Heading further east...

We decided to head out from Cheticamp today, on our way to Prince Edward Island. With the troubles we had been having with the tow bar, we decided to drive the vehicles separately, so Patti drove Miss Doozie and Dwayne drove the Jeep. We plan to get a extender bar in Charlottetown on PEI tomorrow that we hope will help with the tow bar issues.

Our route took us through Port Hawkesbury where there is a traffic circle. All the roads leading into it seemed to be backed up... really at a stop... not sure what it was because once the traffic started moving, we went through relatively easily. We were at a stop when I took this picture from Miss Doozie of the quarry across the causeway. You may also be able to see traffic on the road down and to the left at a stop, and the traffic on the causeway was also backed up.

 It definitely was not fun driving separately! We stayed on the phone with each other (hands free) at the times that we had phone signal, which was much of the trip.

We are overnighting at the Walmart in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. It turns out that Miss Doozie is parked on a little bit of an incline down, so once we used the air-leveling, the front end was up in the air a little more than usual - so, we decided to try to test the headlights to see if they were getting power.

At about the time Dwayne started to get under the front of Miss Doozie, the generator auto-started.... we cut it off, but realized that we could run it out and get a little more room to get access to the headlights.

 Patti's brother Jimmy helped us out by telephone to help us to read the diagrams of the electrical circuits for the headlights. When we first checked the lights, we were checking the high beams but neglected to turn the high beam switch on inside the bus (duh!). After talking with Jimmy, we went back to check again, and found that there was power going to the wire, but for some reason the bulb was not lighting.

While Dwayne was under the bus, and Patti was handing things to him as he requested, a very nice young man, Jim, stopped by on his Yamaha. He has a Winnebago and so could commiserate with the fact that something always needs fixing. But, beyond that, he hopped off his bike and crawled up under the front of the bus to take a look. He jiggled some wires on the right high beam light and amazingly it came on! He also took a look at the right low beam and said that he thought the bulb was shot on that one. Jim gave us a recommendation of a fellow to see here in New Glasgow who would be able to help us get fixed up - so we're thinking we will try to see him before we leave here tomorrow.

We wanted to say a big Texas-sized "THANK YOU!!!" to Jim who stopped by to help us out!