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Published: November 15th 2012
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Monday, September 10th, it is 63 degrees this morning with blue skies. Drove back from the "country" into the town of Kitchener a different way than we traveled before. It is a larger town than we first saw, with a large college campus and nice neat residential areas.
Located the Roadtrek dealer and went through the repairs we needed fixed. Most important was to fix a solenoid that had been replaced in Florida and was not working by the time we got home to Georgia. We also had them replace a light fixture that was close to my head, when I sat reading, that gave off a good deal of heat, with an LED fixture. This was all completed by early afternoon and so we took off heading south to camp along Lake Erie.
We maneuvered through the town of Cambridge on highway 24 and then drove through farm country where we were surprised that they were raising tobacco and some crop that we couldn't figure out. The rows looked somewhat like strawberries being grown, but they were covered over with a net-like "roof" to provide shade. We asked at the campground and were told that it was ginseng
being grown. Apparently, when the bottom fell out of the tobacco market (this area had accounted for 80%!o(MISSING)f all Canadian tobacco), the Canadian government helped farmers find alternative crops of which ginseng was one.
We had dinner in Rosie at a park in an old, historic community. An hour or so later we pulled into Hidden Valley Campground at Turkey Point after dark. Here we started having electrical problems with our rear overhead lights. Fuses were being blown as soon as we replaced them--sparks flying.
Tuesday, September 11th. After looking at Turkey Point marina, we drove back to the RV dealer in Kitchener on a different road through the very interesting town of Brantford to get the electrical stuff fixed. Many of the towns we traveled through in this part of Canada had 1812 banners on the light poles to celebrate the 200th year of that War. They had British flags on one side and US flags on the other. Of course, this is the area that saw most of the fighting besides DC and the Naval battles in New Orleans and Baltimore.
The RV technician said that the fixture he put in
must have been bad and that was what was causing the problem. He installed another fixture. The large light fixture was not working by now and he said they didn't have a replacement in stock. So off we went again. This time, we took highway 8 out of town and then dropped on the 403 freeway and wandered through the city of Hamilton on our way toward Niagara Falls.
From Hamilton, we drove over to highway 8 again; it was a two lane road that paralleled the freeway and went through small towns and fields of grapes and orchards of apples and pears. As we were unable to find an RV park, we turned to the Harvest Host program we subscribe to and found a local farm/vineyard that would allow us to dry camp on their property for free. This was Puddicombe Farms and as you can see by the pictures a very old, old, established place. If you look carefully, you can see a standing rabbit in the picture Valerie took of a tree. Rosie was parked directly across from it.
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