July 5th - Fredericton, New Brunswick

Yesterday we drove all day to reach our destination of Fredericton, New Brunswick. We could not believe how hot it got during the day. When we arrived in Fredericton it was 95 degrees, about twenty degrees above normal. There are only two campgrounds near Fredericton. One called "Hartt Island", which had a water park and was $75.00 per night Canadian, and another called "The Heritage" further out of town. We didn't need the waterpark so we made reservations at "The Heritage". When we got here they put us in two back-to-back sites due to the length of our rig. The park was obviously built when rigs were much smaller. Due to a tree and fire pits I had to snake the rig into these sites and only then by rubbing against a tree and pulling ahead into another site and backing up to get straight.  To get away from the tree I had to get as close as possible to the utility pedestal on the other side. Here is a picture.

Yes, it is literally four inches from the side of the rig and between the two slide outs. I connected to the electric on the pedestal and this is what we had for electric.

I will not run the AC on 107 volts. It will damage it. It is new AC unit so I really don't want to do that. We had to hope that the outside temperature would cool down soon so we could sleep. Here is a picture of the inside temperature after an hour of having the windows open and fans running. 

Yep, 88 degrees inside. (Don't mind the time, it is still on Missouri time.) It wasn't cooling down outside or inside. I hated to do it but I had no choice. At 8:00 p.m. I unplugged the electric and turned on the generator. It put out a good 120 volts. We ran the generator and AC for an hour and a half until it lowered the inside temperature to 76 degrees. The sun had set by then so we transferred back to the park electric. Mare has two "Fantastic Fans". They are 12 volt and wonderful. A nice feature about them is that they are reversible. I set both of them to pull cooler air in, rather than trying to pull air out. I found in the past this works better because Marge has poor cross-venilation.

Here is a picture of Kelly and Kellen sitting under the tree trying to stay cool. This picture also gives you a good idea of the problem with the tree that was rubbing down the side of Marge when I was trying to park.

We need to dump the tanks before heading on this morning so I walked up to check out the dump station. Of course we will be approaching it from the opposite direction so I will have to drive through the grass to get to it. This place is poorly laid out for travelers but most of the park is filled with permanent rigs, which is becoming more and more common unfortunately. Next to the dump station is the shower house. I checked it out as well and it is pretty dumpy. We will take showers in Marge before dumping this morning then back into the U.S. today.