Cool Food and Allergies Part 1
On the first of June we packed up and unhooked the Flying Scotsman to go over to the Detroit area. The mission was to get the broken refrigerator fixed and get Jo-Anne's allergy shot; both on June 2nd.
We decided to take the southern route along the freeway system to the Windsor area, a trip of about 320 miles. Because of our recent bad experience at the RV park right near the Camping World in Belleville, we chose to land at the Harbortown RV park in Monroe, about 30 miles from the repair place.
But first. As I said we took the simple way down the 400 to Toronto and then a right turn on the 401 toward Windsor. Ooops! Normally the traffic in Toronto is slow, but upon turning on the 401 we came to a dead halt. Apparently a semi had rolled over and burned about 2am some 10 miles to the east of our stoppage.
After about an hour of slowly creeping toward the wreck scene with 6 lanes of traffic trying to smush politely into the two available, we got to and passed the wreck site. While trying to avoid another accident, we didn't get a picture, but the offending semi was burned to a metal hulk and the hazmat folks were still frantically trying to clean up the charred wreckage; and apparently the driver was OK.
After about 5 hours we got to the border crossing and opted to take the bridge. As we were the only RV in sight the US customs officer decided that he wanted to see what an RV looked like on the inside. We consented and actually had a nice chat about our lifestyle and he then let us proceed.
The skyline of Detroit was pretty neat on a nice 85 degree day although the bridge is in pretty sad shape with much crumbling and rust.
Immediately after going through customs I saw the sign for I-75 North, waited a bit and then the road we were on turned into a city street; we were looking for I-75 South toward Monroe. After touring some of the back streets of a pretty run-down part of Detroit with the now-functioning GPS we finally got onto I-75 going in the right direction ... whew!
Finally we came to our resting spot in Monroe. This RV park is nice and we have stayed here before. The sites are long but quite narrow and the hookups are placed at the very rear of the lot, hence the 20 feet of unused concrete in front of the bus.
The next day we needed to be up at 5am to get the bus over to Camping World about 30 miles away for an 8am appointment. More to follow.
