Two Sore Backs

This is our 50th blog post. Maybe we will get to 100 🤷‍♂️. We enjoy the blogging process and the benefit of keeping a real time travel diary (well kinda real time-let’s be honest). And soon we’ll appreciate that we put it in writing and don’t have to rely solely on our less than perfect…

Gros Morne celebrates 50 years as a national park in 2023. We are eager to learn why this park earned UNESCO World Heritage status back in 1987. Fortunately the park offers many great interpretive experiences and we took advantage of seven. (Warning: this post is photo dense) Green Point remains a small fishing village. It…

After the ferry from Fogo we drove towards Twillingate and set up at Dildo Run Provincial Park. This was one of our favourite stops, with a nice dry site next to a quiet bay. Our first introduction to Twillingate was the local shed party. When Val booked the tickets, she was told there was no…

We are midway through the Newfoundland portion of our adventure and meet up with Deep Cove friends for morning coffee. Belinda and Andrew are on a two week driving holiday – working their way East from Deer Lake / Gros Morne NP to St John’s. We are west bound. Our crossover point is Bear Mountain…

When we were planning our trip last winter, we weren’t confident that we could get to Fogo Island because of sketchy EV charging in the area. But everyone we met said it was one of their highlights, and we’ve become more comfortable relying on level 2 chargers, so we charged up in Gander and off…

Our last day in Saint John’s. Cape Spear is the eastern most point in Canada. As we drove towards Cape Spear we had our fingers crossed that the fog would clear. It did. Walking around on the trails you see the remnants of the gun battery. You realize this was not a plumb posting –…

Life is grand. We awake up this morning to a beautiful blue sky. Today’s itinerary is stops at three to four places along the Baccalieu Trail on the Bay de Verde Peninsula – just west of St John’s. (There are about 10 noteworthy destinations but we are only human so we’ll pick and choose.) Brigus…

To explain – directly from their website: The Royal St. John’s Regatta is the oldest organized sporting event in North America. It has been a part of Newfoundland history for over 200 years. The first record of an organized event was in 1816, but rowing matches were common among ships crews in St. John’s Harbour…

Long trips – so that means getting a haircut while out on the road. Maybe you noticed from the photos that Pat was starting to look like an aged rock star with his longer hair. Truth is when we arrived in St John’s he couldn’t wait to get a haircut. He found a walk-in barber…

We made it to Saint John’s! Our arrival on to the Avalon Peninsula mirrored our arrival into Argentia. The surroundings got foggier the closer we got to Saint John’s. (It was dusk and we were vigilantly checking the side of the highway for moose.) The next day we had arranged to go out for lunch…