RV Checklist Tips for Big Trips: Ferry Bookings, Maintenance & More | Ep 62

Before we roll out on our Grand Tour to PEI and Nova Scotia, we're squeezing in one last episode packed with must-know updates and road trip prep!

In this episode, we break down Ontario’s brand-new licensing changes for RVers (effective July 1, 2025) and what they mean for part-timers, fifth-wheel owners, and travellers across Canada. We’ll also walk through how to book the ferry to PEI—what to expect, what we forgot, and why it’s definitely not something to leave to chance. Plus, we open up our long-haul trip checklist and talk about how prepping for a big road trip is a whole different ballgame than a weekend getaway.

🚐 Need-to-know rules
 🛳️ Ferry booking tips
 🧰 Our real-life pre-trip checklist
 🎧 And a sneak peek at two special guest episodes coming this August!

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Transcript

0 (0s):
Welcome to the RV Canucks podcast, Canada's RV podcast for weekend warriors, part-time travelers and full-time adventurers at heart. Today is July 3rd, 2025 and This is episode 62. I'm m Molina. And

1 (15s):
I'm Dan.

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And we're about to roll on our biggest road trip of the season, a grand tour of the Maritimes, although, sorry, we're not going to Newfoundland, so we'll catch Newfoundland next time. But before we hit the road, we've got one last episode packed with tips, news and some important things coming up for the show. But of course we need to start with a word from our lovely sponsors for 2025 Niagara Trailers. So we're talking about pre-trip checklists In this episode, but I want everybody to know it's perfectly okay if the only item on that checklist is to take your trailer to somebody that you trust. For us, those people are Niagara trailers.

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1 (1m 34s):
Hi Molina.

0 (1m 35s):
So maybe we should start out with a little bit of important news for RV owners in Ontario and it might even matter or be interesting to people who don't live in the province. 'cause I think it, you know, has the potential to signal maybe more changes to come for other provinces?

1 (1m 51s):
Yeah, so the government's made a couple of regulatory changes in Ontario. The province has now made a couple of adjustments to the classes of license and how they relate to different weights. So it used to be that if your, your RV rig was 11,000 kilograms combined weight, you needed a class A or class D license, which are different types of license to essentially DI drive different types of trucks like truck driver trucks. So they've made a, an improvement for RV owners And so in that rate that has been increased to 14,000 kilograms that which means if you are under 14,000 kilograms you can do that on a G license And for the people that aren't in Ontario, a G license is your like standard license that you would get after you turn 16 that lets you drive a minivan, an SUVA four door car.

1 (2m 41s):
So that streamlines things if you do need to get an A license or a D license, they've adjusted the requirements on those and you can get a endorsement for like restricted D, which essentially they've simplified some of the testing and by taking a $23 and 75 cent course you don't need to do the full test, you just need to do a portion that applies to the operation of an rv. So I think that makes it a little bit simpler. Probably makes it a little bit safer in the sense that there's a little bit of training And I like, let's put this in context, it's a $24 course and it's 45 minutes.

1 (3m 22s):
So like I'm not expecting you know, in depth deep

0 (3m 26s):
Theory

1 (3m 26s):
Content. But you know, I think what we need to realize is that a little bit of education, whether you need that course or not might a good idea because many people might not have experience towing or driving something larger And to be able to do something at 14,000 kilograms, which I think is like roughly 30,000 pounds, that's a lot of weight And you know, if you're just under that and don't need the course, it still might be a good idea to have the course because you could just do a, the basic parallel parking driving test and then be driving something pretty big down the street.

0 (3m 60s):
Right, for sure. And what's interesting about this change is that Ontario now joins, I believe PEI is the only other province that has this extension to the limit up to 14,000 kilograms. Everybody else is pretty restrictive. Like I know BC for instance is like anything over 4,600 kilograms, so that's like 10,000, 11,000 pounds you need to have the endorsement on your license. So who knows what'll happen if it'll make other provinces kind of, you know, extend or you know increase the, the weight limit before you require that endorsement. But it's interesting to watch nc.

1 (4m 36s):
Yeah I think it's probably a good change overall.

0 (4m 40s):
Okay, So we are literally a day away from the start of our trip with a pit stop in Ottawa. And if you are just catching this, go back and listen to the last couple episodes where we talk about this being kind of our no plan planning trip. I have never figured out an elegant way to say that but we're winging a lot of it except for a couple of key parts understanding that in Canada especially summer of 2025, the east coast is turning out to be quite the hotspot for people from all over the country to visit. So we know that it's gonna be incredibly busy and we are going to, you know, an island that has limited ingress and egress on and off the island.

