The Band Played On
2023年7月6日, カナダ ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
On our first full day in Nova Scotia, music found us— a noon hour concert at the Tidal Bore in Truro, and later in Antigonish an outdoor ceilidh whose fiddle and short pipe reels, jigs, and airs hadもっと詳しく
Chocolate
2023年7月3日, カナダ ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C
Many years ago, Coleen and I visited the Hershey chocolate factory in Pennsylvania. It was fun enough and at the end of the tour we each got a chocolate. So, I had no great expectations for the Ganongもっと詳しく
I Want to Ride …
2023年7月2日, カナダ ⋅ ☁️ 24 °C
… my bicycle. I want ride it where I like. (Queen) It was a good day to cycle even with threatening Atlantic skies and an even more ominous rainfall warning. But nothing ventured, nothing gained asもっと詳しく
旅行者Did you take in the Potato Festival? I wonder what would be different. In Alberta, potatoes would be ready in September/October so it sounds a bit early for the festival.
旅行者I agree. We arrived at the end of the day as things were winding down. McCains was founded not so far away and there is a huge processing plant nearby.
History to Celebrate
2023年7月1日, カナダ ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C
While Canada was celebrating its 156th birthday yesterday, the town of Rivière de Loup was marking its 350th anniversary. We stumbled upon it when we asked at the tourist information centre where theもっと詳しく
The Maple Leaf
2023年7月1日, カナダ ⋅ ☁️ 24 °C
I love our leaf. Seriously, is there a better flag in the world? We marked our Canada Day celebrations in two provinces, Quebec and New Brunswick.
In-Spired
2023年6月30日, カナダ ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
The churches in small-town Quebec are incredible. Their spires, towering over the forests as we approach. How the local communities support these edifices is beyond me.
Stay on the Sidewalk
2023年6月28日, カナダ ⋅ 🌧 19 °C
… and no one gets detained by trigger-happy American border guards. The Haskell Free Library & Opera House straddles the Canadian-USA border. A black line runs through the building marking whichもっと詳しく
旅行者So you would cross the border to attend the opera. An international experience.
Love, Love, Loving It
2023年6月27日, カナダ ⋅ 🌧 21 °C
Charming country lanes, covered bridges, farm-fresh strawberries, smelly French cheese, modern art instalments, new-to-me signs, high school French attempts, Colonial architecture, patient locals …もっと詳しく
Inked
2023年6月26日, カナダ ⋅ ☁️ 24 °C
Lazy post …
旅行者I can’t believe it’s been 29 days since I saw you two. It’s been an enjoyable time reading about your daily adventures , thoughts and experiencing your travels through your pictures. Nice to see your smiling faces.
Ann
2023年6月25日, カナダ ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C
When the Paul family moved to Rainier in the summer of 1974, we only knew a few families. Little did I know that our neighbours up the road — a widow and her two children would become such fastもっと詳しく
Ottawa
2023年6月24日, カナダ ⋅ ☁️ 25 °C
A good chunk of my first novel, The Sunbeam Room, was set in Ottawa. So it was joy today to visit the house that my protagonist Sarah lived in, walk up Elgin Street and scout out potential cafes whereもっと詳しく
旅行者Wonderful to walk in the footsteps of fiction and meet new friends along the way.
