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We're paying $1,850 CAD ($1,340 USD) for the month.

I went to Newfoundland with my buddies for four nights, and Ruth has been with her sister in Hamilton, Ontario. Neither one of us felt the desire to write a blog post... so we didn't!

So that's not bad. I always make the budget pretty conservative to give us something to strive towards, so we're almost always over by varying amounts, but this one was particularly close.

We've been really lucky with the weather here near Wolfville, Nova Scotia. Highs of around 23C (72F) and very pleasant.

On Thursday we drove a half hour or so over to the town of Windsor to meet friends Aron and Owenita. This is one of the couples that was on our last RV caravan to Mexico in the winter of 2019-2020.

She says she remembers many great summers spending time at the swimming hole.

On Monday, I drove granddaughter Sadie (will be 13 on Saturday) to a friends cottage. She'll be up there for two days and should return this afternoon. 

It took us 21 hours start to finish. We left at 1:00am Sunday morning and arrived at 11:00pm Sunday night. With a one hour time zone change.

This area, about two hours north of Toronto is known as "cottage country" because of its roughly 1,600 lakes, rocky granite shields, and thick pine forests.

Instead, he ended up opening a taco shop to keep busy! So before we left for the airport, we took our friend Chago out for lunch.

And today, we will take the bus into the big tamale (Mexico City) and fly to Toronto overnight tonight.

Our flight to Toronto tomorrow is with Aeromexico. But (against my better judgement), I had originally booked with Air Canada. I won't make that mistake again.

I noticed that the Americans seem to get a lot more income than Canadians, so I did some digging.

Then we take a local GO bus from the airport to the Ontario Northlands terminal for our 9:30am departure to Gravenhurst, Ontario where our son will pick us up. That's a two and a half hour bus ride.

We're headed back to Canada on Wednesday for six weeks, so we now know how many nights of that one year we will have spent in the Mexico house.

And we've been watching a lot of Blue Jays baseball... they've not had a good season, especially compared to last year but they've won 10 of their last 15 games, so maybe things are turning around in time to manage a playoff spot by the end of September. 

So, we've just been to three new countries... China, Hong Kong, and Japan, and here is the answer to that question regarding these countries...

And they also invited some new friends, Chris and Michelle, an American couple who live here in Valle de Bravo.

We rode it into town and back without a problem, but it's not running right. A little disappointed, but already spoke to the mechanic and will be bringing it back to him on Monday.

Anyhow, this is our daily diary, so even if it's just for ourselves, we want to keep it going.

Most of the regular vendors recognize us and say good morning as we pass.

Regular readers here know that we try and stay physically active. And while traveling, we find that it's fairly easy to get in a sufficient amount of cardio exercise... but the muscular exercise has been lacking.

We've been there before, but not for many years, and never during rainy season.

We started the month in China, and ended it in Mexico... with stops in Hong Kong, Japan, and Canada in between. So we were in a total of five countries in July! No wonder it was expensive.