DeAnn

We are leaving early Saturday the 7th from Home to Mazatlan for 7 days without kids. This is a major deal as we have not been alone for a week in 14 years. Very worried about leaving the little one as a week is a LONG time at that age and until now have not left her for more then a few hours at a time. We are staying at EL CID in the "golden coast" area. I haven't been to this part of Mexico, so should be interesting. ... read more

We wake up to find that we just "happen" to be a hop-skip & jump from the Great Smokey Mountains. So we go...... Trevor had heard about the bear attack here a month ago, right before we left on our trip and he's not a big fan of heights, so he wasn't thrilled. We came in through the Tenn side and had to pass all the tourist stuff. I've never been here before and was very suprised to find just how tourist-y this place was. Shouldn't have been suprised. We had read that this was the busiest National Park in the country and about twice the amount of people visit the Smokey then visit the Grand Canyon, which is number two. We opened our trusty National parks book to see what we "had" to see and ... read more

Next morning after a re-vote and a re-count of the miles to get to Cape Bredon (about 750 round trip) we decided to drive home before the rain can ruin the trailer. We have 2600 miles to go. So at 7am we start towards the US. Getting across New Bunswick takes hours (we are avg about 50 mph or 85 k because we can't drive too fast towing a trailer). Getting in to US as American's was much easier then getting into Canada, not that it was that bad. there was another check point in Maine after about 50 miles. Maine took about 13 hours to cross and still no moose to be seen despite the warnings everywhere. We decided to take some smaller roads to get a little look around as we entered NH. We ... read more

After looking at Fundy Bay one last time we start for Prince Edward Island or P.E.I. as the locals call it. To get to this wonderful place you have to cross a longgggggg bridge one lane each way. now when I say long.....it's long about 8 miles long without any land below. at the highest point it's about 200ft tall. The Confederation Bridge is the longest continuous marine span bridge in the world over ice-covered waters (a bridge over troubled waters). It was just built in 1997, until then the only way to reach P.E.I. is by ferries, which don't function in icy waters so well. It's a toll bridge, but they don't charge you coming in....just leaving and plenty. So once on P.E.I. we drove up to the Cavendish area and found a camp and ... read more

Drove to a bus park and ride and took the bus into town. This is much easier then what we've had to deal with in some other cities. For the bargain price of $5 for all of us (me $2, Delaney free & the kids $1) we get passage on the buses all day and without the hassle of looking for parking (or paying for it). Took the bus to Old town Quebec, really neat place, it's a walled city inside a city on a cliff, next to a river. We walked up the small, winding cobblestone streets all the way to the castle at the top, looking into most of the shops on the way up. This place is very French but also tourist filled. We did some museums about life 100-300 yrs ago in ... read more