http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/New-Brunswick/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from North America , Canada , New Brunswick en-us Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:58:58 BST Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:58:58 BST This is just a trial first entry into my newly created travel blog I have said all my goodbye's and I am all packed ready to go. I leave on an over night flight to London today and will arrive at my destination of Carcassonne in southern france outside of Toulouse late tomorrow afternoon. I am so excited to get this adventure going just looking at my backpack makes me just want to jump up a http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/New-Brunswick/Fredericton/blog-296991.html It was a bittersweet departure from Richibucto Mlanie had to say see you later to Mame pis Pape. Even if it was hard we knew we had the trip of a lifetime right ahead of us We had a pretty darn full car and plugged in our first stop le Rocher Perc on our handy GPS. Not even an hour into the trip we already saw our first critter a nice big bull moose Nigel is always looking for them an http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/New-Brunswick/blog-290591.html Hi All A great time Nova Scotia and PEI and yes a few miles on the Cabot trail with the famous PEI red dirt. And oh the potatoes Got the shuttle across the Confederation bridge 12.9 kms long. Unfortunately is was raining and foggyFor the most part I've been following the Acadian trail up the coast of NB. It's like being in France rare to hear English in the campgrounds My pl http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/New-Brunswick/Miramichi/blog-285498.html Hopefully I'll be starting my Trans Can bicycle ride Monday. Change in the start though as the ferry from Bar Harbor isn't running until the 30th Insteadcycling up rt 1 along the Maine coast to St John New Brunswick. Should take 2 or 3 days. From St John I'll take the ferry to Digby Nova Scotia and then bike along the bay of Fundy and then to Pictou. Another ferry ride from Pictou to Prince http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/New-Brunswick/St-John/blog-277019.html I'll use this as a first entry since I want to try this out before my trip to South America. This entry will be pretty short but I'll upload a pile of pictures. In September 2007 Ann and I and the kids Jacqueline Jasmine Mikaela and our friend Wendy enjoyed a funfilled trip out east. We camped in some supercool spots Hole In the Wall NB being the best saw some fantastic sites Hopew http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/New-Brunswick/blog-257018.html De retour a la realite. Bien arrivee. 18h d avions et d aeroports. Avions en retard et courage du verbe courir pour attraper le prochain avion. Couchee a 3am heure du NB donc 8h heure de la Tunisie. Donc 26 hres de suite debout.J ai reve a la Tunisie je me suis reveillee en pensant a la tunisie je m ennuie de la tunisie. Mais trop contente de revoir papa et maman Et olivier aujourdhui mac http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/New-Brunswick/Moncton/blog-226158.html Hello from New Brunswick Canada There are many more leaves here than people. We had a grand time at Fundy Natl. Park. We visited the Hopewell Rocks yesterday at high tide. The sandy beach and rocks get completely covered when the tide comes in the Bay of Fundy. It can vary by 42' if conditions are right. We were one of four RVs in the campground which was on a lovely pond. I was sure that http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/New-Brunswick/blog-212110.html Hello from Canada We said a fond farewell to Bar Harbor Acadia but made a spontaneous stop at a local birdhouse artist. We could have purchased any house we wanted on the honor system. But Bob the artist and a native of the area wanted to talk. He could tell a story about each and every birdhouse where the materials had been salvaged from and his mother's collections. He was a single p http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/New-Brunswick/Fredericton/blog-211302.html Heres my home on the east coast of the Canadain Wilderness. I have sctually left there quite a while ago to go on an other adventure to the Southern Hemesphere to the Continent of Austalia. But for all of you know have gotten to know me over the years and heard me talk about the east coast here are some picture of hte beautiful area http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/New-Brunswick/blog-210631.html Vraiment excitee de partir Mon backpack est pret j'ai ajoute a la liste une 2e paire de jeans des flipflops et quelques aurtes petites choses... j'ai reserve notre auberge de jeunesse a Londres verifie comment m'y rendre de l'aeroport confirme l'heure de depart de l'avion... tout a l'air correctJ'ai