L’anse aux Meadows

We’re getting ready to pack up the bikes and pull out of St. John’s. What an experience… 
Meanwhile, here are some shots from six days ago — it seems like a lifetime ago — of L’anse aux Meadows. This is the oldest confirmed site of European settlement in North America. The Norse were here about 500 [...]

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Photos from Gros Morne to St. Barbe

It seems like more than five days ago, but here are some pictures from our ride from Port au Basques to the Lomond campground in Gros Morne. Though it started out cloudy, this is the beginning of our three days of nice weather.
This is just a photo dump from our first two days on Newfoundland

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What a ride.

The 116 miles from Clarenville to St. John’s was grueling. The rain. The wind. The kick-up of road grunge from tractor trailers nearly blinding you. God awful stuff.
If there’s any scenery to see in that 116 miles stretch — any breathtaking panoramas or awe-inspiring vistas — I couldn’t tell you. I could barely see in [...]

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Greetings from Newfoundland

It’s not that the internet and Wi-Fi are unknown in Newfoundland, it’s just that they’re pretty much unknown in the nether regions of the Northern Peninsula, where we’ve been traveling for the past several days.
We spent four nights between Gros Morne National Park and L’ans aux Meadows. If Peter Jackson had come from Newfoundland, he [...]

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Newfoundland!

We left New Glasgow, Nova Scotia with a full tank of gas, blue skies and balmy temps. Balmy for Nova Scotia anyway. That all started to change about twenty minutes into the ride and it went down hill from there. By the time we rolled into Baddeck, Nova Scotia it was raining, cold, and so [...]

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Today’s forecast: Rain. Tomorrow…

The extended forecast is looking like the Gods are just messing with us. It’s rain, or chance of rain, for the foreseeable future. Argh. 
We had originally planned to leave two weeks earlier than we are, but Bonnie “strongly suggested” we move the date out a couple of weeks to better accommodate the kids’ summer schedule. This would [...]

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Photos

We left Merrimack, New Hampshire on Thursday morning and drove straight through to St. Stephen’s, New Brunswick. The weather was a drag, but not miserable. That is, we didn’t get stuck in any downpours. Instead, we were in and out of drizzle for most of the first day. 
Things brightened up a little once we got [...]

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Made it into Nova Scotia

Just a quick post… 
We got under way about 10:00AM on Thursday (yesterday) and made it into St. Stephen’s, New Brunswick. Had a surprisingly tasty supper at a little Chinese restaurant buffet… a small joint with maybe eight tables. From there we set up camp about 7 miles up the road.
After a good night’s sleep we [...]

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Newfoundland Weather

You know, you’d think I would have thought of this earlier, but it just recently dawned on me that I should probably find out what the general August climate is in Newfoundland. Turns out 70ºF (21ºC) is considered a heat wave. 
Looking at the forecast for St. John’s:
 
Yup. The daily HIGH temps are in the low-to-mid [...]

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Still haven’t finished packing.

Less then 24 hours to go and I haven’t packed. The laundry’s done, but so far not a stitch of clothing is packed, let alone loaded on the bike.
Well, this isn’t entirely true. I have one of the side cases packed with the tent, blanket, a couple of jackets and a pair of sneakers. The [...]

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