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Quebec City and Home

Saturday 8-5 was a good day for travel, no rain and mostly sunny, and we drove the 8+ hours to Quebec City for a short stay.  Much of the trip along Rte. 138 was adjacent to the St. Lawrence River...

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On to Quebec

Tuesday 8-1 saw us up early to get a jump on the drive of the day.  The Trans-Labrador highway only runs 20 km or so out of Labrador City to the Quebec border where the road becomes Quebec 389. We...

Labrador – Red Bay to North West River and Labrador City

Friday 7-28, was a travel day – we were prepared to assault the Trans-Labrador Highway (TLH) from Red Bay north to Happy Valley – Goose Bay west to Labrador City.  Then on Quebec Rte. 389 from just...

Labrador – Red Bay Area

Tuesday, July 25 was a travel day to the ferry for Labrador, sailing out of St. Barbe, NL.  We got there early, which was good as we had heard that sometimes people are left off the ferry if it is too...

Newfoundland – Quirpon/L’anse aux Meadows

July 22nd – July 24th Saturday was a travel day; we headed to Quirpon, a small town at the tip of the Great Northern Peninsula of NL.  The drive up Rt 430 on the Western coast of Newfoundland was...

Newfoundland – Gros Morne

Gros Morne July 19th – July 22nd  Wednesday – We drove the 7 hours to Gros Morne National Park on the west coast of the Great Northern Penninsula of NL, construction delays costing us 90 minutes...

Newfoundland – Twillingate

July 16th – July 20th       Sunday was a travel day to Twillingate, a city, county, and area on the northern coast of central NL and confirmed to be a good place to see icebergs and whales, which it...

Newfoundland – St. John’s

July 12th – July 19th Wednesday was a travel day, to North Sydney, for the ferry from Nova Scotia to Newfoundland, “the island” as the locals call it, and rightly so as NL is an island.  The ferry is...

Antigonish and the Highland Games

Antigonish Nova Scotia – July 6th – July 11th Wednesday was a pack up and travel day, to Antigonish, and a set up camp day as well.  The campground is in the heart of Antigonish’s downtown, only...

Cape Breton, Nova Scotia

June 29-July 5 (Days 23 -28) Cape Breton is an island north in Nova Scotia connected by a causeway. The people have a lot of Scottish history and the northern part of Cape Breton is know for the Cabot...