aussi un roman avec moi. Apparemment que dans presques toutes les auberges de jeunesses on http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/New-Brunswick/Moncton/blog-202170.html On part d'Halifax vendredi prochain le 14 septembre vers 23h30 pour Londres. Et on part de Moncton vers 18h ou 19h moi Maman Papa et Walid pour se rendre a l'aeroport.J'ai rempli mon backpack 6 fois differemment jusqu'a ce qu'il ne soit pas trop lourd. J'ai le minimum mais en meme temps je ne vois pas trop quoi d'autre j'aurais besoin. Ce que j'ai avec moi en gros1 paire de jeans4 tops1 r http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/New-Brunswick/Moncton/blog-200895.html From Annie Hi again y'all Thank you for your comments Chris Sarah Linda and Verne and Grammy.... Your comments are always appreciated. Well in the meantime we've grieved Timber and recovered. What helped us most was a dream that Greg had several days ago. He met Timber in a sunny field. Timber communicated with Greg telepathically. Timber told Greg that he was sorry for being aggressive http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/New-Brunswick/Fredericton/blog-199127.html 20Aug07 St. Andrews Arrived at the border around noon in Calais. It took 45 minutes to cross the bridge back into Canada and another 20 minutes to pay my duties for all the stuff I brought back. Rode a short distance to St Andrews. I've been out of the country for 12 weeks http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/New-Brunswick/blog-196254.html From Annie Hi y'all. How are you we missed you. Don't know why the blogsite was down. Some hacker apparently. Well here we are again. It's good to be back. We've been busy with so many things. Unpacking the essentials some higgledypiggedly furniture especially our two rocking chairs. One from Grama in Duncan for when Joey was born and one from Jeanette and Steve God love them what a http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/New-Brunswick/Fredericton/blog-194597.html Well hello again kiddiesI have my office together now so we should be getting the last few blog entries out. This weekend shall be a watershed of blogging I am sureWe were out house hunting again today. Saw a few that we liked however after a bottle of wine we have decided to wait to make a decsionWell I have decided to open another bottle of wine and Annie has decided to go to bed. Joey... http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/New-Brunswick/Fredericton/blog-192919.html Think of the long trip home.Should we have stayed at home and thought of hereWhere should we be todayIs it right to be watching strangers in a playin this strangest of theatresWhat childishness is it that while therersquos a breath of lifeIn our bodies we are determined to rushto see the sun the other way around Questions of Travel Elizabeth BishopTherersquos a series of moments in t http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/New-Brunswick/Fundy-National-Park/blog-192487.html Well hello there campers I hope this has been an exciting adventure for you.We are working to get the Blog back up. The text should be up soon and the pictures to follow.Settling in here nicely thank you very much and this weekend we will throw some pictures up of houses that we are thinking of buying. Opinions appreciatedThat's all for now.Greg http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/New-Brunswick/Fredericton/blog-190736.html I went to a tractor pull. I ...went to a tractor pull.Life is rather different here. The pace is somewhat slower. We survived the furniture move in Annie slurping up spiders and Joey suffering with a manual lawn mower. We survived the tractor pull and the Fair and Midway. Only time will tell about the demolition derby. Rest assured that I have a new baseball cap and have begun to say ldquosome http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/New-Brunswick/Fredericton/blog-190735.html OMG Before I drive myself crazy with excitement let's begin at the beginning. I woke up to my Dad shaking me singing Good Morning Good Morning You've slept the whole night through Good Morning Good Morning to you Then we had a lovely breakfast of cereal bagels and waffles With orange juice all included in the complimentry Continental Breakfast that you always get when you travel http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/New-Brunswick/Fredericton/blog-186583.html If you're an arachnophobe or you love your cotton candy don't read this. If you're not sure whether you're an arachnophobe go ahead and read this if you have a nightmare about spiders tonight you may be a closet arachnophobe. Well here we are in our new rented home. So you know those old fashioned houses really old ones that no one has been living in for a while And you know how people http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/New-Brunswick/Fredericton/blog-186303.html