption but not quite as non-stick as the manufacturers claim. Typical Canadian Tire rubbish!
We were putting off the hitching as long as we could because of the rain but it just kept coming. So it was that at 11:30 I ventured outside into the deluge. When we're hot and bothered in Florida in the summer, we'll look back and laugh at this; plodding about the long grass in temperatures that barely reached 7 degrees Celsius with rain dripping down our necks.
Everything outside (cables, hoses and the like) was wet and muddy; I just threw them into their respective totes and made a note to dry them off later. Once hitched, it was a tight turn to get out of the camp site then we headed off to the dump station. I was wet already so another 15 minutes in the rain wasn't going to hurt. Yet another dump station with no water supply with which to flush the tank, although there was at least a reasonably high pressure jet that I could hose down the poo pipe with.
Leaving the park was interesting with a very steep hill up and a left at the top; with the rain and dirt on the road it fair had the fronts spinning as I attempted to get the trailer going. Still, we made it and headed back towards the 403 and home.
The rain and spray made the journey less fun. The McKesh extension mirrors were covered in rain and not really very useful and to top it all there was a stiff cross wind. However, we continued our experiments with getting the fuel consumption optimised. We really only got about 22 litres per 100 Kms (11 m/US Gal) but then the wind wasn't helping much. I did get to push the speed up on occasion and enjoyed the relative assurance that the trailer was good and true behind us.
It was still raining hard when we arrived home and once parked on the drive, we unhitched and headed right inside, glad to get out of the cold and wet.
We did have a good weekend, though. We didn't think much of Brant, but we liked Brantford. We loved Can Am for helping with the water heater and we tolerated the shopping. We HATED the rain and the cold but, as I said earlier, it's all experience. Roll on summer!
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