It’s over. So now I need to sum up the last days of it, and send it off into blogspace so I can move on to where we really are – moving down the eastern seaboard of the United States. From Glace Bay we drove to Baddeck, and visited the Alexander Graham Bell Museum. He [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Trip 3 July 2009- WI to ME and Canada’
The end of the Canadian Maritime trip
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Atlantic Canada RV trip, MacLeod Campground Cape Breton, Trip 3 July 2009- WI to ME and Canada on October 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Men of the Deeps, Cape Breton
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Atlantic Canada RV trip, Cape Breton Music, Men of the Deeps, Trip 3 July 2009- WI to ME and Canada on October 19, 2009 | 4 Comments »
We drive back to the mining museum in Glace Bay – Dick goes down into the mine on a tour, and I go through the museum, waiting for the group to arrive for their rehearsal. I have so much respect for these guys before they even start singing. For those of you who don’t know [...]
Fortress Louisbourg and Cape Breton Music
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Atlantic Canada RV trip, Cape Breton Music, Fortress Louisbourg, Jason Hempt, Jennifer Roland, Trip 3 July 2009- WI to ME and Canada on October 15, 2009 | 4 Comments »
We choose Point of View RV Park for our stay here. They have a hotel at the end of a little peninsula, right in town, but the “campground” (more like a nicely appointed parking lot) has views of the water, and since we’re off peak, we’re basically alone in it. The people who run it [...]
Disastors in Halifax -The Titanic and the Explosion of 1917
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Atlantic Canada RV trip, Halifax, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Trip 3 July 2009- WI to ME and Canada on October 12, 2009 | 2 Comments »
It was hard to leave the Lunenburg area, so we eked out one more night at an RV park right in Lunenburg itself. You’d never know we were in the town, (and close to the filming of Moby Dick) given the view and the visiting deer. But after five nights, it was time to move on [...]
How to watch a Packer game in a Navion 24J in Nova Scotia
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Atlantic Canada RV trip, Blue Rocks Nova Scotia, Navion 24J, Trip 3 July 2009- WI to ME and Canada on October 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Just pull over. We decided to drive to Blue Rocks, just beyond Lunenburg. What a good place to test our clear view to the southern sky… Reception was great. So was the view. (This was the Packer – Rams game, from a week ago. There won’t be pictures of us watching the Vikings …)
Lunenburg and Moby Dick
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Atlantic Canada RV trip, Filming of Moby Dick, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Trip 3 July 2009- WI to ME and Canada, William Hurt on October 5, 2009 | 3 Comments »
To say Lunenburg is a colorful little port is an understatement. It’s a candy store for the eye. Oh, please don’t let me say William Hurt is too…oops! Yes, they’re filming Moby Dick here (with William Hurt, Ethan Hawke, Donald Sutherland and Gillian Anderson), but that’s not why we came. We had no idea they [...]
The Ovens and a surprise guest at the campfire
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Atlantic Canada RV trip, Nova Scotia, The Ovens Natural Park, Trip 3 July 2009- WI to ME and Canada on October 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I could rhapsodize about Ovens Natural Park for pages, but am way behind on blogging – so will sum it up quickly and share a campfire story. Being off-season, we had the place to ourselves, with unlimited ocean views and crashing surf. There are sea caves to explore. And great hiking, along rocky shoreline overlooking [...]
Evangeline and Grand Pre National Historic Site, Nova Scotia
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Atlantic Canada RV trip, Evangeline, Forest Primeval Resort Wisconsin, Grand Pre National Historic Site, Nova Scotia, Trip 3 July 2009- WI to ME and Canada on September 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The opening lines of Longfellow’s poem, “Evangeline”, have thilled me ever since I was a little girl. I can’t take credit for any literary precociousness – “Forest Primeval” was the name of the northern Wisconsin resort where my family rented a cabin for several weeks each summer when I was growing up. The entry sign [...]
Digby and Port Royal Historic Site, Nova Scotia
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Annapolis Royal, Atlantic Canada RV trip, Digby, Port Royal National Historic Site, Trip 3 July 2009- WI to ME and Canada on September 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
We took the ferry from St. John to Digby, NS, a pleasant 3 hour trip. The Bay of Fundy was not as roiled as it was when we took the Bluenose from Bar Harbor to Yarmouth a few years back with my Mom and Dad. I didn’t feel the need to kiss the ground when [...]
St. Andrews, New Brunswick
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Atlantic Canada RV trip, RV travel, St. Andrew's New Brunswick, Trip 3 July 2009- WI to ME and Canada on September 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Usually we think of campgrounds as a means to an end. Not that lots of them haven’t been beautiful – we’ve enjoyed gorgeous views, hikes and amenities (we’ll make travel plans AROUND one with a great restaurant!). But the main reason we stay in them is to get somewhere, visit something. We can choose a [...]
