Sugarloaf Park to St John NB

Away at 8:30 am with overcast and a muggy 21C. We got to Miramichi about noon, and found a Bell store. I wanted to find out the story with our Hub billing. After talking to several people at Bell “support”, the upshot is that I cancelled our Turbo Hub wifi hot spot plan.

There is no real protection for overcharges on these data Flex plans, except a CRTC-mandated warning if you’re about to go over $50 for the month. If you ok exceeding that, the sky’s the limit for billing. Bell offers NO WAY to set a personal upper limit, but will cheerfully charge you for every byte, too risky for my taste. There's no way we used anywhere near 2Gb this month already, and Bell had no explanations to offer.

While stopped (with “free” weekend cell time), we also set up our health coverage for the US. $60.90 Cdn covered 7 days (6 nights). Easy, but we need to get an annual plan next year to reduce the daily cost.

Cath called Nancy and Joyce, and traded texts with Barb. The cell plan is one reason the Hub is less valuable to us these days. We made and ate lunch before vacating the mall parking lot, a very useful stop.

We started heading for Kouchibouguac Park, but changed our minds before getting too far. Given our health coverage timing it made more sense to head right for Campobello and St Andrews, and then into the US.

Along the way we dove into Moncton traffic to the Costco for a couple of necessities. We figured it shouldn’t be too busy on a Saturday afternoon, with the kids back to school. Well, it seems that everybody in the area had the same idea! We got parked in the mall lot near Costco though, and were in and out of Costco in about 20 minutes. 

By 3:15 we were on our way, intending to stop around Sussex.

Nothing appealed at Sussex, so on to St John. We got to Rockwood Park about 5:15. A site with electric was $37. It’s a big park, right in St John. It would likely be a good base for a couple of days sometime, to take transit in to see more of the town. It’s foggy and down to 16C now. Cath was able to get our laundry done here.