En route Hwy #2
Before leaving Prince Albert I published
the pages of my website withTim Hortons'
Wi-Fi connection then I collected booklets
at the Tourist Office. The day was radiant
and cold. The forest started to cover the
autumnal colors. Looking at a surface on
the roadside at kilometer 113 I decided to
spend two days there to make maintenance
of my truck which starts to show its
kilometric age without being able to cure
it
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| L'automne est là ! |
In the night the temperature was around
-2/-3°C whereas during the day it reached
+19°C. Tuesday, September 25 was thus
devoted to a control of my truck on the
ground of the bivouac. Indeed as I said
the truck shows its mileage without
periodic revision with only drainings of
oil and changing of all filters. Indeed
the last revision in a MAN garage was
carried out in Brisbane, Australia, the
9/7/2010, the truck had 196934 km, it has
271576 now! Various
noises appeared and for a few days in the
morning the starter has made a noise of
pschitt
without launching the engine. At the
second attempt the starter launches the
engine, phew!
Could I reach Edmonton where I wish to go
to Volvo Truck? At the
end of the day I could only note that I
had not solved any problem.
La Ronge
The starter had difficulties of being
energized to launch the engine. If not
nothing except at 15 km before La Ronge
the RCPM stopped me to tell me that I was
not authorized to drive without number
plate of Canada. I was amazed. I explained
to the policeman by showing my passport
that I was in this country since of long
months, I displayed also my international
driving license as well as the
certificate of insurance of the last year
and that of the current one. But a
policeman never admits to be wrong, in any
country. He called his HQ by explaining
the situation. Not to lose the face he
made me my truck opened as well as the
garage. Finally he let me go. At the
entrance of the village I stopped at the
only vehicle workshop which after checking
all connections of the starter did not
detect any anomaly. I think that it is
about a problem of moisture of connections
in the morning. In La Ronge I made a long
halt at the Library to answer my brother's
email
because UPS requires an address in Canada
and it is not satisfied with the formula
“Hold At UPS Location, (HAL)”. Odd!
Moreover drugs must be packed by a
hospital. Odd, odd! In La
Ronge there was nothing to see and the
campground was closed. I bivouacked on the
car park of Co-oP with the manager's
authorization. It was a day without
interest, the only sight is the Robertson
Trading Co.
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En route Hwy #2, Km 113
I left La Ronge after a stop at the
library to read my mailbox because my
brother having dispatched the spare parts
and my drugs transmitted to me the UPS
dispatch note with the tracking N° in
order to follow-up it. On the way towards
Prince Albert National Park it came in my
memory that I had a corrosion inhibitor
for all electrical components.
Consequently I stopped at my preceding
bivouac at the km 113 to lift the cabin a
second time and to apply the
anti-corrosion spray to the connectors of
the starter. Tomorrow morning I will have
the proof that my diagnosis was correct or
not. The bivouac is at the altitude around
550 meters.
Prince Albert National Park, Waskesiu Lake
On Friday around 7:00 am I tried to start
my truck, alas the same phenomenon
occurred, a noise of
pschitt
and nothing. At the third attempt the
starter launched the engine, the batteries
are new. My diagnosis was wrong. I though
that the electric relay is in question,
but what to do, to see with Volvo at
Edmonton if I arrive there. Despite
everything the mildness of the weather
during the day incited to me to spend two
nights at the edge of the Waskesiu Lake
where there was nobody and where the
majority of shops were closed for the
season. I was to re-examine all my road
plans for the future. Here there is no
Internet connection. I used my bgan
satellite modem to read my e-mailbox. The
service of immigration of the USA informed
me that my
ESTA was in the term on October
28th, 2012, what a consideration.
In the late afternoon I strolled at the
edge of the lake to admire the sunset,
spectacle always magic. I like sunrises &
sunsets.
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| Cottages on the lakeshore |
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| Harmony carvings by Doris Sheldon |
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| Sunset on Waskesiu Lake |
On Saturday morning I undertook to make
the walk suggested by the park a loop of
19 km which connects three loops of the
Red Deer Trail. Alas I had forgotten my
GPS e-Trek, I cannot thus give any trace.
On the way I saw several herds of elk. It
is the second largest deer after the
moose. The night was warm, +10°C under my
truck and the day was quite sunny.
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| Wapiti, (elk) |
