Canadian Maritime Rally - group departure times on travel days, GPS & insurance question

59 days till the start of the Great Gaspe’ and Maritime rally and there are several topics I would like to address.

Item 1 - I put together the attached “Coach sequence on travel days” document. it is intended to help answer the age-old question on a rolling rally: Who are we traveling with and when do we leave?

The first page lists group departure times for each stop on the rally. The intent is to have the first group arrival time close to when the next campground or RV park allows check-in. It follows that, the last group departs at or before the checkout time for the campground/ RV park we are leaving. For obvious reasons the specific times listed will be subject to change as the rally proceeds. The second page is intended to associate each individual coach with a group to identify when your group, for that particular day is scheduled to depart from a specific stop number. When you arrive in Ottawa we will ask you to draw a number from 2 – 14 to identify where you fall on departure times through the first 12 stops on the rally. Coincidently, the first 12 stops are in predominantly French speaking areas. Once we reach Prince Edward Island we are looking for the group at large to put together a travel days schedule for the remaining stops on the rally. The only requirements are that Eileen and I will need to be with the first group to pay where required and Peter & Connie will need to be in the last group. They are serving as the tail gunners/ sweep on travel days. Page 3 and 4  identify our groupings going into campgrounds in the National parks (Petit Gaspe' in Forillon NP and Newman Sound  in Terra Nova NP). The specific sequence entering the campground should expedite getting into the individual sites and this will be particularly important in Petit Gaspe'.

Item 2 – When I was talking with Glenda Ferris a couple of days ago she reminded me that not all GPS’s provide US and Canadian coverage. You might want to double check the GPS you use for both the coach and your car to make sure they will wok in Canada. If anyone doesn’t have GPS’s that work in Canada we will need to stop at a welcome center when we enter a province to pick up paper maps.

Item 3 – When we reviewed our RV insurance with Ron Jarvie at Overland he suggested requesting a  Canadian Non-Resident Interprovincial Motor Vehicle Liability Card when we renew the policy. This may be something you may want to consider before arriving in Canada.