OK, so today we got our battery problem fixed (I think). Thanks to Roger and Matt at Global Expedition Vehicles we were put in touch with Welch's RV Service a local Sault Ste Marie RV sales and service business. There we met Jim the manager and big Dave the technician who worked on our camper. Early in the diagnosis and repair process a second Jim arrived. A previous owner of a Unimog 404 he was curious about our yellow monster. After a little conversation he offered to buy us coffee at the cafe next door. There we met our third Jim of the day (the owner of the cafe).

Fortunately our battery problem turned out to be nothing more complicated than a bad connection. The charger and battery monitor were not seeing the true battery voltage and this threw the whole charging/monitoring process out of whack. Mind you the fix took a number of hours as Dave had to remove one of the batteries and modify the offending connection. It was a good thing that Dave turned out to be a big strong guy as those batteries weigh 160 lbs a piece.

With the repair saga over we had lunch in Jim's cafe, fueled up and got under way over the bridge into Canada. Once through customs we called into the local information center who directed us to the local office of the Canadian Automobile Association. Over the past few days Nina has been going crazy because she has been unable to find any good info on our proposed route through Canada to Ottawa and beyond. But the CAA office fixed that, she returned from her visit there with a huge pile of books, maps and pamphlets.

We drove east for a few hours and found a commercial campground at a place called Serpent River, ON. There is surprisingly little development along our route considering we are traveling the main (only ?) transcanada road.