It's been about a half a month since I've written - basically this is because Chris and I have been at my folks house and this blog is largely for my family.
To recap life, we've been having a lot of changing of plans. Between miscommunications, lack of funding, and general confusion we've gone through several plans. The basic thoughts on life are as follows:
Driving our new(to us) motorhome up would cost all in all approximately $3000
Driving our car without hotels would cost all in all approximately $1000
Driving our car AND taking the ferry (to avoid Canada's border crossing) would cost about $2000
Driving our new motorhome AND taking the ferry would still cost about $3000
Flying up and buying a beater car would cost about $2000
Costing all in all included food cost, gas cost, passport cost, room-in-the-ferry cost, with about 1 or 2 hundred wiggle room. I ALWAYS program wiggle room into my plans.
We took the "cheapest" route. It's got a lot of room to go wrong but I have faith. It is not just the cheapest. I secretly really wanted to drive up, even if we can't take all the time in the world this time around to see everything there is to see. It will be an amazing trip and we will still get to see a lot of beautiful sights.
The most expensive and risky part of the trip is actually the passport portion. Passports for two people expedited we suspected would cost $520. We were luckily mistaken as we were calculating for both the book and the card. It cost almost half that in reality, now we just have the risk of getting across the border. Canadian border crossing can be iffy from what we've heard, and they can refuse you for any reason what-so-ever. Anything we can do to help that we are doing. We're trying to make the car look nicer, make sure all our paperwork is in order, everything. Wish us luck on that though.
After that, it should be smooth and beautiful proverbial sailing.
My car, though small, holds a deceptive amount and we are completely confident we can pack everything we need and still have space to kick the seats back to sleep. I hope to be able to hold the bbq that my father has donated to "the cause" in the back and we will be able to cook much of our own food. We plan on taking the tent so that if it is nice enough and we find enough space we can actually camp.
I think it's a good plan that can and will be executed well. My biggest problem is the endless to-do list. We have gotten nearly done with a lot of the things on our list but so little is truly done. It's stressful. I think a lot of the things are basically partial-day-projects, however. This next week we should be able to pull it all together well.
So that's life. Just need to remember - concentrate on the solution, not on the problem. Oh! and to read my next Sword of Truth novel. : D
