Tag: rv travel
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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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Sweet Start to Summer
Turns out that taking two quick trips in May was beneficial in so many ways. As mentioned in our last post, two of our favorite beach communities include the Outer Banks of North Carolina and Cape May, New Jersey. The purpose of traveling to these locales was to ensure the rig was ready for the…
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Time to Pack
We are one week away from the first of two short “shake-down” trips in May. We decided to take a couple shorter trips in May to 1) ensure we’re prepared for longer trips this summer, i.e., did we remember everything?! (thus, “shake-down”), 2) settle into our new rig (we only had a month in the…
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A few improvements before the start of the 2024 travel season
The temperatures have started to climb on the East Coast and that’s when the realization hit home that “Travel Season” is just a few months away. We best get started on all the improvements we contemplated doing when we purchased the Plateau XLTS last October so we will be ready for our first trip in…