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Danno’s words (as dictated to Cindy): Hi! It’s me, Danno, Cindy and Hank’s favorite cat! Now that we’re back home in Southern California after this 15-week trip across the U.S., up the Atlantic coast, and through several eastern Canadian provinces, let me tell you what it was really like! What’s …
Missouri:When we headed east at the end of April, we passed through southern Missouri to visit Laura Ingalls Wilder’s home in Mansfield. On our way west toward home, we came through a little further north, St. Louis to be exact. St. Louis has been a significant transportation and shipping hub …
It’s never fun to drive the RV in a big city, but we stuck to the outskirts of Chicago, arriving at our campground in the midst of a massive heat wave. Since we have explored much of Chicago on previous trips, this trip to the Windy City was mainly for …
We’re back in the U.S., crossing the border in New York, then whipping through a small corner of Pennsylvania before landing in Northeast Ohio at Punderson State Park, a lovely little campground next to a lake, where we had fabulous neighbors (Cathy and Dave) and enjoyed fireflies and being in …
Our last week in Canada began by crossing to the north side of the St. Lawrence River and then crossing from Quebec into Ontario, our last Canadian province of this trip. We were a little sad to leave Quebec, having gotten used to hearing and seeing French everywhere. But we …
When friends and family heard that we were visiting Eastern Canada, every single person said, “Be sure to visit Québec City. It’s the best!” And they were right. Québec City is one of the oldest European settlements in North America, and the second oldest in Canada. Explorer Samuel de Champlain …
We’ve been gone 9 weeks and have traveled over 6000 miles in the RV. We just began Phase III of our trip (visiting Quebec and Ontario). And this phase has started off with a bang! We left New Brunswick and traveled around multiple little peninsulas and bays to get to …
In the morning, I was slated to drive up a 17% grade in an RV in Quebec. I slept nervously that night overthinking the whole thing. What if the RV could not pull up the hill on its own? The steepest hill I ever climbed previously was about 8%. What …
When last we visited New Brunswick (three weeks ago), we concentrated on the coast of the Bay of Fundy (see “Fundy Fun Days” post). After visiting Prince Edward Island, we now had the chance to explore the northeastern coast of New Brunswick, which is heavily French-speaking/Acadian. Back in the 1600s, …
Ever since I watched the PBS series of Anne of Green Gables, I’ve wanted to go to Prince Edward Island. Sometimes the reality doesn’t match up to the anticipation, but in this case, the reality was every bit as good as what we had hoped for. We traveled across the …