Blogs from New Brunswick, Canada, North America - page 5

Saturday, Sunday, Monday... three days of put-zing about. On Saturday the day began by visiting various yard sales. The best one was down a longish road, past a housing development to an old barn beside a heritage house designed by the same Maxwell of Van Horne Covenhoven fame. Saw things I already had, saw things I did not want, wanted things too big to buy and walked away with three magazines for thirty cents . LOL Importantly, once past the lure of yard sales, doing the laundry had to be addressed. The experience cost 3+3+3 $. Once that was done a visit to the beach was next on the list. The beach at the end of town, where the road leads to the Bay of Fundy, yielded very little treasure. I found only one tiny piece ... read more

Friday May 13, 2016 ...... Visiting Ministers Island just outside the town of St. Andrews-by-the-Sea In 1790 Minister Andrew bought the island and built a house which parishioners visited when the tide made walking to the island possible. Reverend Andrew is long gone but the tides continue to come and go. In 1891 Sir William van Horne bought a parcel of land and began building a summer place, Covenhoven, befitting a railroad mogul. VAN HORNE, Sir WILLIAM CORNELIUS, railway builder and official, capitalist, and artist; b. 3 Feb. 1843 near Chelsea (Frankfort), Ill., eldest child of Cornelius Covenhoven Van Horne, a lawyer and farmer, and Mary Minier Richards.called upon Edward Maxwell of Montreal to design the house. Maxwell was instrumental in designing the CPR hotels and stations that were used as destinations by the patrons of ... read more

St. Stephen, NB, Canada's famous chocolate town does not rate a separate geographic deliniation in the headings. It is a town across the river from Maine that houses the Ganong Chocolate Factory. The red brick building is very impressive. It has a drive thru under an array of windows that brings you to the back of the building. I walked thru and found a well coiffed grey haired woman sitting on a bench. "Are you from around here?," I asked, thinking that she too was visiting the chocolate factory. "I live here."she said. How could she stand the smell of chocolate brewing every day? 'OH no, the two top floors are apartments and the second floor is for lawyer's and accountant's offices," she was quick to inform me. Quelle surprise! Turns out the factory moved to ... read more

Sunday, May 8, 2016 Cabano to Grand Falls via Transcanada Highway 2 Again today there were the huge advertisements about moose...dare I say ...on the loose? Again I am suffering from false advertising ... so where are alll these moose already. Better see more than one this trip and am only coming home afterseeing at least three kinds of whales.Am working out doors and it is hard to read the screen. At least it has recovered ... the screen that is ... from the vigorous cleaning done with Huggies baby wipes yesterday. Have arrived in New BBrunswick and namely Grand Falls my first stop on THe Great Maritime Adventure (GMA). Before venturing to find the apparently only open campsite in this area I stopped at the Falls in time to see the ZipLiners do their thing. ... read more

St John was an amazing city. Our tour guide knew all the ins and outs of the city. They Bay of Fundy was interesting. Watching the salt water swirl with fresh water was crazy. Then this guy comes along and decides he is going to "ride the waves" in a kayak. Besides the water being in the low 40's and waves and swirls were crazy fast. This is also where I started taking lighthouse pictures.... read more