Day 4 – Portsmouth, New Hampshire, through Maine, to Saint John, New Brunswick On Monday we drove through Maine the scenic, slow route to the Calais / St. Stephen border…
Read MoreMaine, New Hampshire, NASCAR, sunburn, and shopping – Part 1
Day 1 – Drive to Freeport, Maine We dropped Monty off at the board kennel on Friday and head out for Maine! We debated which way we should go, so…
Read MoreLisa’s travel tips
Don’t sleep the night before you fly. Worked for me. I’ve never slept on a plane before. But on our early Sunday morning flight back to Nova Scotia I slept through…
Read MorePlans for my vacation
I am off for 5 work days!! Here is my list of things to accomplish (updated regularly): cut the grass Done! I’m a ball of sweat. Whew that was good…
Read MoreOnwards towards Digby, and through the Annapolis Valley!
When we left Yarmouth we were still all fogged in. All around the southern side of Nova Scotia, there is a faster bypass, and the original highway. We usually stayed…
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Yarmouth
Day #2 ended early in Yarmouth in the early afternoon. The fog hadn’t lifted, and it was raining, and we decided to just stop wasting our sightseeing time looking at…
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Shag Harbour UFO Museum
One of the biggest highlights of our vacation was our stop at the Shag Harbour UFO Museum!!! Are you familiar with the Shag Harbour UFO incident of 1967? We watched…
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Day 2 – Shelbourne
On day 2 of our vacation, we woke to a weather forecast of heavy rain (25mm) with periods of fog. That translated into a viewless drive around the coast, in…
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Home to Bridgewater, Day 1
This week we finally ventured around the southern end of our new province. And I’m sure it was really nice. If we could have seen any of it. Damn fog….
Read MoreO’Brien’s Whale and Bird Tours, Bay Bulls, Newfoundland
Thanks to Cecilia for mentioning Bay Bulls and their boat cruises. We choose O’Brien’s Whale and Bird Tours. They saw humpback whales the day before we arrived, so we were…
Read MoreCape Spear
Cape Spear is the most eastern point in North America, aside from Greenland, which I didn’t know was part of North America, but hey, I didn’t proclaim to know everything….
Read MoreSignal Hill, St. John’s
After we got the diagnosis for Jeff’s truck, we had to stick around St. John’s until the parts came in the next morning. That was okay, because there was plenty…
Read MoreGros Morne National Park
Well I wasn’t able to charge up my laptop’s battery often enough to keep a daily diary, so instead I’ll post photos from each place we visited. With 600 photos…
Read MoreMy Impressions of Newfoundland & our Vacation & learned Rules of the Road
-everyone is a “Buddy” or a “bud” or “love” -there are no insects around to bite you when you camp in September! -4 sleeping bags are better than 1 and…
Read MoreVacation, Day 2
Saturday September 5th, 2009. 6:00 NS time The sun is rising as we are coming into Port Aux Basques, Newfoundland! I see light! Jeff! Look! Whales! The cold morning air…
Read MoreVacation, Day 1
It’s 11.47pm. We’re sitting in the lounge aboard the MV Atlantic Vision. We’re tired. Our eyes are dry. But we are finally moving away from the dock. We arrived in…
Read MoreSoon boarding… the MV Atlantic Vision
Here is the ferry we’ll be on tonight! The MV Atlantic Vision – http://www.marine-atlantic.ca/en/NewVessel/newvessel.shtml It’s the big new one, ya that one, the one that keeps breaking down, running into…
Read MoreSaturday Morning, Eastern Time Zone
Well I’m sitting here at my Mom’s house, watching the weather channel, seeing them forecast 130km/hr winds and 150 mm of rain for my house and husband. I forgot my…
Read MoreCabela’s Vacation
J. and I are back from our vacation to Cabela’s in Dundee, Michigan. I had a FABULOUS time! Cabela’s is a MASSIVE outdoors store – 225,000 square feet actually! It…
Read MoreVacation
I’ll be turning off all blog comments so my blog stays spam free while I’m gone. Back on Sunday evening. Mom has my contact information in case of emergency. Have…
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