0 (5m 25s):
So you go by bridge or you go by ferry. And So we are taking the confederation bridge over to PEI and we are taking the ferry out of PEI to Nova Scotia. So we wanted to talk a little bit about the, I guess the booking process for a truck and a trailer to go on the north on Berlin Ferry. Yeah,

1 (5m 44s):
So I think this is an exciting part of the trip because maybe it's not all about the destination. So the bridge itself is an architectural marvel of sorts and so we're ha we're interested to go over that but we want to take what they've been doing for many decades and also take the ferry. So booking the ferry was, I'd say it was a relatively pleasant experience. They were, customer service was certainly to top-notch and they were easy to talk to. So we booked the ferry from PEI to Nova Scotia through Northumberland Ferry. They operate three different ferries in the area. We're taking the one from PEI to Nova Scotia. So went to their website, read up on the information.

1 (6m 25s):
It says any vehicle over seven feet tall needs to phone the one 800 number And of course that includes the height of your trailer and the trailer is, our trailer in particular is just over 12 feet tall. So I phoned the one 800 number, I spoke to a lady called Joey. She was incredibly helpful, pretty laid back as you would expect from somebody out on the east coast. Went ahead and booked the ferry. I think it's about a 70 minute trip. You need to be there 40 minutes early And I think it costs us about $160. If you're listening to this podcast, my advice is to go check out their website because they have seasonal deals and specials and so the price probably fluctuates a little bit.

1 (7m 5s):
Pretty easy to get booked on. The one point that I would note is that many of us all know how tall our rigs are because we don't want to take the air conditioner off underneath an overpass. We all don't have a good sense of how long our rigs are. And I, when I say that, I mean we have a sense that we were just about 50 feet she needed to know right down to the foot. So we had to go out, measure everything added up. Turns out we're 56 feet, nine days outta 10, this is not a problem because you're just pulling into a parking lot, you know whether you fit or not on the ferry. Like they're counting feet and inches. So it matters to them. They're

0 (7m 45s):
Stacking Jenga blocks to get the most efficiency.

1 (7m 48s):
Well they are really they because I said the first time I called And I spoke to her, I said, I think we're about 50 feet, like do you have room? And she goes, we have five 20 foot blocks left. And I'm like, do you need me to like race out and get this done in the next 20 minutes? And she's like, no. Like you got a couple of days. Nevertheless, we kind of got it done that night, brought us a bit of peace of mind but I would recommend giving them a phone call because it was a really pleasant experience. Customer services top-notch. So that's kind of the first ferry story.

0 (8m 22s):
And I will say because We did mention the confederation bridge, So we are going over to PEI on the Confederation bridge. Is this bridge a toll bridge? 100%, yes. However they charge the toll, they charge the round trip price on your way out of PEI. So if you go into PEI on the bridge and you go out on the ferry, you don't actually pay the bridge toll but if you go in on the ferry and out on the bridge, you pay the bridge toll and it's like a round trip toll and if you go in on the bridge and out on the bridge, you pay the bridge toll on your way out. So we are going in on the bridge free trip out on the ferry paid trip.

1 (9m 0s):
Short story of all that is getting onto the island is free by bridge. Yes. Whether you take the bridge or you take a ferry, you gotta pay to get off the island. So they kind of set, I tell

0 (9m 10s):
California situation, well

1 (9m 11s):
They set that up smart. So a couple of days later we're kind of nose it around looking at what sites we wanna hit. We took a look at And I think we were kind of leaning towards taking north the Northumberland ferry, this one from Yarmouth to Bar Harbor, Maine because it would've taken about six hours of drive time off the trip. So of course we're over seven feet tall, they say call the one 800 number, I call the one 800 number. I follow the prompts, I get to the Yarmouth to Bar Harbor Maine attendant who's equally friendly And I speak with her, she speaks with her manager. Her manager refers me to the harbor master because

0 (9m 54s):
Of the length,

1 (9m 54s):
Because of the length of the trailer at one point along the way they ask if the trailer can be separated and driven separately from the truck, which I thought was a bit of an odd question given the length like I'm not sure if they were expecting us to like push the trailer around but of course it can't So we can't separate it. They eventually determined that they had room for us on the ferry. So, so far in the story, good news, this is probably like 20 minutes into the conversation on a Sunday afternoon we get to the point where they need to get our passport information that goes really smooth if you're ever gonna book it, make sure that you kind of have your passports handy because you are crossing an international border.

