Day 11 – Hopewell Rocks and Fundy National Park
We’re leaving this cute English B&B just in time to hit Hopewell Rocks at low tide, walk on the ocean floor, and watch the highest tide in the world rolling in. Should be pretty spectacular. We’re...
View ArticleSt. George, New Brunswick
Since it was getting dark and the high tide was coming in when we passed Hopewell Rocks on our way up, we decided to swing back through there on our way down. Hopewell Rocks, also called the Flowerpot...
View ArticleDay 12 – back to the U.S.
The fog hasn’t lifted but we’re hoping it’ll get better further down the coast. Since the rain had chased us away from the Maine coast on our way up, we have that to look forward to today. First stop,...
View ArticleBar Harbor, Maine
We’re back in the United States – a few minutes before we left Canada, the fog lifted and the sun waved us good-bye. I switched my speedometer back to miles, explained to the U.S. immigration officer...
View ArticleDay 13 – headed home
We’re running out of clean clothes, the bikes are begging for a cleaning, and the Atlantic Coast is running out of cool stuff to impress us with – it’s time to go home. A quick breakfast stop in the...
View ArticleDay 14 – almost home
We have 450 miles of riding on interstates ahead of us and then we’ll be home. I am not really looking forward to it though … I miss Newfoundland.
View ArticleGeorgetown, Washington, DC
We finally made it home at around 8:30 pm last night. We got stuck in backed-up traffic due to construction on I-84 in Connecticut, and the toll booths on the New Jersey turnpike slowed us down as...
View ArticleNewfoundland – Best Of
The music was recorded live in the bar of the Newfoundland ferry – would love to give the two musicians credit but I have no idea what their names or the name of their two-man band were. Great guys...
View ArticleNewfoundland – Accomodations, Part I
I found traveling in Newfoundland incredibly easy … mainly because we weren’t given many choices for routes : the Trans Canada Highway (Highway 1) and the Viking Trail (Highway 430) were pretty much...
View ArticleNewfoundland – Accomodations, Part II
One of the coolest things we saw in Newfoundland was a flying boat, a Canadair CL-215 (“Scooper”) which is an amphibious aircraft that is used to fight forest fires. It is able to land and take off...
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