Category: 2024 Travels
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Our Shortened Tour of PEI
As Sue mentioned in Oh, Canada, we had to leave a Pleasure Way RV Owners Rally because Joe contracted COVID. However, in the 10 days before illness forced us back to the US to quarantine, we visited a number of interesting and beautiful areas in New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island that are worth mentioning.…
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How we stopped smoking this year.
We stopped making campfires with wood on this trip. (Hope you were not thinking we meant the other kind of smoking 😉.) Everyone loves sitting around a campfire, especially us. There’s just something about watching the flames and feeling the warmth of the fire on a cool evening while enjoying an adult beverage that is…
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The Original 1845 Capitol of Albert County, New Brunswick
Just up the road from our campground in Lower Cape, New Brunswick, is the unique and special Albert County Museum & R.B. Bennett Commemorative Center featuring historical exhibits about the land, sea and people of Albert County scattered across eight original buildings on the original site of the 1845 Capital of Albert County, New Brunswick.…
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EZ to Pass on higher tolls
Upon our return home, Joe always checks our E-ZPass charges and noticed a $31.97 charge for crossing the Mario Coumo Bridge in New York on June 1. The toll appeared to be excessive so he filed a toll dispute with E-ZPass. Unexpectedly, he received an email response within an hour. If our E-ZPass transponder had…
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Hopewell Rocks
As mentioned in our previous blog, the extreme tides of the Bay of Fundy produces several fascinating and unusual features along the coastline. Just up the coast from the Fundy Parkway, Hopewell Rocks provincial park provides an opportunity to see the effects of thousands of years of erosion at both high and low tides. This…
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Fundy Trail Parkway
The Parkway was conceived in the early 1990’s by businessman Mitchell Franklin. He lobbied for the construction of an accessible trail system along the Bay of Fundy. His daughter recalls how her father took New Brunswick Premier Frank McKenna for a sightseeing tour of the area in 1994, “I knew he was important because the…
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Oh, Canada!
Even the best laid plans can go awry as we unfortunately discovered this week. We had to cut short our stay in Canada by 12 days and high-tail it back to Maine. You may wonder, why the sudden return?! We’ve had a terrific three weeks and met a number of wonderfully kind people. Canada is…
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Crossing the Border
We experienced some trepidation concerning crossing the border into New Brunswick. Unlike crossing the border during air travel, we had far more stuff with us, especially food, which is always a concern. Our border experience started off on a bad note. The customs guard asked for our license plate number. Apparently our bike rack obscures…
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Freeport, Maine
We had a pleasant and uneventful drive to Freeport, ME. No low overpasses, or police escorts. We traveled to Freeport expressly to visit the L.L. Bean Flagship store. L.L. Bean was founded in 1912 by Leon Leonwood Bean. Bean was an avid outdoorsman who grew exasperated with leaking leather boots and developed a waterproof…
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PA to MA
Our first day of travel began like so many others: A trip to the Municipal trash facility so we didn’t have garbage sitting in the trash can for 6 weeks: Parking our two cars at the end of the driveway so our lawn service could get their mowers into the back yard; and ensuring the…