Canada June 1-8 Great Adventure 2023

And so it begins with a 5 hour ride from Albany NY to Portland Maine is enough of a drive. We hovered here for a day before heading northward. Of course, we had to sightsee while here.

Portland Maine June 1-2

• First stop was the Port Head Light in Cape Elizabeth. This is also the place as a fort (Fort Williams) and harbor was first commission in 1776. The USS Eagle 56, a patrol boat, was sunk by the German submarine U-853.
• The Donut Hole is a must stop for potato donuts and we did it on National Donut Day!
• Walk thru the cobblestones of Old Port, which if you let your imagination go you can envision a busy port town on the water. Now it is a busy tourist location.
• Lobster Roll was last stop of day – you can bet we will be eating a lot of these on this trip.

• Rockwood City Park site 31, uneventful 328 miles of trees and pounding rain. Brother Will breezed thru customs, us not so much. We must have looked suspicious as they pull us over to have a look-see thru truck and camper. Been a long time since someone other than Ty handled my underwear. Set up camp in howling winds, whipping rain and temp only in low 4.444 Celsius (40 F). Ate left overs and called it a night.
  • Next morning was church then Timmies (Horton) for coffee and apple fritters. Still raining and very chilly still 4.444 Celsius (40 degree F). Off to Walmart for some minor provisions and succumb to driving the walking tour. Still raining, still 40 degrees so we decide to go to the main St John museum, closed for repairs. Ok, lets go to Container Village (whole center of shops made from shipping containers), closed till Wednesday. Reversing Falls, we are between tides so nothing to see there. Oldest market in the city still in operation – City Market. It’s open. Nice stroll, Will snagged Pecan Tarts. Ended day at a downtown Bistro for comfort food.
  • St John is a bust – mainly watched Ted Lasso and played Euchre.

Next stop is the Bay of Fundy, however…

Packed up Wanda, still raining and off we go off we go up the coast to Hopewell Cape. Just a three hour ride we managed to turn it into 5 hours. Here’s how:

Before we left the campground, Ty pulled around to the restroom for me and decided to loop around for the pick up. Opsy, he picked a route that dead ended at the restroom, so he decided to try and squeeze in-between the building and the fence. Not so fast cowboy…there is an extension off the roof about to rip the side of Wanda to shreds (pulling Wanda is like a dog with a cone on its head…just no sense of the peripheral). Will and I move the “portable” fence and the picnic table and off Ty goes, snagging an overhead telephone wire! Quickly toss that, jump in the truck, and lets book!!

Will is leading, he uses Waze we use Google, and Waze said to exit then make a U-turn and get back onto the freeway! We all obediently follow along. Mind you we have not even gone 3 miles yet!

Gotta pee is the call, not 5 miles into the trip

Bay of Fundy June 6-8  New Brunswick Hopewell Cape

This is a must-see area for 2 reasons: The Bay of Fundy and the Tidal Bore.

Spent the rest of the day in Moncton, founded in 1797 thanks to Ben Franklin who owned much of land along the Petitcodiac River and shipped up 8 families to settle and start the place up. Town is known for its shipbuilding in 1800’s. Forgot to mention we also went to Walmart. Anyone counting? At least 4 stops at Walmart in 8 days.

Next stops Prince Edward Islands and Nova Scotia

By the way, the rain is actually a good thing as Halifax was just burning up with wildfires. But with all the rain it is out. AND we are in a Northeasterner weather pattern with the rain that is just swirling around us which is took all the smoke and blew it south. Plus my face is wrinkle free (well almost) with all this moisture so that is a silver lining in the rain clouds.