Sunday, July 4, 2010

As we are still having a persistent propane leak in the new Flying Scotsman we headed off to Barrie, Ontario, for the closest Damon dealer to try to fix the problem. Barrie is a really picturesque town of about 120,000 about an hour and a half north of Toronto.


It is located on Lake Simcoe which is a very large lake and the waterfront with its condos and the tour boats were particularly nice. As we had all day Wednesday to be out of the RV we spent a bunch of time shopping and seeing the city. We had dropped the pets at Grandpa's place for the couple of days. Although the weather looks nice in these photos it was a blustery 55 degree day where our light jackets didn't stop the wind very much. Time on the waterfront and in the park were limited.




Because Barrie is about an hour and a half from Meaford we booked into the KOA there so we didn't have to rush the repair process. The Barrie KOA is by far one of the finest they have in the system. This is a 90 foot concrete pad located in the restricted "adults only" part of the facility and is what all RV park pads should look like.




Really nice to be out of the mud and kids and campfires for a couple of days.




For those of you with some sort of RV machine here is what the epitome of hookups should look like; including 50 amp service and two sewer openings to conform to your particular vehicle.




And just before the pizza delivery arrived from the KOA pizzeria the blogger toasts the facility with some scotch.






The bottom line on the Barrie trip was that the repair place has to order parts so we will be back, we got to see the nice city of Barrie, and got to experience a state-of-the-art camping experience.