Happy Birthday Mum! Hopefully you think a surprise visit home by Mike and I is a good birthday present. To ours friends, I know it is short notice but we will be in Toronto from June 22 – July 2. Give us a call. Since we needed to get to …
Mike and I have seen many very different sites over the last few days. We spent a great day at the Egeskov …
Instead of talking about what we have seen and what we have been doing I thought that I would dedicate this blog …
Northern Denmark – Mike and I are currently in Skagen which is the northernmost town in Denmark. Skagen is the most “touristy” …
We have visited various Danish attractions in the last few days. We spent some time in Ribe which is Denmark’s oldest town. It …
It’s been a few days since I posted a note so this one might jump around a little. My apologies if the …
Mike and I have spent the last two weeks in northern Germany. Our thanks go to Clemens, our friend from Hamburg, for …
Hamburg Miniature Wonderland Wow, it is no wonder that this Miniature Wonderland is considered Hamburg’s number one tourist attraction. It is said …
It has been almost a week since we left Mike’s family in Holland. I feel like we have really started our …
Antwerpen, Belgium: It worked. The shipping company got our motorhome and our car from Halifax to Antwerpen. Our agents in Antwerpen had …
A very strange beginning to our trip. Our plane was due to leave Toronto for Reykjavik at 7pm Sunday night. When I …
Mike and I have spent the last week traveling through the northern US: Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and now upper New York …
Mike and I spent almost two weeks on the island of Cape Breton. What a glorious time of year (ignoring hurricanes!). The …
October 22, 1976 to October 22, 2016. A happy 40th anniversary to my best friend and husband. My love and my thanks …
Mike and I left Newfoundland a little quicker than we wanted so that we could get to the Celtic Colours festival in …
Yet again does a hurricane far off-shore affect our trip. The remnants of Hurricane Matthew have given us an extremely “interesting” Thanksgiving. …
I don’t want to write this entry because it means that our time in Newfoundland and Labrador is over for now. Mike …
Slopes and Hills – not great for the Lincoln or the RV. Both the RV and the Lincoln have each run into …
I am sitting here in our RV living room with my feet up in my recliner looking out the window. What is …
We just spent two nights in Cupids and it was super. Everything went great: our camping location, the hospitable people we met …
Mike and I have spent three days so far on the western arm of the Avalon Peninsula. On Monday we drove …
We have just spent 5 days on the Bonavista Peninsula. Other than worrying about running out of propane we had a super …
This entry is just a quick test to see how a very wide panorama photo works. If you click on the photo …
We have just spent five nights on Fogo Island. It is a barren rock with lots of ocean and a really super …
We arrived on Fogo Island last night along with Environment Canada’s warnings about really strong winds and tying campers down. Apparently Hurricane …
This note was originally going to be titled “Newfoundland: Music Everywhere” but I just realized that Mike and I have spent the …
Newfoundland is amazing. You would expect an important site like Gros Morne to have a lot of good walking trails. What you …
We have just spent almost one month on the Northern Peninsula of Newfoundland and had a great time. Lots of well marked …
SUCCESS! Exactly one month ago today (note: this was written a week ago) Mike diagnosed a problem in Labrador City with our …
We are having a great time in Gros Morne and went on a superb boat ride tonight. We weren’t sure that it …
Mike and I are staying in the northern section of Gros Morne National Park for a few days. We will then move …
Nowhere in Newfoundland and Labrador have we seen houses and decorations in the somewhat dull earth tones that we see in Southern …
This website started because whenever Mike and I traveled I would send letters home. Friends started asking for me to copy them …
Have a look at the pictures here. They all have one thing in common, a door that leads to nowhere. Well in …
We are at the tip of the Northern Peninsula in L’Anse aux Meadows, home of the historic Viking settlement. After two days …
We have spent the last day and a half around St. Anthony in the Northern Peninsula of Newfoundland and we are having …
Here is our final entry for Labrador. This was the one area that we planned to visit on this trip where Mike …
Paved roads and intermittent cell phone coverage, my new idea of civilization :-). Some great times and a few not so great …
For more than two weeks now we have been boondocking or, more correctly, dry camping. Boondocking is basically camping without services such …
Well our plan to visit Happy Valley – Goose Bay for a couple of days turned into a full week. I am …
This might also be called “A Parcel that has more air miles than I do”. You may remember that we were having …
The good news is that the road between Labrador City and Goose Bay looks to be excellent. They have just finished paving …
This is our last night in Labrador City before we leave on the Trans-Labrador Highway and the unknown. For those that want …
Just a quick note so that no one feels too sorry for us. We have just arrived in Labrador City. The people …
Before we started out this morning Mike took the garbage across the road to a forestry campsite. He encountered a red fox …
After we left Quebec City region we started driving and encontered some of the steepest climbs and descents we have ever had …
Walmart parking lot – what a great place to meet interesting people 🙂 In Quebec City we decided to stay in a …
