Following the Barkers

Following the Barkers

Monday, July 18, 2016

Sunday July 17, 2016 Corner Brook, Newfoundland, Canada

I was up at 7:30.  Gerri slept a little later.  I started our coffee and saw Moe go by.  He had been to a cache along a trail that started just in front of our site.  This was only his second.  Gerri was busy, so Moe and I went to a cache in the RV Park, just 329 feet from our coach.  We were the first to find.

We got ready to roll.  Since the next park in Corner Brook didn't have sewer hookups, I dumped the grey water.  After dumping I pulled along side the office and loaded the pictures for Friday and Saturday's blogs and published them.  We didn't expect wifi in Corner Brook.  Gerri did take  a few pictures along the way.


We were the last to leave Grand Codroy.  We only had 115 miles to travel to Corner Brook.  The highway was good and we spotted one moose.  Not the ones on the yellow signs, but a real one.  It was far off by the woods and there was no place to pull off so no pictures of the moose .

Corner Brook is a sizable town with more services and shopping than some of our stops.  It is at the head of a bay where the Corner Brook River meets the ocean.  There is a large paper mill and docks for ocean going ships including a ferry to Labrador.




Next exit is ours, 7

After parking and getting set up we went to the local Walmart for a few items.  We had gotten a couple remarks about the mud covered Jeep so we located a drive through car wash and got it cleaned up.

Back at the campground we visited with Susan and Brad.  I watched Susan help Moe repair a mirror that had vibrated loose.  Moe came over later and I showed him some of the basics on geocaching.com.  He didn't remember his password so we weren't able to log his three caches.

Gerri baked a chicken pot pie from Costco for dinner and served it with a bean salad.  We were surprised that we had wifi in the RV park and even more surprised how good it was.  After dinner we caught up on some video postings that we hadn't been able to view before.

I stayed up to tune into the webcast from Oakey Blvd.  But apparently they didn't have it working. With the time difference it was 10:30, after a few tries I gave up and went to bed.

Tomorrow we are on our own after a wagon master breakfast.  They are doing a cheese omelet.  If we want more ingredients we have to provide them.  Tomorrow I want to do a few more caches and visit a local railroad exhibit.








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