Motorhome News from North America 26 15th October - 25th October 2006 New York, New York and Washington Somewhere amongst our 35mm slide archives back home there’s a photo of Janice and I looking across the bay towards Sydney Harbour Bridge. “We’ve arrived,” Janice said, smiling. “This is Australia.” By that time we had already been in Australia for nearly three weeks. Such is the power of the mind. There are pictures framed in both memory and expectation, of people and places, sounds and feelings - and they were all there, tucked up in [View Full Entry]

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Motorhome News from North America 25 4th October - 14th October 2006 Massachusetts - from The Berkshires to Boston, Rhode Island and Connecticut Life is like a slippery fish; you must take a grab at every moment lest it escapes. It was late when we passed through Williamstown in the northwest corner of Massachusetts - too late to stop by the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute to view their fine collection of Renoir paintings. That’s one we missed, slipped off the hook so to speak, but our love of all things arty took us the following morning to Stockbr [View Full Entry]

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Motorhome News from North America 24 24th September - 3rd October 2006 New England in the Fall. The Hills are Alive! Rain came eventually as it does, moving us on for the long drive west, across-country through Bangor, Newport, Skowhegan, and Rangeley (in the general direction of Montreal). We drove for two hundred miles beside rising hillsides and cloud-swept mountains clad in the autumn colours of broad-leaved trees, each leaf a bold dot of oil on the canvas: the bronze of beech, yellow of birch on stark white stems, red of oaks, ash still green awaiting the firs [View Full Entry]

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Motorhome News from North America 23 13th -23rd September 2006 The south coast of New Brunswick - and back into the USA Back in New Brunswick at last, a smooth new road, hard-hatted workers in orange boiler-suits, heavy rollers, lorry loads of tarmac and happy flaggers and bright-red cones at the border, as if to say, ‘Welcome to a new world.’ It didn’t last; the roads soon degenerated off the main highway, rolling, rising and falling, a switchback on a patchwork of bodged repairs, tarmac pools black as a stormy sky, rocking our poor motorhome from left- [View Full Entry]

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Motorhome News from North America 22. 1st -12th September 2006 Nova Scotia - Cape Breton to The Bay of Fundy and ghostly ships Bright rose hips are gathering in the hedgerows and maple leaves are showing their first signs of change; those pale shades of yellow and chestnut brown, as we pass along the highway. Fall will be with us all too soon but we must mark time for a while to fulfil our plans to reach New England and the blaze of colour dreamed of for so long. Winnie was booked in for minor maintenance at Adventure Sports at Dartford, [View Full Entry]

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Motorhome News from North America 21. 20th - 31st August 2006 Back to the mainland ‘The past lies as much in realm of the imagination as does the future.’ Paul Zuker Another day, another week, another message bringing news of travellers in a far-off land. Ours is not intended to be so much a diary of events, but more an endeavour to capture our observations, our memories and our experiences of the past within the imagination, much as one would in a photograph. The future is the challenge in the hands of the planner, the dreamer - whichever way the stick [View Full Entry]

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Motorhome News from North America 20. 10th August - 20th August 2006 NewfoundLAND - as it is properly pronounced here. John Cabot had been at sea for five weeks, his brave crew expecting to fall off the edge of the earth at any moment, when the shout came from the crow’s nest, “Land ahoy!” Cabot rubbed his weary eyes in disbelief and raised his eyeglass. “O buena vista!” (Oh beautiful sight!) he cried. The name, Cape Bonavista, has stuck since that historic day in 1497. Cabot’s boat, the 19 metre Matthew, was built in [View Full Entry]

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Motorhome News from North America 19 29th July - 9th August 2006 In search of Puffins and Remote Corners of Newfoundland It seems ages since we left PEI; across the long bridge in bright morning sunlight, out through the narrow edge of New Brunswick and into Nova Scotia, stopping briefly in Oxford, to check out the ‘wild blueberry’ capital of Canada and sample just a small slice of their rather special pie at the visitor centre. Nova Scotia, ‘New Scotland’ by any other Latin name, carries the flag of St Andrews; a blue cross on a white background - with a [View Full Entry]

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Motorhome News from North America 18 21st - 28th July 2006 Prince Edward Island Alrighty, let’s get started. An eight-mile bridge separates Prince Edward Island from the New Brunswick mainland, sweeping like a giant snake across the wide Northumberland Strait. 140 miles long east to west, and up to 40miles across, PEI is home to 170,000 people who would doubtless never dream of living anywhere else on earth. The short summers are mild and sunny, the rolling fields so green and fertile and the ever present sea flows gently back and forth on shallow shores where the Micmac [View Full Entry]

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Motorhome News from North America 17 10th - 20th July 2006 ‘Bienvenue a board’ As we travel east we move against the time-line of North American history, heading for the lands first discovered by Jacques Cartier in 1534 and later, by Samuel de Champlain. This French influence becomes strikingly evident in Quebec City with its narrow cobbled streets, tall dormered houses built of stone, flamboyant churches and cobbled market squares. We didn’t get beyond Quebec City in 1988, but the lure of the Gaspe Peninsula and The Maritimes beyond was always there, a [View Full Entry]

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