Distant Relatives
2023年6月23日, カナダ ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C
What’s that old saw? When people are doing their family tree, there’s a whole lot of pruning going on. But in this case I truly am related to the inventor of basketball — James Naismith — whoもっと詳しく
Reading on the Road
2023年6月21日, カナダ ⋅ ☀️ 30 °C
Our mission to go to an independent bookseller in each province continued yesterday in Sudbury with Bay’s Used Books. We dutifully donned our Analog Books t-shirts and took pictures in front ofもっと詳しく
Small Towns
2023年6月20日, カナダ ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
Small towns … oh how I love them. Whether it’s Carberry, Maple Creek, or Thessalon, there is a peaceful and nostalgic feel to them. Yesterday, in Thessalon, we were able to locate the sister of aもっと詳しく
Ruffled Feathers
2023年6月19日, カナダ ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
… so I may have exaggerated a bit in my last cliffhanger post. It was less a growl from a bear and more like a squawk from a pissed off momma grouse. This was the third encounter with the northernもっと詳しく
Forest Sounds
2023年6月16日, カナダ ⋅ 🌙 10 °C
Heard today on our 6-hour hike to the White River Suspension Bridge in Pukaskwa National Park … The murmur of a distant waterfall, the click clacking of our pole tips on centuries-old rock, theもっと詳しく
Of Rocks and Bears
2023年6月16日, カナダ ⋅ ☀️ 13 °C
While driving to a waterfall today we saw a momma black bear and her three cubs on the side of the forest-lined road. They scampered off into the bush and climbed up a tree faster than a jack rabbitもっと詳しく
Explore
2023年6月15日, カナダ ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C
… we continue to explore Northern Ontario, taking side trips off the TransCanada today to visit the jaw-dropping Ouimet Canyon, flip a loonie at the Nipigon Bridge (the loon won .. so southern routeもっと詳しく
I Gave at the Office
2023年6月14日, カナダ ⋅ ☁️ 9 °C
The mosquitoes in northern Ontario are not buying this line. They come in swarms on the trail, and, when we are in the parked van, eagerly await an open door, their evil little faces looking insideもっと詳しく
You Wear Fun Well
2023年6月13日, カナダ ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
… said the store clerk after asking Coleen and I if we were retired. This trip has awakened our travel kraken. Each day a voyage of discovery, something new around the curve, a serendipitousもっと詳しく
旅行者I love your Caption . . . Yes you both show your retirement well. Great pictures. Nice you can see so much nature. We also enjoy following your adventures.
Whiteshell Provincial Park
2023年6月11日, カナダ ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
We enjoyed some much needed nature therapy in our two-day stay at Whiteshell.
Biplane dragonflies led us down glittering forest paths. A butterfly and hummingbird amused us at a lake lookout. A deerもっと詳しく
Discovery
2023年6月9日, カナダ ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
Our day began in discovery and enlightenment before ending in disillusionment.
The morning would see us at the Canadian Indigenous Residential School Museum in Portage la Prairies, the exhibitsもっと詳しく
旅行者Some of Canadian history is very haunting. There's no more being blissfully ignorant. We're very sorry to hear that thieves made off with Coleen's new bike. Maybe house insurance would cover it, if there is a police report.
旅行者Sorry to hear about Coleen’s bike. The visit you had is interesting and a very sad part of Canadian history. Thanks for sharing this.
Day of Rest
2023年6月7日, カナダ ⋅ 🌧 30 °C
After 8 days of touring and 1,800 kilometres of travel, we took a sojourn in Spruce Woods Provincial Park to read, rest and reflect. Lazy day cycling part of the TransCanada Trail and chilling outもっと詳しく
Beating the Heat
2023年6月6日, カナダ ⋅ ⛅ 30 °C
Finnegan’s form of air conditioning is rolling the van windows down as the Prairie heat wave has followed us from Saskatchewan into Manitoba. So we are trying all manner of ways to keep cool —もっと詳しく
Clipping Along
2023年6月5日, カナダ ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C
Our days begin early, literally up with the dawn. Last night we boon docked at the Moose Jaw Walmart with about 5 other stingy campers. It worked out far better than I expected. Actuallyもっと詳しく
The Giant and the Mobster
2023年6月4日, カナダ ⋅ 🌙 21 °C
“Go to Willowbunch, birthplace of Canada’s tallest man,” the camper told Coleen.
And so yesterday, we were the first, early-morning tourists knocking on the convent door that has swapped outもっと詳しく
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旅行者Cape George lighthouse north of Antigonish is a nice lookout, if you’re still in the neighborhood!
旅行者Thanks Anneke for the suggestion. Will have to hit it on our way back. Ferry reservation to Newfoundland has required us to move thru Nova Scotia quickly. Will have more time on our return in 3 weeks.
旅行者Music and Nova Scotia just seem synonymous.