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. [View Full Entry]

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We left The Smokeys at about 4ish (pm) and drove until 8 something (pm) stopped for gas & KFC (we haven't eaten out much during this trip, but I was tired) in Alabama, after driving through the rest of TN a small part of georgia. We went on to the next rest stop and ate there and I decided to just get some rest there. I woke the kids around 12:30 am to get back to the road. I could sleep well, there was about 20 trucks & me and they all had the engines running the whole time (like they [View Full Entry]

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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 [View Full Entry]

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Next morning we went to a pancake breakfast there at the camp and while the kids finished up and went to the park I tore the truck and trailer apart and cleaned it all up while looking for the kids.....found them where 3 of the kids had already "looked". we packed everything up and drove into Gettsyburg. We found the visitor center, a few battlefields and the Cemetery. Also the sight of the Gettysburg Address. We went to Cemetery Hill battlefield first then across the street to the Cemetery. It was really amazing to see so many old grave sites and [View Full Entry]

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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 [View Full Entry]

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When we left Quebec we were headed to Fundy Nat'l Park in New Brunswick. At Hartland we took a detour to see the longest covered Bridge at 1,282 ft long. We took a few pictures, but it was being worked on so it was closed. We passed a few more covered bridges on the way to Woodstock, where we decided to camp for the night. When we woke, we were over looking a nice river right by an old bridge....the kids took some time inthe morning to play at the park and pick so wild apples. After breakfast we drove on [View Full Entry]

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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 [View Full Entry]

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On the way out of P.E.I we picked up a bag of P.E.I. irish potatoes-yum....and went back over that long-long bridge. Nova Scotia wasn't that that far, just a few minutes through New brunswick and your there. First thoughts was no one lives here. After the visitor Center there are miles of just hill and trees. we drove south to a campground northwest of Halifax and stayed the night. Next morning we drove noth west to Windsor (I think the 5th we have driven through on this trip) to see the south side of the bay of Fundy. From there we [View Full Entry]

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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 [View Full Entry]

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From Ottawa we drove to Montreal and did a little looking around. We were able to see the Olympic Dome, old town Montreal and a very old church. We found a look out place on top of the mountain and were able to see the whole city. Montreal is a pretty city with lots of parks. We ate lunch here and bought some french cookies. Most everyone here speaks French...some only speak French. We bought gas outside the city and It took 3 people to understand that we just needed to pay for gas. the vote was to drive on [View Full Entry]

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