1 (10m 36s):
We get to the very end and she says okay, how do you want to pay for this? And I'm like MasterCard. And she goes, it's nine 13. Now understand that the first ferry we booked was about $160 for 70 minutes. This one's just a little bit double the duration but quite a bit more than double the price. And so it's

0 (10m 57s):
Like 10 times the price. You

1 (10m 58s):
Know Molina's sitting on the couch, her eyes bug out, my eyes bug out And I kind of clarified with the lady, I'm like you mean like $913? Like a little bit less than a thousand? And she said yes. And we kind of gave each

0 (11m 10s):
In US dollars.

1 (11m 11s):
In US dollars, right. So it was definitely gonna be over a thousand dollars. So we, long story short is we decided not to take the ferry after an hour on the phone call. The lady completely understood like I think the price is a little bit over the top to be honest with you.

0 (11m 26s):
Yeah. And listen for a variety of reasons we're going there and coming back through Canada. But was it enticing enough to like nip six hours of a corner? Like you're knocking like the whole province of New Brunswick off the trip on the way back. Like is it enticing? Yeah, absolutely. But not at that price. And the more I think about this, the more I think like is this like you know, if you're a roofer and you really don't want a job, you price yourself outta the market. Like maybe we were just too long.

1 (11m 53s):
I kind of wonder because at one point during the phone call she said you know, there's a surcharge of $15 for every foot over 50 feet. So the last six feet was an extra $15 a foot. So maybe this is how they keep the big ones off the ferry. You know, we'll probably come back to it some point years down the road and take the ferry. But it was not gonna be, probably would've been like by the conversion rate a $1,300 trip for us And I don't think we were there. Yeah. So we're driving an extra five hours and gonna spend some quality time together in the front seat of the good ship Gillies and not the high speed cat ferry. Okay.

0 (12m 29s):
So do we want to tell the good people what we actually spent that $1,300 on them?

1 (12m 36s):
Yeah 'cause I think we're maybe pivoting over to the checklist conversation here.

0 (12m 40s):
Yeah,

1 (12m 42s):
So I think probably everybody has a bit of a checklist for getting out the door on a weekend or you have a bit of a checklist to kick yourself off for the season. I think we're not really kind of talking about that part of the checklist. There are a few things that you want to do if you're going on a big trip And I think that's what we're coming to. So we have done a little bit of truck maintenance over the last, what would we say, eight weeks or so? A little bit.

0 (13m 6s):
A lot of it,

1 (13m 7s):
We did a lot of it. So about eight weeks ago we needed to put new tires on the truck. We like we planned for that. We knew that was coming, they just reached the end of their life expectancy. F-150, for those of you who don't know, it's got about 250,000 kilometers on it. If it doesn't it will by the end of next week. So it's got some mileage on it. We had a couple warning lights for like

0 (13m 34s):
Sensors,

1 (13m 34s):
Backup sensors, lane departure check, park gate, all the beeping stuff that goes off when you're getting into a parking spot. Those needed to be repaired and the check engine light had been coming off and on intermittently. So all those sensors got repaired. We got the catalytic converters done which you know is not directly tied to RVing but it's tied to 250,000 kilometers. So of

0 (14m 1s):
Coast to coast to coast travel over the last 10 years.

1 (14m 4s):
Right. So catalytic converters are done, sensors are done. I think the bill came in. So tires I feel like was just under $2,000. Catalytic converters and sensors came in just under like

0 (14m 15s):
Six grand.

1 (14m 16s):
Six grand, drive it for a week, check park aid like comes on again. So I phone up the dealership again and I'm like, we were just in here like a week and a half ago and he's like well the other side needs done. So I'm like dude I just dropped six grand in this. He took 10% off. It does, it does sting a little bit like

0 (14m 38s):
But listen, okay, so when we purchased this truck, we purchased this truck for literally the long haul, like literally and figuratively. So we bought the truck almost 10 years ago. We don't have any payments on it. We purposely went with the F-150 Lariat with the tow package, with the extendable mirrors and the upgraded transmission and all of the things that we knew would serve us well because of how much we wanted to travel with this truck. And listen, like I will take these odd repairs you know, every couple of years over a car payment any day. I think it has served us very well, knock on wood will continue to do so until we are ready to upgrade the trailer and downsize the house.

