Blogs from Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, North America

no April Fool here .... beginning to write again after an almost three year hiatus because of covid. Not that nothing was happening in the past three years... it just did not happen by way of a wander to far flung places on the map. The ether is continuously scoured for adventurous tidbits ...zoom is a constant companion ... documentaries on tickle the grey cells ...and Poirot entertains as needles fill with knitting. A request from a friend in California has awakened the blogger in me. She and her partner are planning a trip to Norway. I had to go to my blog to jog the "little grey cells" ...OMG 2009!! That coastal trip is one I would like to do again...if there are no age restrictions ...https://www.hurtigruten.com/the-original-norwegian-coastal-express/?&infinity=ict2~net~gaw~ar~644550290579~kw~hurtigruten%20norway%20coastal%20cruise~mt~e~cmp~CA_COA_Tactical_Destination... read more

Massey to Deep River Michele found a site at the Unifor mill workers campground just outside Sudbury. As a former union member (CUPE 1930) and a strong believer in unions, I thought it was a good choice. The campground was mainly filled with RVs and trailers - we were the only occupants of a huge field designated for tenters. I had a few problems getting there, as I had to go on the Sudbury bypass on which cyclists were not allowed. It would have been nice if the authorities had placed the no cycling sign before the ramp to the bypass, rather than after. I could only shrug my shoulders and carry on. We drove into Sudbury so Michele could get her fix of Chapters. The city reminded me a bit of Kenora, built into and ... read more

Clouds call enticingly to be up, up and away. The upper strata must wait till September 11, 2017, when the UK Bucket List trip begins in London England. The garden by the Lake has been promised a summer of loving attention! ... this being a testy challenge what with below zero temperatures, swarms of blackflies, an eavestrough that an appointed handyman has failed to put right, and a staircase at a forty five degree angle that a nincompoop thought nothing about leaving for an increasingly older young-at-heart retiree. Temperatures are rising! Blackflies apparently pollinate blueberries .. get to it! and away from my face ... the bushes are heavy with white bell shaped blossoms. My sister has attached the eavestrough ... only ten centimeters is missing from the original vinyl trough ... so the job will ... read more

The destination Newfoundland, L'Anse aux Meadows will be the culmination of my Great Canadian Maritime Adventure. Seafood! only will be on the menu ...no cow - no pig - no chicken - no lamb - no llama ...the last two sought only for woolly possibilities. This pic from http://www.hagengrote.de To reach the tip of Newfoundland and the Viking Settlement at L'Anse aux Measdows, all the maritime provinces must be; traversed - bridged - plied - intersected - negotiated - perambulated - and wandered over. Labrador has been stricken from the schedule .... dams, mines and red lines for highways stretching thru 400km of wilderness have taken the sheen off that part of the adventure. Was not reaching the northern tip of the Labrador coast anyway with the... read more

Creating my Mandarin cheat notes and saying last minute goodbyes has caused me forget to do the laundry. Oh what the heck ... will go stickit in the machine ... no noisy zips or buttons so drying after 20:00 should be OK. The last week has been a scramble to get things organized, winterized and finished. All bins full of age old junk have been moved from two damp musty locations to a lovely new dry 12x8 wooden shed that my skilled in woodcraft sister has built. I was the go-for! She did a lovely job and we only had the help of two men with the roof. Moving the bins from the plastic shed which is now for sale, and from the woodshed which my sister said sh/could be torched took a whole day in ... read more