Focht Family Blog

Well… we left Chicago and drove to Michigan to get the oil pan fixed. I took the kids to a hotel for the night so we could sleep in and have somewhere they could keep out of trouble while the oil pan was being worked on. Nathan and Misty stayed with the RV. After the oil pan was fixed, we headed toward Canada. Here is the bridge going into Canada from Detroit.

Here are the kids sitting buckled up on the couch waving goodbye to the United States.

We were sent into the truck lines to pay to go over the bridge so we followed the trucks into the border lines. Here is the truck that was ahead of us in line. We thought it looked like he was floating because his back tires are off the ground.

Getting into Canada was an adventure. First, we were supposed to go through the lines with the cars so we were probably making the trucks behind us mad. The border police kept asking us where we were going, how long we would be there and why. Then we had to pull over and everyone and the dogs had to get out while they went through all of our cupboards and storage bays. Next we were sent into immigration and asked all the questions all over again. Seems like a lot of trouble to put a sticker on the map and go camping! :)

Anyways… the first thing we looked for once cleared to enter the country was a place where Nathan could purchase a cell phone and a month subscription for Canada since his current company did not offer any plans that would give him coverage in Canada. Come to find out that cell plans are very expensive in Canada and they have many places where you have no coverage. So… since Nathan has to have a cell phone for work we decided to have dinner at the Applebees at the shopping center and review our options.

We decided that our options were limited so we crossed back into the USA. We thought we would have a problem but I guess having passports they decided we were okay because the USA border police came in and asked us a few questions and sent us on our way without anyone having to get out. Here is the bridge again… this time coming back into USA.

We decided to surprise Nathan’s parents and spend the time we would have been in Canada in NY at the campground that they summer at. We spent the night at a Cabelas in Michigan that had dump and water and then made it into NY by early afternoon on Friday. We will stay here until next Tuesday when we will head to Hershey.