0 (15m 22s):
And it's been a great truck so I am not complaining

1 (15m 27s):
And you're not wrong but I'm almost 50 And I take the right to complain a little bit

0 (15m 34s):
Fair.

1 (15m 34s):
So also what We did, we got an oil change done. So I think you know it's not super critical that you get an oil change done because you're going, we got the oil change done because we knew we would need one while we were on the road. It's a whole lot more convenient to do it when you're at home and you can get the oil change done at a convenient time rather than, you know, traveling along the road. Maybe you gotta adjust your schedule slightly, even if you still need to find a quick lube place and it takes 20 minutes, it still means like you need to detach your trailer, keep people entertained, go in re-hook up. So it's just easier to plan ahead and just get the oil change done so that it's one less thing that doesn't encumber the rest of the trip. I also did a detailed cleaning, which is kind of a me thing because after, you know a whole winter of driving people to hockey tournaments and picking up stuff for projects around the house, the truck was kind of gross.

1 (16m 24s):
So I have vacuumed it out, cleaned the mats, like wiped everything down. It doesn't quite look like it came off the showroom floor but it looks a lot better than it did. And then I put some rain X on the windows and cleaned everything up and that's kind of just a weird obsessive compulsive thing I have about using rain X on the windows 'cause I find it makes the drive a little bit easier. So that's kind of what we've done for the truck.

0 (16m 48s):
So the trailer, I would say the checklist or the pre-trip checklist is a little bit different than our normal pre-trip checklist that we would do every trip. And if you would like to listen about that checklist in detail, go all the way back to episode seven. Although that was or filmed, that was recorded back in 2020. So it's probably time for a bit of a refresh. But if you're looking for a very in depth, really good pre-trip checklist, like the top things we pack, all of that kind of stuff. Go back to episode seven. I think for the purposes of this episode we're talking about like what are the things that we do differently before a really big trip in our trip, pre-trip checklist. Which is also like not only the things that we're doing that we might not check every single time.

0 (17m 32s):
Like I'm not obsessive about checking, checking the propane levels but we're probably gonna check the life of the battery and see how we're doing and you know, things like that. But it's also about what we're not taking.

1 (17m 43s):
Yeah. So maybe we'll just start at the front of the trailer. We've made sure the battery's all charged up ready to go. 'cause there's a couple of nights where we're not with power at harvest host So we know that's good to go. We make sure that the propane is good to go and we've got lots for that 'cause we do tend to burn a little bit more pro propane on these road trips with the fridge and stuff. So that's good. I still go out and I'd almost say this is almost like a mid-season checkup really. I go out And I check the trailers And I get down on my hand its and knees And I kind of run my hand along the back and have a good look at the front and you know, make sure we've got valve covers screwed on and nuts are torked on ax

0 (18m 18s):
And leaf

1 (18m 19s):
Springs. Right. Make sure everything looks right. Yeah and have a good look at it. Make sure the spare tires got air right. So those are the kind of things that we do to get going. Seals. Seals, we've had to just pop in a new center cap just to keep the dust outta the wheel. Like it's not a, it's gonna help over the long term. It wouldn't fret if I lost one at the side of the road. But just the little things that kind of you add to your list, we kind of make sure those are all done. Bit of a midseason checkup. Yeah.

0 (18m 46s):
And did you mention fuses? We don't check fuses a lot but I think like this is like we go on one big trip a year, that's probably a good idea to make sure we have all the variety of fuses we need.

1 (18m 55s):
Yeah. And so I've got fuses squirreled away like a chipmunk

0 (18m 58s):
And we have had to give people fuses in parking lots before.

1 (19m 1s):
Yeah. So I've got some fuses in the trailer. I got fuses in the truck, I got fuses in the glove box. Like there's a couple of different, which this came to light while I'm cleaning the truck And I sounds

0 (19m 10s):
Like a

1 (19m 11s):
Squirrel making sure that we've got like all the right, you know, lug nuts and jacks and everything to change a spare tire. So all of those things are kind of getting done. So yes we do have fuses and you know, I made sure that the drill's in there for stabilizers and stuff like that tonight.

0 (19m 26s):
And then let's talk about how we take the glamp out of our camp I guess. Like we're leaving some stuff behind.

