The Montreal Trip
Well, we have been a little out of touch this last couple of weeks... sorry about that. My lovely wife and I took a trip up to Montreal Canada and just returned. We finished the unit that is heading for France. The customers have a Son who lives in Montreal, so they decided to ship their Toyota Hilux diesel 4 cyl Vego to Montreal, have the camper installed, then ship the entire rig back to their home in France.
Since they were going through all of that, just to get one of our custom made PULSE Pop ups, we just felt that the right thing to do was to meet them, and install their camper in person. It was a wonderful trip. Weather was perfect, the camper arrived JUST in time to be installed one day before our flight out of town, and also arrived with just a little bit of freight dammage from the Denver - Montreal shipment. After installing the camper, we had a fun 2 hour lunch with the great people, we spoke english (well, American), they spoke French, and we basically played sherades... Can't wait to see the pictures they send once the rig gets home to France in about a month...
so much fun!
Here are some pictures from this adventure....
Before the trip, camper ready to ship:
Before we wrap her up, we have to hit the scales... it comes out to 570 lbs!!
All wrapped up and ready to go.
The big UPS truck picks the unit up, and we head for the airport:
The view from our hotel room, 17th floor of The Intercontinental Hetel is AMAZING! This is just a picture of the Qebec flag flying attop of one of the many sky scrapers.
During the week, we wait for our call, because the truck is stuck in customs at the Montreal Docks... so we ride the "metro" and scope out the town.
This is my beautiful wife pretending to have a good time on our business trip.
Here is one of the big attractions, the Parc Olympic.
We ride the highest man made leaning tower in the world's inclinator to the top and see all of Montreal, birdseye view, beautiful.
After the Parc Olympic, we go accross the way to the Bio-Dome, a huge domed roof building with a full Zoo and aquarium inside. I think this was my Wife's favorite part of the trip, watching the zookeeper feeding the cute penguins.
Finally, on Thursday we got the go ahead to meet the customers and install the camper. When we arrive, the customers are very suprised that Cari and I are the actual "technicians" who have arrived to install their camper. We have exchanged over 150 e-mail messages and photos over the last 3 months, but they never thought they would actually meet us in person.... so, very suprised for sure! When we get over to it, the unit looks pretty good, but there is some damage, so the customers filed a claim with UPS, so they can get it repaired in France.
Then, we all finish unwrapping it together:
And install the jacks:
Once it is stablized on it's jacks, we check out the insides and demonstrate how everything works. A nice gentleman who works at the Public Storage came over to translate our english instructions into French for the customers.... good thing, thank YOU!!
Then I have to check the truck out, run the wiring, and ready it for installation:
Also, I like this little customization.. I find it funny that it is acutually written in english:
Then we lift it, and load the camper onto the truck:
Then, we removed the "invis-a-lift" jacks, put the studs back in the holes, and start snapping pix:
And, My favorite picture of the whole trip (besides the ones of my beautiful wife, of course):
