Got me some work to do!

ralph day wrote:
Just back from a month on the Rock. Great place to visit, but a little cold in June. Just as we left July 8 there seemed to be an awful lot of out of province campers arriving...good time to bug out.

A personal observation: Newfoundland campers must only have little motorcycle batteries in their campers...the generator gets fired up as soon as the wheels stop moving it seems, and run as long as allowed until wheels are moving again :) I'm spoiled by a solar panel and group 31 battery I guess. But I'd go again in a heartbeat!

Ralph

Not sure where you stayed, but we normally don't hear quite THAT much generator noise. However, as always, there are exceptions to all rules. Only over the past year or two have solar systems become affordable here. Due to the popularity of alternative energy systems, a few locals have finally started to serve the fledgling market. Up until now, the shipping cost for a system has cost as much as the system! Having said that, with the amount of sun we get here relative to the rest of North America (ESPECIALLY THIS YEAR!!), I figure I'd need an incredible solar capacity on the roof just to break even. Bear in mind that I stay in a lot of fairly treed and shaded spots also. The city of St. John's (near where I live) is the foggiest, windiest, cloudiest (and one of the rainiest) city in Canada. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._John%27s,_Newfoundland_and_Labrador#Climate I guess the only thing we've got going for us in the weather dept. is the fact that the somewhat nearby Gulf Stream regulates our temps to some degree in the winter for such a northerly area. We're actually the mildest in the winter in Canada except for some locations in British Columbia.