As far as the eye can see

Can-Am is a lovely place and the people are super wonderful, however, we have been here almost  two days and it's time for us to move on. They were able to finish a number of the items yesterday, and we were able to take advantage of the repairs last night, but apparently there were still some items that needed to be completed today. I think that they should be finished soon, but it is now getting too late for us to leave today so we will be staying overnight again tonight.

Staying here today gave us the opportunity to go into London to the Bell store where we arranged for our phone coverage last June. Because Verizon's roaming charges are prohibitive, we wanted to buy phone service for the three plus months we knew we were going to be in Canada this summer. We quickly learned that we, on our own, would not be able to do that. In order to get service we needed to be Canadian residents, with a Canadian address and credit history. Fortunately, when we described this predicament to the folks at Can-Am, the daughter of the sales manager, who sold us our Airstream, volunteered her good name (Kathleen Watterton) to establish phone coverage. A college student, she was working at Can-Am for the summer, so she went with us to the Mall Bell store and she used her name to establish an account. Other than being in her name, everything else is in my name and sent to my email address, including online account management and, of course, the monthly bills. 

This arrangement has worked just fine. When I asked John Watterton, Katie's dad, if Katie had been inconvenienced, he said, "No". But, since we don't plan on coming back to Canada until next summer, it's time to cancel the phone service. To no surprise, when we went to the store, we were told   that phone service cannot be cancelled at any store and that Kathleen will have to call and cancel the service herself. I have all the numbers for Katie to use when she calls and when we came back to Can-Am and told John what was needed of Katie, he said he would get Katie's email address for me (he said he has four kids and can't keep all of their email addresses in his head). We also learned that Bell has a thirty-day cancellation policy, so the service will run for another thirty days, and be billed to us, of course.

We really can't complain, we are extremely grateful to Katie, and her Dad, and we couldn't have managed four months in Canada without phone and, especially, internet service. 

 Last night we stayed overnight in the parking lot that is at the side of the building and it was much quieter than Monday night. The highway running in front of Can-Am is very busy because it is a connector between #403 and #401, the route to Port Huron/Sarnia. At least on the side of the building we are further from the road and protected from the road noise on one side. 

Behind the service building are the storage lots for winterized RVs. Here is a line of winterized Airstreams as far as the eye can see. 

More Airstreams in storage, along with a few non-Airstreams.

It was pretty scary, walking through the Hundson's Bay Company store at the mall; we came upon this Christmas tree. Fortunately this was an isolated display, to promote their Trim-a-Tree department elsewhere in the store, and does not represent store-wide decorations. That would be way too early, although I did think that, after all, it is after Thanksgiving in Canada.

On our travels through this huge mall, we came across that wonderful word - chocolatiers. This is a Purdy's store; a British Columbia-based chocolate company. Kate, above, was extremely helpful in explaining Purdy's chocolates and offering tastings of their various offerings.

This is Purdy's eye-catching store. The orange is more fall foliage color than Halloween.

Back at Can-Am we met Dave, who was waiting for diagnosis and repair to his 25' Airstream. Retired, he lives about three and half hours from here and spends his summers out in Saskatchewan. We spent a couple of hours talking Airstreams and places to visit in Saskatchewan. 

About this picture. This morning, at about 8:30am when we were leaving our Airstream to come into the waiting room, I saw a flock of huge Canadian geese dive in for a landing to the field across the street from Can-Am. Then when we left for the mall we saw the geese eating the remains of this harvested field. At the time I thought it would be an interesting picture for the blog. But, like so many other times before, we did not stop to take the picture. What you see is the field without the geese. What it does show is that there has been plenty of rain in London this summer, unlike in New England.

Yeah!! Success!!!  As we were leaving the parking lot later this afternoon there were the geese.  I crossed the road to take a picture and as I approached the field the geese all rose up and took flight. I think you can still see them flying down the rows.