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By coppertop1204
September 14th 2008

Truro

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Bell Museum

A little about Baddeck. Both Cal and I loved this area. Baddeck is on a lake called Bras d'Or (pronounced roughly "bra-door") which is French for arm of gold. It is a large lake right in the center of CBI that is actually an arm of the Atlantic and so salty. There is lobster and commercial fishing. Baddeck is home to many recreational boaters and there were several marinas in the area. Many of the cottages are vacation homes for people living in Sydney and Halifax. It is a very pretty little village. We have considered retiring here although I'd like [View Full Entry]

By swissmaple
September 13th 2008

A Maritime Sampler

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Morning Mist
In Forillon National Park near Gaspé

Ten days with no place to call home. What better way to spend it than a road trip? We only had 10 days, but we had 10 big days, including the Gaspé peninsula, parts of New Brunswick, and Cape Breton and the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia. Highlights included some amazing camping spots, moose-signs and footprints (but no moose sightings), cute fishing villages, lighthouses, friendly people, crazy drivers and some very large piles of wood (must get cold in winter!) We picked up our rental car the morning of September 1st, and decided that renting cars is a great way [View Full Entry]

By coppertop1204
September 13th 2008

Cape Bretton is Beautiful!

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The first evidence of the coming fall

No continental breakfast for us. This motel didn't even have a coffee maker so being the caffein fiends that we are we were up, dressed and packed in record time. We went into downtown Inverness and found a local restaurant where we had breakfast...good old fashioned eggs with not a muffin or bagel in sight. We drove up and down the main street of this tiny town and then set off for the coast road to Cape Breton Highlands National Park. Our destination is Baddeck, home of Alexander Graham Bell. We will be driving the west coast which is the St. [View Full Entry]

By 1phydeau
September 1st 2008

Trip to Halifax

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Papa and the boys

We arrived in Halifax late Tuesday night. This time the weather has not cooperated and it has rained every day so we have not been able to do a lot of outside things. Thursday we took the boys to an indoor glow in the dark mini golf. On Saturday we went to a friend of Jeremy's farm and picked blueberries. On the way home we stopped at Murphy's in Truro for some fish. YUM! Rich preach on Sunday AM and we visited with friends at night. Today it is still raining and it doesn't look like it will let up until [View Full Entry]

By TeresaTraveler
August 29th 2008

Leave Behind

North America » Canada » Nova Scotia » Halifax

Beyond the trees
In the middle of the picture, past the clump of trees, that is where I live.

Less than a week to go and my mind turns to what I leave behind. I spent the summer in this quiet part of the world. I am lucky to live here, I know. Now the birds are gathering on the telephone wires, getting ready to fly south. People are energetic with the cooler air. Neighbours are chopping wood for winter. Schools will soon open. Everything around me begins the autumn dance yet I pack and clean house and empty my life as much as I can so I am free to travel. A turtle, that is what I am mimicking, [View Full Entry]

By diamond_ace
August 29th 2008

Waiting until 6pm...

North America » Canada » Nova Scotia » Cape Breton » Baddeck

Alice and I are in Baddeck right now waiting until 5 or so to head back onto the road towards our campgrounds. She says if you check in after 6pm, you don't have to pay for the day's fees so we figure we'll laze around Baddeck for the time being. One of the gift shops have the cutest mugs! They are 'Buddha' mugs that are easy to cradle. I like! [View Full Entry]

By TeresaTraveler
August 24th 2008

Fever

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Hen and Flowers
Everybody is enjoying the sunshine today.

Today is the day that I should have a reaction to the Yellow Fever needle I got ten days ago. Hmmmmm, do I feel different? or am I thinking myself into some body aches? Not sure... I wonder if some infected mosquito will bite me in Peru and die because I have this serum in my body? I hope so. ha ha ha I like this site; good tip about travel insurance. I get lost reading other blogs and looking at the photos. Pressure is off, to get that perfect shot at all the places that I want to see, [View Full Entry]

By TeresaTraveler
August 23rd 2008

First Entry

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Home
Where I eat in peace.

O.K. This looks like a great place for a travel journal. I fly out on the 4th of September, with a one way ticket to London. In less than two weeks, the adventure begins. [View Full Entry]

By Helen Rose
August 23rd 2008

2008 Vacation coming up

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Hi! In September, we will be hitting the road again - heading to Nova Scotia. The sense of anticipation is getting stronger as the date approaches with lots of adventures, great & small, to be shared. I'll be sending blogs once we start out on September 3. [View Full Entry]

By chinacanuck
August 11th 2008

The wet Northeast,,,

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Beach house on Cavendish Beach, PEI

It certainly has been a wet one for this part of the country. Driving north through New Brunswick and into Quebec after our stay in Halifax, it was hard to miss the lush green pastures and lawns. Woods and fields were bursting at the seams with new growth and freshly baled hay was rotting everywhere we looked. Everything was waterlogged, including the spirits of the people we ran into who have spent the last couple of weeks vacationing anywhere in Ontario or east. Some areas have had the wettest summer in over one hundred years. Yesterday, as we traveled through western [View Full Entry]

Crazy guy with a toque tries to go for a swim

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