I heard rustling in the van again last night, but this time at the back of the van, possibly inside the cupboards. I wish Rodger would stop collecting pets. He’s almost as bad as me and my chicken addiction.

All our food is in a plastic container so the mouse shouldn’t be getting into that. But as a result I had a terrible sleep and a late start to the day. Today we’re going to Canada! We’re only 2 hours from the border. We’d heard from other YouTubers that you have to dump all your fruit and veg, meat, dairy products etc. There wasn’t much info on the internet, just that you had to declare it. So we ate as much as we could before crossing over. The only signs we saw were that we’d have to declare cannabis.

The security guard asked us about our van, did we buy it, where we were going, and that was it. I asked if we had to declare anything. He asked if we had firearms. We said no, and he sent us through. easy as, not sure why others make it seem so difficult.

Coming back might be a different story. As soon as we got to Canada, everything looked different. It looked like Canada. The mountains were closer. The trees were pinier (if that’s a word).

Not long into Canada we saw a little takeaway diner. I’ve always wanted to try poutine so we ordered some. It was delicious! It’s chips, smothered in gravy and cheese curd. We gobbled it all up. Yum yum. We’ll have that again!

We drove until about 5.30pm and pulled into a campsite with a stream and mountain backdrop. It was lovely. We’re still about 2hours from Banff and we’ll head there tomorrow, hopefully prepared for the onslaught of tourists!