Sunday August 26th
to Wednesday August 28th
We drove over a very mountainous road to our next stop,
Kinsmen Prince Edward Park Campground and RV Park in Corner Brook,
Newfoundland. I love saying “Newfoundland”
because it feels so exotic, far away, and adventurous.!
These few days, however, were not that exciting. Norman went to play golf while I tinkered
around the “house” (it feels like home after all this time); we did a little
shopping, and on Tuesday I went for a much needed massage. Wearing a heavy
backpack for hours and looking down at the trail has definitely had its
cervical repercussions. Unfortunately, it seems the fellow had not had very
good training, and it hardly helped at all.
It is obvious that I have become spoiled with the fellow I go to in
Clearwater!
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| Codroy Valley |
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| Lobsters are messy, but really good |
We stopped and finally bought a couple of lobsters and had
the supermarket steam them, then we steamed mussels ourselves for a great
dinner!
During the past few days, the weather has turned. We are having more rain than not, and
definitely feeling colder. We have
become rather “burnt out“ traveling. We
are finding that we are opting not to do a side road or hike that we would have
jumped at earlier in the game. Time to
go home, we think. We miss our families,
home and all our friends back in The Villages.
A large part of our decision is due to the fact that Norm’s
daughter, Jackie, is getting married next June in Vermont, so the opportunity
to come back is there. We could drive up
and continue on to Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, spend a month or more, and
see it all then, when we are “fresh“.
There is so much to do and see in those provinces that we had flown by
on the way to Newfoundland. We knew this
might be a possibility when we planned to stay so long, thoroughly enjoying
Newfoundland.
During these few rainy days we made our plans and
reservations for the next leg which was not an easy task. We found that the extremely few campgrounds
in and around the Boston area are pretty much booked up until the end of
September! What? Aren’t the kids in school? Don’t they have homework to do? Wow!
We wasted a day and a half dealing with our Bank when we
found our ATM card not working. We had
not used it until now, and since the last two campgrounds only accepted cash,
we had become dangerously short. After
many calls, we finally were told they cancelled our existing card in order to
“upgrade” us to another, and they sent us a new card at the end of June! Wasn’t that nice of them?
You would have thought they might have become concerned when
it wasn’t activated these last months, wouldn’t you? Well, after going back and forth many times
with the bank and Western Union, they finally called to say we were all set to
pick up our Canadian funds. Well, not only did we have to leave the campground,
we are only going to be here another couple of days. We are on the move, won’t
be near a Western Union anymore, so at this point it won’t do us much
good. We will have to be very judicious
on where we spend our cash. No “Cows”
ice cream for Norm, I guess (unless they take credit cards)
We finally left Corner Brook to stay at a campground close
to the ferry, for our morning trip across the water back to Nova Scotia. Wouldn’t you know it? Grand Codroy RV Tent Campground was probably
the nicest RV park we had been at.
Nice, flat sights, interesting trees and SPACE between sites!
It rained most of the night, and then we headed out promptly
at 8:45 to catch the ferry.
As we headed toward the ferry, the sun was starting to
shine. The scenery at this bottom corner of Newfoundland was much greener, and
more fertile to support the agriculture here, where we hadn’t seen it anywhere
else on the island. The mountains still
rose sharply, but were covered by grasses or trees. It was so pretty.
I had such mixed emotions!
I was ready to go home, yet not quite ready to leave Newfoundland. I truly love the people, and the rough beauty
of this place. I really have very simple
needs and those tiny homes seem so cozy …. All we would have to do is chop and
carry about 10 cord of wood…….. ah… never mind.
My life in Florida is just perfect!
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| They surely must be following us! |
As we were waiting in line for the ferry, we got a knock on our window. It was Kate and her daughter Julia! She was behind us in line! That woman is STILL following us! This is just so funny because it is not a small island, and they are able to stay at very different campgrounds due to the compact size of their trailer.
We drove onto the ferry and proceeded to spend the next six
hours gabbing away with Kate and her daughter, people we met last night, and
others. It was a great time on board. The waters were fairly calm and we had a nice
lunch sitting by a window.
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| Kate and Julia |
We arrived at our next campsite, after being delayed enroute
for an hour due to an accident, set up camp, had dinner and published a couple
of blog posts. Internet has been a bit
intermittent the last few days.
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| They can really pack them tightly inside these ferries |
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