On Sunday morning (Halloween) I mentioned to Bev that we could be in Sarnia by midnight if we left after the kids came around for candy. She said she would think about it. In the early afternoon she said let's go for it because the weather forecast was for -3C overnight and in Sarnia, the forecast was +3C .Since we didn't want to risk freeze-up damage to the water system we agreed to head out for Sarnia after Battle of the Blades program ended at 9PM.
In the commercial breaks before the show ended, we scurried around setting the thermostat back to 9C for the winter and unplugging the various electrical devices throughout the house. At the end of the show, we both went to the john, turned off the water to the house, pulled the plug on the TV and receiver, then hustled out the door into the motorhome. Our neighbour Bob was there to see us off. When we return in the spring, he probably won't be our neighbour anymore as the house is up for sale. We will be extremely sad to see him go. Thanks, Bob, for all your kindness and support over the years.
At 11:30 PM, we stopped in London at the Flying J because we were in need of fuel. We decided that we would stay here for the night and settled down with about 10 other rigs all on the same mission southward. We awoke to 2C weather outside and the front room of the motorhome was 4C. We had stayed snug and warm in the bedroom for the night with the separate furnace for that room. Everything around was covered in frost, windshields, grass, fields...but no overnight freeze damage.
We started out the next morning about 8:30 AM and hit the duty free store about an hour later in Sarnia. By 10:30 AM, we had cleared US customs in Port Huron Michigan and were underway to brother Don's in La Porte Indiana.
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