Ten more sleeps here in snowy Chester, than Trish and I will be "on the road again!"  We leave Boxing day and hope to hit Florida for New Year's Eve!  Four months of fun in the Sun, from Florida to Texas and points in between, we hope to blog most every day, depends on the free wi-fi and where we stay. Thanks to those that take enough interest to follow us, we love your imput!

Boy, you never know where life is going to take you, we went for a quiet, quiet week- end to Phinney Cove on the Bay of Fundy, Saturday morning my daughter says "Let's go into Digby and meet the people who own this cottage!"  An hour later we are at the Wharf Rat's Rally, 25,000 motorcycles and about 50,000 people added to the small town's population, it was great, had a few beers with guys that wore Veteran patches, no problem to start up a conversation, because most Cdn vets went through Cornwallis, the base is only a few miles from Digby.  Sat. night, Sunday & Monday were very peaceful on the Bay, great food, great friends, played cards, tossed sewer washers, collected stones from the beach, beach fires, enjoyed the fog and rain, and demolished a few 24's!  Phinney Cove is not far from Paradise, Nova Scotia!!

Since returning from the Mira, we have been busy doing mini-vacations, if  Paul gets a few days off driving taxi in Chester, we are off, like a whore's drawers on a Saturday night!  We throw our pillows in the camper, stock up on Hoctaler and Hienkins, and put the pedal to the metal!  Lunenburg, Lahave, Risser's beach and all around the circle. We especially enjoyed the Hank Snow week-end in Liverpool, his most famous song was "I'm Movin" On". That's us!!!!  Then we went to Chezzetcook, Musquodobit Harbour, Martinique Beach , Meagher's Grant and Dollar Lake, again , all around the Eastern Shore circle!  Labour Day week-end, we will be on the Bay of Fundy, a place called Phinny Cove, near Canada Creek, don't ya just love the name places!  It will be a perfect ending for the summer jaunts, my daughter has a cottage there, no running water, an outdoor shower, good old wood stove and plenty of blackberries to pick, read relaxation, relaxation, relaxation! Also no TV or cell phones!!!!

Five restful days on the Mira, in beautiful Cape Breton. Now getting ready for Canada Parks Day, we will sell even-split tickets, scoop ice cream, and maybe even participate in Open Mike,  Paul has been known to sing "Out On the Mira, if he gets enough ice-cream in him!  Kid, Kids,Kids and all kinds of activities, including a few soldiers over 200 years old from Louisburg.  A good time is always had by all!

Sitting on the stern watching the sunrise over the Rock,  half hour earlier than the ROC! We had to be at the ferry at 4:30 am, Tim's doesn't serve breakfast until 5am, go figure!  The story of our trip across the province, too early or too late for breakfast sandwich or panini, we arrived near most Tim's shortly after noon hour. We talked to a guy that is home from Fort McNewfy, he says his wife has to stay here and take care of her mother, but he brings her out to Alberta once in a while,he finds it breaks up the monogamy!
What a great two weeks on the island, In Gander we visited the "Silent Witness" monument, 256 American Servicemen perished at the end of the runway in a crash during take-off.  A related story, during  9/11 when a New York bound plane was forced down in Gander, a woman on board realized this was where her son had died in the Army crash.  Her host family took her to the monument where she got to read her son's name, she then called her husband,only to to find out he had been killed in the plane that crashed into the Pentagon!

When we said cleanest washrooms yet, that was just in Newfoundland, none are cleaner than those attended by the Gator Girls on the Mira. We will be there in 24 hours. Now, still resting in Port  au Basques, get the ferry at 6:30 am ,Monday.  Talk about co-incidence, the campers next to us from Northern Ontario ran into Newfoundlanders they had met in Cuba and Costa Rica years before, they were in small towns on the coast and there sat someone they recognized, twice!    Had we stayed at Wishing Well, we  would have celebrated Christmas in July, I'm sure they had a good time.  We devoured Bill's trout last night, delicious!!! Listening to CBC , they were interviewing a 93 year old fisherman,who had never married, he said he hooked a few in his day, but could never get them into the boat!

Co-incidence,co-incidence,co-incidence, when we first pulled in to Gander last week looking for Jacque, Craig& Cody, they found us in the liquor store. Talked to a couple from Idaho in a truck camper, they had just spent a few days at Graves Island and stayed in the Windjammer Motel, three doors from our house, they raved about breakfast at Julien's, then I'm sitting in the barber chair in Stephenville, I mentioned I was from Chester, the barber told me Ray Hynes from Chester basin was sitting in the same chair the day before, we headed  for Lourdes to find Ray, ended up in Picaidilly in the nicest campground we ever stayed in at anytime, on west bay,Port au Port Bay! We found Sand Dollars, Periwinkle shells and driftwood , all just beautiful, one piece of driftwood looked exactly like a cow moose, we seen two along the highway earlier in our trip! Never did revisit Barachois Pond, we stayed at the Wishing Well campground in Riverbrook,   we had water,sewer hook-up, power from dusk to midnight, hot showers in the cleanest washrooms yet all for ten bucks!