Mike and I both really like old Quebec so we couldn’t miss a chance of visiting it again. Actually we spent quite …
July 1, Canada Day on Parliament Hill. As we finally arrived in Ottawa it was only right that we spend Canada Day …
We were again heading for Ottawa when we stopped for lunch in Perth. The waitress told us about what they hoped would …
On our last big RV trip one thing we quickly learned was that we missed our boat. It seemed like every campground …
When we purchased our RV one of the marketing features was that our model had the largest single windscreen in the industry. …
For those friends that we haven’t seen recently here is a quick update of the major changes Mike and I have seen …
Was our trip great – absolutely it was phenomenal! Mike and I had a really, really super time and neither of us …
Now our trip is basically about getting home via a scenic drive around the southern side of Lake Erie. We intended to …
I am writing this sitting on one very sore, probably black and blue bum. Mike and I drove to the Cuyahoga Valley …
Mike and I left St. Louis Missouri and then drove through Indiana enroute to Cleveland Ohio. Somewhere we went from central to …
Missouri doesn’t score really high marks for its uniqueness of town names. The other night we stayed in Lebanon. We have either …
We left the current capital of Oklahoma for the original historic capital Guthrie. The creation and settlement of Guthrie occurred in less …
We have covered some ground since I last wrote. We did visit Lubbock and Amarillo, Texas. In Lubbock we went to tour …
First things first. Happy Thanksgiving to all my Canadian family and friends. Changing our route to visit Carlsbad Caverns was definitely the …
After leaving Albuquerque we next stopped near a town call Las Cruces. We didn’t actually see the town. The entire area is …
Mike and I are just leaving Albuquerque and heading south. We spent almost four days in Albuquerque during their huge hot air …
What a fabulous day! We spent today driving and walking around the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. It is a few …
We have just spent the last couple of days in Zion Canyon National Park and like everything else in this area it …
Bryce Canyon is gorgeous! Hoodoos are skinny towers of rock that, in Bryce Canyon, can be from 5 feet to 150 feet …
Thank-you Harold, Jim, friends in New York and everyone who told us that we should make sure to stop in Moab while …
We booked into a campground in Salt Lake City for two nights, we then extended it to three nights and again extended …
We entered Yellowstone through their north entrance. The first thing that we saw was steam coming up from the puddles on the …
Mike and I have just left Yellowstone where we have had no internet and largely no cell service for four days so …
We have been in the US for a couple of days and are just heading into Yellowstone National Park. On our first …
After 37 days travelling across Canada we are heading south into the US towards Yellowstone Park. I thought that I would write …
Well it is now Monday and I haven’t uploaded my last article yet. I will probably upload both together when I finally …
Today is catchup in my writing. I hope to get this posted sometime soon but we are in an area of no …
Disappointingly our trip to Jasper wasn’t our best day. We had originally hoped to park the RV near Jasper and then use …
We started out this trip on the August 1 long weekend and ended up spending our first night in a Walmart parking …
On Tuesday morning we left Fort McMurray for the second time. Our route had changed and we were now heading for Slave …
It is 9pm on Monday night and I am sitting alone in our RV in a parking lot in Fort McMurray. 10:30 …
Mike and I have just spent a very pleasant three days in Fort McMurray. We have family there and they did a …
OK, maybe that is a little bit of an exaggeration but anything larger than speed bumps are hills when we are on …
We have just spent a couple of days in Cold Lake, Alberta home to a Canadian Forces base. Some of you may …
Short update. Mike and I have made it into Saskatchewan. We got up this morning in Manitoba planning on going for a bike …
I am writing this on the road just leaving Winnipeg where we have spent the last three nights. Mike had to attend …
Our first week is over, eleven to go. We gave up on our plan to keep following Hwy 11 to the end. …
Well plans changed again. Isn’t that what holidays are for. Enroute to Thunder Bay we drove past a turnoff for the town …
Day 7 YEAH, I got my map working for this blog, finally. Maybe it isn’t perfect but it does what I want. …
It is day 6 and we have just left Hearst, Ontario enroute slowly to Thunder Bay. This might be another night staying …
Day 4 and 5 The campground in Swastika was very nice; quiet and peaceful. Mike and I started the day by trying …
Day 3, holiday Monday, and we are heading north. Since Mike hadn’t heard back from his friend in Sudbury we decided to …
So it is day 2 and we have just left Walmart in Wasaga Beach on our way to Sudbury. We just drove …
Day 01 Saturday August 2 We did it! We have started our trip. A few minor problems hooking up the car. I …
So after six different trips to Hitch City the car can finally be towed. Shouldn’t the word alarm mean that it goes …
Day 14 & 15 On to the Sand Dunes – Nida, Lithuania: Well Mike and I did as was strongly suggested and …
Day 11 Monday Sigulda, Latvia to Lithuania: Today went a little different than expected. We had planned to go back to Cēsis …
General Notes: I thought that I would start this time with some overall impressions so far. The first thing that we notice …
DAY 6 – Island of Saaremaa in Estonia What a lovely day this was. Probably the best preserved medieval castle in the …
I am really too tired to type this now but it is our last evening in Riga and tomorrow we start on …
