Travel Day to St. John’s, NL
This was a travel and relax day. The Paradise Farm RV Park is very low key. It’s more meant for RV campers. The owner told me they get large groups from the states coming up for week long jamborees. It was drizzling a little. I opened the tailgate and had a bowl of cereal with blueberries taking in the view of the lake from the back of the subie.
The trip to St. John’s was easy with views of lakes, rocky shores, tree covered mountains, coves. First stop was Starbucks for Wi-Fi and deciding where to stay. I decided to stay at Pippy Park Campgrounds in St. John’s. They had showers, flushed toilets and laundry and it was close to relatively downtown.
I bought much need groceries across the street from Starbucks and headed off to setup camp. I still needed propane and with googles help I found a U-Haul (avoid) that refills tanks. The guy that filled the tank seemed to not know what he was doing. I’m used to having the tank filled and then paying for the amount they put in the tank. They wanted me to pay for a full tank up front which I obliged. I came out to take the tank and when I lifted it, it didn’t feel full. He reconnected and and I noticed he had his foot on the scale. I wasn’t born yesterday and asked him why he had his foot on the scale. Company policy, he said. Long story short, I got the manager and he filled the tank, no foot on the scale. They offered to refund my money. I’m sure weights and measures would find this process interesting.
Back at the campground, I made myself a four-egg omelet, an arugula salad and poured a beer. Dishes washed, I was off to the laundromat. After three weeks I was running out of some items of clothing. The washing machine took two loonies and three quarters. There was a guy there with headphones that wasn’t doing laundry and he explained a loonie is a one dollar Canadian coin. It comes from the common loon on the backside of the coin. After obtaining change at the main office I had two loads running.
I pulled out the computer and settled in with Wi-Fi. I didn’t realize this was the only spot where Wi-Fi was available in the campground. Around 7:30, after dinner, people started to crowd around this small room. A woman needing to do some “real” work, scored the spot at the small table beside me. I hung out until around 9:15 and the crowd as the was dispersing.