Tag Archives: Hike
Ottawa and Algonquin Provincial Park, September 16th – 21st
A lot of cities in North America claim to be bike friendly. Ottawa has them all beat, hands down, no contest. From our campground twenty km from downtown, we took a beautiful bike trail all the way in as it meandered along the Ottawa River. It seemed like there was a park or greenway around […]
Quebec, Gaspé Peninsula – September 7th-9th
We had to go to the Gaspé Peninsula. It was a must and not because of the history, scenery, bakeries and parks. The urgency had started four days earlier. We were on our planned route to St John’s, Newfoundland when it made sense. Milissa had been saying for a few days that that big storm […]
Newfoundland, Twillingate August 30th-September 2nd
This satellite view says it, lots of hilly, craggy coastline dotted with houses and cute towns. We chose a commercial campground and we lucked out with Space #1, the only one with a view of the water. Later we saw that others just boondocked at a pull-off on some local back road next to the […]
Newfoundland – Gros Morne National Park- 8/25-8/29
As we ventured off the ferry at Port aux Basque and drove up the western sloped land, rocky and sparsely treed with occasional signs of habitation, Newfoundland struck us like Iceland. There were vast spaces of rocks and scrub and trees, homes sites out by themselves and designed for winter, and occasional combo gas/restaurant/stores. I […]
MT. Washington, NH – Cog Train Up, Hike Down!
Sometimes our roles intertwine. We are tourists. We are hikers. We are genetically wired to avoid pain. So the idea of taking a train up the tallest mountain in New Hampshire and hiking back down makes perfect sense. The Way Up The Mount Washington Cog Railway was built in 1869, making it the oldest of its […]