1 (19m 31s):
Yeah, so I, I call it like decluttering. I think if you have, we all agree that if your house is decluttered, your office is decluttered, the the car's decluttered, you have a much better experience. You're a little bit more relaxed. So we make some thoughtful decisions about what we actually need. So we have stripped out the barbecue, it's just a, a small tabletop barbecue. Occasionally we'll bring a larger Blackstone with us if we're doing some weekend camping. We're not doing that. So we're, we've stripped this down, we're just bringing, we've borrowed a small tabletop griddle and we'll do most of our, our cooking on that for the two of us. Or the fire.

1 (20m 11s):
Or the fire or you know, like we still do a lot of or

0 (20m 13s):
A restaurant or a brewery or a winery. Well yeah like or a pizzeria.

1 (20m 18s):
There's probably a local beer and a lobster roll in our future. Yeah so, so I mean like I think we've simplified things down that way. We have kind of stripped out the extra lawn chairs that we don't need. 'cause you're always, at least it feels to me there's a lawn chair on a bed or in a truck and it's in the way. Did you keep the

0 (20m 34s):
Beach chairs

1 (20m 34s):
Though? The beach chairs are in there. Okay good. And the dad chairs in there. So we've taken out a couple extra lawn chairs. We have one of those six foot tables that folds in half. I took that outta there because like if we cannot manage our toast and our coffee by ourselves on this trip, we've got some larger issues to talk about. So,

0 (20m 49s):
Well usually when we're camping with family we have a bit of an assembly line for breakfast in the morning so hence the six foot table. Very useful.

1 (20m 56s):
Yeah and if you're just stopping once or twice or you're in the same spot for a while to have that, it's nice and handy. But when you're moving every day or every couple of days and you have to keep moving the lawn chairs from beside the bed or the table, it gets a little bit tedious. So we don't need it, we're not gonna use it. We've stripped it out, lowers our weight more than anything. I think it just declutters the whole trailer

0 (21m 16s):
And makes room for the bikes inside the trailer.

1 (21m 19s):
Yeah. So if you've been following along in the podcast, you know that we're driving from southern Ontario to Ottawa stopping putting the trailer in storage for a little bit. So I've put the bikes into the trailer mostly for security 'cause it's gonna go into storage and we don't want the bikes stolen so, so normally what we would do is just leave 'em on the front of the trail and we'd lock 'em up and you're around there all the time anyways. We're not worried but we're leaving it for a couple of days so it's just as easy to stash 'em in the trailer drive down the road once we hit the road again next week to move on to PEI, we'll pull them outta the trailer, put 'em on the front, pull them out of the inside of the trailer, put 'em on the rack on the front of the trailer and move along. So that's kind of what we've been doing the last what week and a half, two weeks or so, just kind of chipping away at it a little bit at a time.

0 (22m 3s):
And so I guess I would wrap up by saying the last thing that we're sort of leaving behind is like preconceived notions about you know, what a perfect trip looks like. I'm leaving my type A personality at home. Usually I pa or I plan these trips very, very carefully. I am a really big believer in itineraries but we know often that things don't, things go wrong, things don't go as planned. You can run into problems on the road, you run into delays whether they weather construction otherwise. So I guess if you're taking one tip or writing one tip down on that pre-trip checklist, for me it would be like take it as it comes. You're going on a massive long trip, it's not always gonna go to plan.

0 (22m 45s):
So like work in some buffer time and work in some time where you kind of don't have to be anywhere so that you know, if you miss something you can make up time elsewhere in the trip.

1 (22m 54s):
Yeah I think as we've kind of done a research here, there's a lot less, we're doing a lot less hitting stuff like we need to be hit this thing in the morning and this place in the afternoon we're kind of hitting more of the broad strokes, right? We're hitting the highlights. Yeah we're hitting the, you know, the highlights. The Caven coast Charlottetown, the ferry rod is a a thing in and of itself. We're gonna hit Lunenberg so like we kind of got a few big things we wanna hit but I think the trip as much as anything is is the point and the time in between all of those places. And so there's lots of time to just putter along and enjoy ourselves really because I think this place more than any might be one of those places where it's the stuff you're not expecting that become the memorable, memorable parts of the trip.

0 (23m 39s):
For sure.

1 (23m 41s):
And then I guess the last thing maybe is like preparing the kids to stay at home. True. So we've got a 20-year-old and a almost 17-year-old So we have got them their favorite snacks to take to work from a trip to Costco. We'll leave them for some money for groceries. I think as much as we would love them to come on this trip, this is a journey for them and it's something they have to do by themselves to just bolster their own independence.

