Category: Travel

October 29, 2004

Up today and off to Maritime Museum with Reed, Chelsea and the boys.

The museum has a number of great examples of different types of boats – including a “goose” boat; a self-bailing Sable Island Rescue Boat; and many models. There was also good information on the Nova Scotia wrecks, including the Atlantic (greatest loss of life prior to the Titanic) and a full display and historic film presentation on the Titanic. They also had the Acadia docked at the museum that you could walk through. The Acadia has the distinction of serving in both world wars in addition its regular duties as a seismology ship. They also had a comprehensive presentation on the Halifax explosion during the First World War.

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October 22, 2004 –

We were up early and on the road to Nova Scotia. Stopped at the tourist information booth just across the border – to get some information and have a stretch. Right close by was a little market – that had fresh breads etc. Picked a few minor supplies and the shop keeper even put together a selection of different apples for free when he heard about Keelan’s enjoyment of the wild apples.

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October 15, 2004

We managed to find a tire store – and through broken English and French determined that they could do the work at 8:00 AM on Saturday (ugh). Oh well, it will be an early start for tomorrow as well.

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October 8, 2004 –

We travelled into Kingston today. The town was originally named King’s Town by the British Loyalists who fled the American Revolution. Deb went to a chiropractor to get her back adjusted as she had pulled it the other day and has not been able to get it back into place. After the treatment, Deb said it still wasn’t perfect – but much better than it had been.

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October 1, 2004 –

Drove into Sudbury this morning and with some fancy navigating on Deb’s part found our way to Dynamic Earth (the Big Nickel). They were doing a lot of road construction, and the place was almost impossible to get to. The boys seemed to love their experience underground and seeing what mining was like. Being the only kids on the tour – they were able to help pack holes with dynamite for the explosion, and operate the remote controls on the automated mining equipment. The amount of re-vitalization of the vegetation that they have done around Sudbury is surprising (they have planted about 4 million trees).   Sure looked different than the “moonscape” that Pat remembered as a kid. However, the big smoke stacks still stand out against the skyline.

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September 24, 2004 –

Today was tour Winnipeg day. Started off by going to the Royal Canadian Mint for a tour this morning. (They are very uptight – don’t allow you to take samples or pictures). The Winnipeg Mint is responsible for producing all of the Canadian coins in circulation, plus coins from over 60 other countries. They can produce 15,000,000 coins per day.

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Spirit Ridge Wanderers – The 2004 / 2005 “Oddessy”

September 17, 2004 –

Well, despite our best intentions, we did not get the start that we wanted to our trip. Hopefully it is not foretelling of things to come. From the time that Pat got home, we got the water shut off in the cabin, and got the motor home and toad loaded – it was too late to go far. However we thought it was important to get away from home at least.

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