I know you are all sitting on the edge of your seats, waiting to hear if I now having working A/C in my truck.

I do not.

I could? But the effort will be substantial.

The diagnosis was difficult, but Kitchener Nissan found the issue! There is a leak in the evaporator. It is located behind the dash, so to replace it, it will take 8 hours of shop time. Total bill will be over $3,500.

Everywhere I take this truck, I hear how it is such a baby (at just 119k on the odometer) despite being 10 years old. That was the last year this truck was made (2015) and there just isn’t anything on the market that replaces it.

Part of me wants to fix it. But I also live in the Yukon and don’t need to fix it. It only blows hot air in the summer, but the rolling down the window works when I’m not on a dusty gravel Yukon road.

When I thought it was a simple leak in a hose, it seemed more logical to fix. But that is a lot of money that I don’t need to spend on something so frivolous.

So there is that update.

Yesterday Mom and I went to Goderich! She loves that town and hopes to get there every summer. We drove around, saw some incredible houses, visited the pier, the salt mine area, the grain elevator, and drove along the beach and shore.

Have I ever been here before? Surely? I have no memory of it. Everything I remember of the square is from tornado footage after it was badly damaged.

My great great grandfather was killed on the pier in 1926. I didn’t have a good sense of the story and I thought several people were killed. But I looked up all the details last night.

I found the old newspaper stories on the Huron County Museum and archives website. My Grandma’s grandfather started a business with a partner, and they won the contract to reconstruct 500 feet of the north pier in Goderich.

He was unloading a train car of pilings and they were stuck. With no experience unloading a car, he climbed on top of the load to cut the bindings and he was swept down with the logs and was crushed.

Two doctors were on the scene shortly after but there was nothing they could do. He didn’t regain consciousness. He was able to receive last rites on the scene before he passed.

They conducted a full coroner’s inquest and his inexperience was the sole factor in the accident. He was 62. Pretty tragic!

Back to our adventures, we saw a wedding prepped, and when we returned a couple hours later, it was already all gone!

Look at the good Canadians using the crosswalk.

Mom picked her favourite Goderich restaurant for us to have a mid afternoon lunch/supper. The Parkhouse!

They had a separate fryer for allergy people! So I had a pan fried pickerel with some fries!

Mom had the same. It was really quite good!

Afterwards, Mom put me in the slammer.

I think she was ready to leave me there.

Hahaha! That’s the old jail in Goderich.

After driving around some more, it was school bus time so we started heading for home. And stopped in at my Aunt Maria’s for a visit on her lovely back deck!

I’ve got a few days left before I need to get back on the road, and the days are quickly filling up!

Oh! And sorry Jeff, but I had a slice of this delicious fresh peach pie at Dad’s house the other day. Mmmmmmm. I probably can’t mail you a slice.

Also, I highly recommend the Jiffy Lube on Highland Road in Kitchener. I had hit the km goal on the sticker to change the oil. I had just had it changed in Whitehorse but had put thousands of kilometres on.

They said it looked brand new still and I was good to go. They helped me top up my washer fluid with a jug my Dad had just given me, and aired down my tires a bit, and charged me nothing! Great service! But also super friendly and chatty.