This is part of a series called National Park/Monument Slam 2018 So, it’s time for our annual National Park/Monument Slam, this time focusing on the park units we had missed in ID, WY, CO, and beyond. Our trip started out with a need to get a few things on the rig fixed. Consequently, we spent…
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After just returning home from the East Coast, we were saddened to learn of the death of a close relative and so we returned to New England. Following a meaningful sendoff, we decided to spend some time visiting some regional National Park units. Given the closeness to the 4th of July, we chose to visit…
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This is part of a series called Eastern Canada 2018 The last part of our Eastern Canada swing was in southern Nova Scotia, an area that has both impacted and been impacted by history, generally played out by the four groups who lived there over time — the indigenous Mi’kMaw people; the French; the Acadians…
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This is part of a series called Eastern Canada 2018 After a great time in PEI, it was time to move on to New Brunswick to experience the up to 50 foot tidal shifts in the Bay of Fundy. While he had arrived on PEI from Nova Scotia, we left PEI on the Confederation Bridge,…
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This is part of a series called Eastern Canada 2018 Prince Edward Island (PEI) is always a place I wanted to visit. My parents took me as far as New Brunswick once, but we never crossed the ferry from there (now a bridge). I also recently heard that mu grandmother had her honeymoon there. This…
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This is part of a series called Eastern Canada 2018 One of the things we wanted to see while in Nova Scotia was Louisbourg Fortress, a reconstructed historic site that serves as a living history museum, re-enacting life as it would have been for the French soldiers and townspeople in 1745. The drive over was…
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This is part of a series called Eastern Canada 2018 Well, we are off on another adventure! This time, we are continuing the Eastern Canada swing we did last year, focusing on Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and New Brunswick. We are starting in Halifax and doing somewhat of a figure 8, ending upwhere we…
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This is part of a series called Antactica Dec. 2017 – Jan. 2018 As we left Petermann Island, we realized we were done — heading home. As we slowly started heading out to the Drake Passage, we started to see more, larger cruise ships who didn’t make it into some of the places that a…
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