Blogs from Edmundston, New Brunswick, Canada, North America

Geo: 47.3737, -68.3251Today was moving day. We moved from PEI west making our way toward Huntsville, Ontario where we will visit for a few days with friends at their lake cottage. (It's really a 4 bedroom house, but they call it a cottage.) So, we left Charlottetown at 8:20 AM and 68 degrees. Before leaving the area, we decided to check out Rocky Point, which is a peninsula on the other side of Charlottetown Harbour. When we stopped to take photos, several cows made it clear that they wanted our attention, so we spent a little time visiting with them. Beamer thought they were interesting until he decided that barking was a more appropriate response to the fact that they were approaching our car. We then drove along the Gulf of St. Laurence on our way ... read more

As an aside, I absolutely HATE the fact that this blog forces me to select a continent, country, region, and city and then doesn't give me the choice of Clair, NB, which is where I've been for the last 5-6 days. The best I could do was Edmundston, NB. Sigh! We've had the extraordinary good luck to be here for the absolute best of the fall colors. We came east at this time of year in part to see this again, and we have certainly not been disappointed. We're hoping that as we move westward, we'll catch more of the peak, given that the season is probably earlier here than in Quebec and Ontario. A bit of comic relief from all this beauty are the cluster flies that have been plaguing us at the camp for ... read more

Four words: Most. Relaxing. Day. Yet. This morning started out strangely. There was nowhere to eat near the motel except at the motel restaurant, and that didn't open until 8. Not wanting to wait, we ate peanut butter, banana, and honey sandwiches, as well as pastrami and tomato sandwiches in our room. Strange combination, but its what we had. We still planned to stop on the road for something with eggs (we love eggs to start our day) about an hour in. We knew there was a Tim Horton's coming up, and though we don't like it nearly as much as McDonald's (especially Therese), it seemed like a good plan. Speaking of good plans, a nice guy at the motel last night commented that he saw us on our way, and thought we were really good, ... read more