GregWell here we are. It has taken a day for me to rest up enough to write this and as I sit here now I realize that this is may be my last Travel Blog post. How exciting.The town here is very nice. Just how I remembered it. Looking around and at the people as we explore I can't help but hear my grandmother's voice in my head God love dem. I have a feeling the longer I stay here the louder th http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/New-Brunswick/Fredericton/blog-185874.html The night we stayed at Le Hotel Aristrocrate was absolutey horrible Everything was so cramped the beds were bad and what really made me upset was it had a 4 star hotel rating from the Quebec rating company and 4 stars from the national hotel rating commitee The only thing that was good was the food. That was it. So if you ever find yourself going to Quebec City make sure that you don't stay http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/New-Brunswick/Fredericton/blog-185256.html Wow its been a busy week Thursday we went to a Maple Sugar cabin. We had a tour in French that we didnt understand and then we all had a big party in a huge log cabin. We ate a huge lumberjack style meal.. with everything including the water covered in maple syrup. We all danced to a polka band and then got to eat maple syrup popsicles that they had made on the snow... usually they use real s http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/New-Brunswick/Moncton/blog-181725.html Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be but like our neighbours we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them. Samuel Butler Since I last wrote Irsquove been to Charleston and Norfolk Nassau and Freeport in the Bahamas and traveled up to my new home port in New York City wersquore docked about five streets up from Times Square and http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/New-Brunswick/St-John/blog-180114.html 'Tis Farewell to CanadanbspNorth America raquonbspCanada raquonbspNew Brunswick raquonbspMoncton By Intrepid MumsieJuly 2nd 2007 This will be the last entry from Canada. I leave tonight on the bus for Montreal then over the border to Albany NY to see my other AmericanAussie cousin. Mel and I parted company in Toronto she to move on to Montreal and moi to come over here to Moncton http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/New-Brunswick/Moncton/blog-176414.html The Irish lads were due to arrive in Jonquiere on the afternoon of June 12th. The same day James and Amy two beloved French campers left the program to carry on with their english lives back home Ottawa and Montreal. With all this excitement in the air it was hard to concentrate during class...but finally after many hours of checking the time on my phone and going to the bathroom for the u http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/New-Brunswick/blog-175955.html Hello allCraig and I have decided the easiest way to keep people up to date next year is to post a travel blog and this one seems like a pretty good idea. We will save email for actual conversation and this will take the place of the form letter. So if you see an email from us chances are it will be more conversational than narrative. This is also an easy way for Nackawic Students to keep http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/New-Brunswick/Nackawic/blog-173944.html To FrederictonBrad and Treena From Charlottetown PEI to here in Fredericton has been our most consistent biking of the trip. We are consisitently biking 100km day after day and are now giving ourselves a break. Today is the first day we have had off since we started cycling again from Stephenville. From Charlottetown we rode 60km to the Confederation Bridge. Bikes are not allowed on the bridge http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/New-Brunswick/Fredericton/blog-163578.html Irsquove had trouble contacting the hostel in Fredericton to tell them that I wanted to cancel my booking. Irsquove tried contacting them all the way back since I was in New York but all I get is an answering machine with my cell phone number. Irsquom going to be spending the night at Kryssiersquos house after what will be a huge Thanksgiving meal I wait for a hotel shuttle outside of http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/New-Brunswick/Fredericton/blog-155047.html CANADAnbspNorth America raquonbspCanada raquonbspNew Brunswick By Dwight BrendaMay 3rd 2007 HELLO TO ALL IN GEORGIA WE ARE NOW IN CANADA. GOING THRU CUSTOMS WAS INTERESTING. WE HAD TO GET OUT OF THE MOTORHOME AND THEY WENT IN AND SEARCHED. TOOK US ABOUT AN HOUR TO GET THRU. THEY DIDN'T FIND ANYTHING THAT WE HAD TO GET RID OF. MADE US NERVOUS EVEN THOUGH WE DIDN'T THINK WE WOULD HAVE http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/New-Brunswick/blog-154950.html