Montreal!

And off we go to Montreal! Beautiful roads, scenery and everything else we saw along the way...until you get to about 10 miles from the city. Montreal is a construction zone like they told us later. Just a few minutes before we reached the city, we hit a pot hole the size of Rhode Island, which we managed to avoid with the Xterra, but the trailer wasn't so lucky. We couldn't stop and check because it was a highway and traffic was heavy, so we continued to a Walmart we had already on Mr. Garmin.
Once we got there, we parked and went into Cubby to check for damage. Well, let me just say that the whole floor on the right side  had risen about 2 inches and the counter with the sink and the stove was above the lower part of the window. So what do we do now? We called a local RV repair shop and the guy tells us it's an insurance claim, because it was an accident. To make things short, we called our insurance and they assigned us the wrong person 3 times, so we had to wait until the next day (Friday) when they finally told us they don't have any adjuster in Canada. They called a local insurance guy who came and assesed the damage and said it was indeed coused by a pot hole. So we had the green light to take it to a shop. Once we found one online and called, the guy said he could come take a look at it on Saturday and nothing could be done until Monday anyway. He then came to look at it and said we needed a new floor because the one he had was rotten anyway besides being broken, so we took it to his shop, left it there, and went to a hotel, compliments of our insurance company.


On Monday our adjuster told us that the price to fix it was too high so they would declare it a total loss and give me a check for the value of Cubby! We didn't want to do that so we asked if we could buy it back. They said that that was possible and they would deduct the salvage value of it and send us the difference. That worked out in our favour because they ended up sending us $500 more than what we paid for the repairs. Not too bad after all!
We ended up spending 8 days in Montreal, so we really got to know the city! They had a festival going on that weekend with a "Pirate" theme, so we saw old French pirate ships, French pirate bands (they were extremely good by the way) and we went to every museum and cathedral we could find. We loved our time in Montreal but spending 8 nights there was pushing it a little bit!



View of two monkies at the biodome

The biggest Catholic chuch in the continent until the 1850`s

Great view of the city of Montreal

We thank our friend Andrew so much for helping us fixing Cubby for a very fair price and for doing in in 4 days, when it would usually take at least 2 weeks. The whole gang was great and got us out of there in no time!

This was our old floor!! New floor pic to come.

So off we went on our trip to Patagonia. Next stop, Ottawa! Some interesting stories to tell about that one also so don't miss it! Our trip is still pretty much just starting and it has been really exciting to say the least!

We have added a roof storage thingy and we are set!