0 (24m 9s):
Listen you're talking like we've never left them home alone before, which is completely not the case. We're, Dan And I are frequent travelers on our own, but for it is a consideration as a parent, you know we wanna make sure they're set up for success if things go wrong, right? We have an adult and a young adult, they're gonna be working almost all of the time. But you know, we have my parents that live right around the corner. I've spoken to our next door neighbors like just to kind of, everybody kind of like community makes it better, you look out for each other and it gives us more peace of mind. Like, I mean our kids are very well prepared of what to do in an accident and they're great in a crisis.

0 (24m 49s):
But just knowing that there's, you know, support systems set up here and you know they can go to the grocery store and pick what they like and cook as opposed to us leaving a list for them. 'cause I think they're gonna do more cooking that way as opposed to Uber Eats showing up at the doorstep every day. It just gives us more peace of mind that you know, everything's okay and we don't have to worry if something goes wrong because we're so far away we know that things will be handled.

1 (25m 12s):
Yeah, I think what I was trying to drill down at was almost to the point you're trying to make, we've left parts of this where they're gonna have to figure it out themselves. Like how are they going to get to work, right? Is it gonna be two feet in a heartbeat? Is it gonna be your bicycle or is it gonna be grandpa? But you gotta figure it out and you need to take care of that. You need to figure out what you're going to eat when you're going to eat it. Yep. Right. So we've kind of set them up to figure this stuff out themselves and they'll probably bumble along but it'll get done and that's part of the journey of life.

0 (25m 41s):
They'll have a great time as will we. So exciting news for the show. I think we're going to have some, you know, mid trip episodes. Obviously we're away for a couple of weeks and we try to put these episodes out every two weeks. So there'll be at least one from PEI or Nova Scotia wherever we happen to be at that time. So we will be recording on the road. I would encourage everybody to follow along on TikTok and Instagram at RV Connects 'cause I'm sure we will be doing, you know, some content there and maybe we will, you know, videotape and throw up or even you know, give you a live preview of what loading the trailer on and off of the ferry looks like in real time.

0 (26m 21s):
And when we get back in August, we have a couple of really exciting, you know, guest podcasts that we're teeing up. So do you wanna talk about the first one?

1 (26m 30s):
Yeah, so the first one are our good friends Ben and Janine and they've been on the podcast before, we've known them for about a dozen years and the last time they were on was three or four years ago and they were talking about their trip in their Class C motor home with their, their family out to drum Heller in Alberta and stuff like that. So they've since purchased a new trailer this year, a bunkhouse trailer if I remember correctly. So we're gonna talk to them about that experience and what led them to make the switch

0 (26m 56s):
And they are far better versed to talk about the process of getting a new trailer 'cause it's been quite some time since we bought ours. So that'll be a great episode. The next episode that we are trying to schedule is a gentleman named Brian DeLauder and he is from 10 telescopes. So this is an organization in Guelph that creates and loans out 3D printed telescopes. And I met Brian when I went to a science on tap event with my dad on astral photography and he was talking about how to take really, really great pictures of the night sky with whatever, you know, cameras, telescopes, et cetera. And he kind of went through the stages of you know, if you have a basic camera here's how you can get a really good shot of the night sky.

0 (27m 38s):
And I thought he would be perfect to chat with, especially since, you know, Yarmouth Nova Scotia where we're heading out to is an international dark sky preserve. So there's gonna be plenty of opportunity for us to catch some night skies that we can take some great images of. And Brian has also renovated and taken a customized camper van down to Colorado to do the same thing, you know for for capturing images of the nice sky. He's a super fascinating individual so we're really excited to talk to him sometime in August.

1 (28m 9s):
Yeah, I think it'll be really interesting 'cause there's so many places in North America you can do that, right?

0 (28m 14s):
Yeah. So we, and we've been to probably one of the best in Ango Desert State Park in California. We do have an episode on that as well.

1 (28m 23s):
Yep. And there's one in Nova Scotia And I know there's a couple in central Ontario in the Muskoka, so I think it's really something that people might get some interest out of. Yeah.

0 (28m 32s):
So with that we are almost ready to hit the hay and then hit the road very early tomorrow on this trip. So I guess we'll end it there and safe travels to you all and we will see you on the road.

1 (28m 45s):
Definitely. Have a great week folks. Bye. Bye.