Day 39, Wednesday, August 1, 2007

It is a beautiful blue-sky morning and we can finally see the entire harbor and the Fortress across the water. Didn't want to leave, but we left Louisbourg late this morning and went to Sydney for CR-V brake repairs at the local Honda dealer.

I'm currently sitting in the waiting room while the work is being done because they have a high-speed internet connection available for customer use. Blueboy, Ellen, and the girls are in a parking lot about a 1/2 mile away because there was no space for the motor home on the dealers lot - it's right down town Sydney.

All four brake pads are "fried" and the rear brake discs are too bad to be repaired so they have to replaced along with all the pads. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.
Seems the Brake Buddy supplemental braking system for the Honda was not positioned properly ( or got bumped out of position on a stretch of bad road) one day last week and caused pressure to be applied on the brake pedal for the entire day's drive!

I guess we will have to cut our trip by about two weeks to pay for the repairs.

So, it's 2:00 now and hopefully only about one more hour to go. We will drive towards Halifax when finished here. Won't get there tonight. But not knowing when the repairs will be done I have no clue where we will end up.

That's it for today. Tomorrow we will be camping in or close to Halifax for a day or two so Ellen can check out the bars.