Across Canada ~ Part 1

British Columbia & Alberta:

20 - 27th May, 2017 

Coldstream to St. Albert
880kms - 9 hours driving time

This leg of the trip included stops in Revelstoke to visit  Craig's nephew, Calgary to spend time with Jan's Brother Mike & Teresa, and then St. Albert to visit Craig's Mom and two sisters Trudy & Lynn.

Start of trip:  Odometer reading of 29902kms

Jan is packed!
Wine and Chocolate is all you need!

Beautiful Day For A Drive!

Stop in Revelstoke - Family Visit

Great View Over Revelstoke

Kiel and Jan

Roger's Pass, Glacier National Park
Lots of snow considering it is May!

Avalanche!

And Another One!

Mountain Flower?
Nope, Dandelions!

Fuel Stop In Golden, BC

Lots of Ice Along The Way!

Calgary Bow River Walk
Craig & Jan

Our LTV - minus chrome wheel liners
We prefer the look of the grey wheels!

We arrived in St. Albert to visit Craig's Mom
Surprised to find another 2014 Unity Murphy Bed in the parking lot!
Identical Twins

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Across North America Trip

Heading East!

May 20th to August 20th, 2017

British Columbia to Newfoundland

Approx. 6300kms Direct
But of course we re going the indirect route!

We have always wanted to drive across the country in a motorhome and our LTV Unity is perfect for our trip.  Our schedule will see us stopping along the way to visit family, friends and interesting places along the way.  

These plans stops will include but not limited to:

• Revelstoke, B.C.
• Calgary, AB
• St. Albert, AB
• Yorkton, SK
• Gladstone, MB
• Winkler, MB
• Thunder Bay, ON
• Welland, ON
• Toronto, ON
• New York State
• Ottawa, ON
• Rimouski, QC
• New Brunswick
• Stanley Bridge, PE
• Halifax, NS
• Cape Breton, NS
• Newfoundland for three weeks

This East Bound Trip will end in St. John's NL, which will also be the beginning of our 18 day return trip home.  We have not yet decided if the western trek will be through the USA or Canada.

As this year is Canada's 150th Anniversary and entrance to our National Parks is free we are anticipating busy campgrounds, events and celebrations along the way.

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Parks Canada 150th

Winter Interlude: November 2016 - May 2017

LTV Kozad ~ Winter Rest 👍

After arriving home from our last trip (Vancouver Island) we winterized and parked our Unity for the winter until our planned 3 month trip across North America and over to Newfoundland.

Craig always checks out how our motorhome is doing when it is put to "bed".  In December we noticed that the batteries were charging when they should not have been - when "plugged in" to shore power.

After experiencing "battery issues" on our last outing and were concerned that the 6V house batteries were due for replacement; and now with the continual charging we took the LTV in to be assessed.

What we found was the 30 amp control panel for the solar system was not charging as it should and even worse, was discharging our batteries every night.

We swapped out the defective controller for a new one, under the 5 year GoPower Warranty but unfortunately had to replace the house batteries.  

As we were planning our 3 month trip (May to August 2017) and would be dry camping it was decided to install a second solar panel (150W) along with the original 90W LTV installed panel now provides us with a total of 250W of solar charging.

Our solar charging is amazingly efficient and even on overcast/cloudy days we are being fully charged during the day.

Go Power has a 5 year warranty on their products; they replaced our defective controller and the service was excellent.

New 160W Solar Panel ~ 90W yet to be reinstalled

Installed and ready to go!
Excellent Charging!

15.1 amps is highest charge reading ~ on a sunny day!

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Go Power by Carmanah
We spoke with their service department - Excellent!