Aug 21, 2017 - Touring Vancouver

Ok. Where did I leave off? No internet again for several days. At this rate I will finish my journal when I am back in Colorado. After our quick trip through Vancouver Island we took the ferry back to Vancouver. My sister and her hubby had a half a day to spend in Vancouver before catching their flight back to Chicago. We were staying in North Vancouver near the Capilano Park and Grouse Mountain. They choose to take the Grouse Mountain Skyride which is a tramway that ascends 2800ft up Grouse Mountain. The top of the mountain is supposed to...

Aug 21, 2017 - MS Atlantic Vision to St John's

Thick fog this morning so nothing to see on deck. I’m in yet another time zone (Newfoundland Daylight Time), which is ½ an hour ahead of Atlantic Daylight Time so I’m now in my 5th time zone, 4½ hours ahead of Vancouver, only 2½ hours behind GMT which puts in perspective where I am geographically. It was still foggy when we got off the ferry at 10:00am. I stopped at the Visitors Centre to start up the fridge again, get something to eat & drink & sort things out a bit. The snack bar, which sold juice & sandwiches, etc on the ship had some...

Aug 21, 2017 - Quebec City, QC

Pulled into the Quebec City KOA around 1:30 after fighting overcast and hazy skies and a heck of a cross wind most of the drive. The sun did break out of hiding by mid afternoon, just in time for the eclipse. I was too busy enjoying a nice long shower. Tomorrow, it's off the Ottawa staying at the Welsey Clover Campground and spending a couple days with our middle son before the final leg home.

Aug 21, 2017 - Tidal Bore and more.....

Our last full day here in the Truro area and a great one it was! We started our day with the sun shining, no wind, no rain and drinking our coffee in 20+ degrees by 10:30 AM. Dan and Deb picked us up and off we went to the Tidal Bore viewing area. The Bay of Fundy's Minas Basin has the highest tides in the world. The height of the Tidal Bore increases depending on the phase of the moon so today was a good tide. You can go rafting on the tide but we all decided we did not like the idea of getting muddy. Also, most of you know I am not a...

Aug 20, 2017 - Woodstock, NB

Well, it ended up raining the rest of the day and most of the night as well. It did break finally just before we hit the road again. No pictures. Too hazy and overcast. The Transcanada Highway through upper New Brunswick has to be the most pain landscape around. It didn't take long to get tired of it.

Aug 20, 2017 - Weekend

What extreme weather we had this weekend. Yesterday it rained all day but we went out and about anyway. Our campground is only a few kilometres from Truro so it was an easy drive to the Farmer's Market and it was indoors for the most part. There were the usual booths of fresh vegetables, crafts, and other miscellaneous offerings. I was surprised at the number of wineries and distilleries that had booths and even better samples! Later in the day we went to a barbeque at one of Deb's brothers..she has seven brothers and sisters and they all...

Aug 20, 2017 - One more ferry ride

It’s time to leave Newfoundland and the morning was rainy with gusts of wind. We all traveled together to the end of TCH 1 to get on the ferry out of Port aux Basque. This will be a day trip of about 7 hours. I took Dramamine today because of the rain and wind and the sea! But it wasn’t so bad and we got out of bad weather about halfway over the Gulf. Most of us spent the time reading, napping, doing puzzles in books, etc. It was only a 3.5 mile drive back to the Arm of Gold campground so that circle is complete. There was music in the barn...

Aug 19, 2017 - Linwood to North Sydney

This morning I crossed over the Canso causeway onto Cape Breton Island, home of the famous Cabot Trail but I’ll do that after I come back from Newfoundland. It’s a large island, 10,000 sq km so twice the size of Prince Edward Island but it’s still part of Nova Scotia. It’s got a big hole in the middle of it which is called Bras d’Or (Golden Arm) lake & the whole island is extremely scenic. The western side, which I came through today, is very Scottish where even the place names are in English & Gaelic. It appears that the eastern side is...

Aug 19, 2017 - Day 2

We drove up into Truro to the Tidal Bore viewing area on the Salmon River. Today's tidal bore was scheduled for 10:40 am. Quite a few tourists were on hand to the view the site. Back to the park for lunch, then the rain moved in. Oh well, we're due for a nice quiet day.

Aug 19, 2017 - Touring the Codroy Valley

The Codroy valley is the most fertile on the whole island of Newfoundland. Everything is so green and lush. We set out to see this land this morning by hiking part way up a nearby mountain. There were benches and picnic tables along the way, but the tables were in bad need of repair and actually were unuseable. We joked that a moose sat for dinner there. We then went back to the campground to dress for warmer weather and went back out to walk a flat trail at the Wetlands Nature Center, owned by the Nature Conservancy. Cindy and Wendy were...

Aug 19, 2017 - Get Set

It is 2 weeks until we head out on this trip. Time to get the journal ready to go too! The plan is to head out Sunday Sept.3rd to try & miss some of the Long Weekend Holiday Traffic. The reason we are leaving at such a high traffic time is the RENO BALLOON RACES start Sept 8th.& that is our first main stop.

Aug 18, 2017 - Truro, NS

We pulled into Scotia Pines Campground around 1 o'clock. What a nice campground. Pine trees everywhere. Evidence of construction going on as the campground expands. We're only about 10 kms away from Truro, so after lunch we drove in and checked out Victoria Park. 1000 acres in the centre of town. Not many cites or towns can claim that. Walking trails, waterfalls, bandshell, cycling, picnic area and more. We took Sophie and checked out the "Witches Cauldron" and the "Joseph Howe and Waddell Falls". More rain would have improved the view at...