#5 thanks for the tip with Verizon. I got the same $5/per day temp plan.
I also contacted my bank to tell them I'm traveling to Quebec. A couple years ago, I recall going to Niagara Falls and not being able to use my debit card until I called the bank to straighten things out.
I came up with a list of 41 items to bring with me. I got most of the list completed last night. My truck is the only vehicle at State Street packed full of snowmobile gear.
I picked up $600 CAD cash at TravelEX. I'll use the debit card for the rest.
I'm carrying a small backpack and a small saddlebag that's it. I'm doing the #4 thing and bringing all the old underwear and shirts and leaving them after I wear them. I'll call Verizon today and get that done.
I was on Google Maps a few minutes ago and this is what was on there:
Hazardous winter conditions are expected.
A winter storm will bring a total of 25 to 40 centimetres of snow and blowing snow over parts of Central and Eastern Quebec. The regions from Charlevoix to the Lower North Shore will get the highest amounts of snow. The regions of the Mauricie and Quebec City could see a period of freezing rain after the snow this morning. This freezing rain could affect the Gaspé Peninsula by this evening and the Lower North Shore Wednesday morning. Conditions should improve by Wednesday afternoon.
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Winter storm warnings are issued when multiple types of severe winter weather are expected to occur together.
Please continue to monitor alerts and forecasts issued by Environment Canada. To report severe weather, send an email to ec.cpiq_tempetes-qspc_storms.ec@canada.ca or tweet reports using #meteoqc.
You're gonna make it!! This is your travel partner, and together, we'll get through this. Today I called Verizon and added the Travel Plan, it is only $5 per day for Canada and Mexico only for days that your phone connects to the international network (not including WiFi). Get that done.
I should have exchanged some Canadian dollars when I was at the airport last week. How much are you bringing? Just lunch on the trail really, and bars at night. I do everything else on credit card.
I stop every time I walk past the sled in the garage. It is ready to go. I have been talking the trip up to it, making sure it is ready to go. That storage bag is looking smaller and smaller every day. It will only have sled essentials in it and I will be wearing a back pack it is looking like. Once again, the Pres is more right than wrong, but I've spent enough with only 90 miles on it yet!
Looks like temps starting on Friday at high of 12 and then climbing to 20s and 30s with snow showers through the weekend up in Baie Comeau. That sounds like a perfect snowmobile forecast.
I will be checking in on you often over the next few days #7. Stay in it, it will be here before you know it.
OMG this week is already killing me. It's only Monday morning at 9:21AM and clocks ticking one second at a time is not getting it done. I've been at work for 3 hours and Wednesday at 6pm seems like 100 years away.
Someone who rides snowmobiles please talk me off the ledge.