Monthly Archives: August 2009
Cajun Country…
Today Jan and I took a drive along the Acadian Coastal Highway.
I had not realized that this is the area that the French were driven out of in the late 1700’s after the British took over the area after the Treaty of Utrecht. This is where the Cajuns (Acadians) now in Louisiana came from.
It was really strange to see an auto repair shop called Thibodeaux’s, and a restaurant called Boudraux’s.
Almost like home.
Anyway, the drive took us along the Atlantic Coast. For the last park of the drive we could see Prince Edward Island out to sea. We saw a lot of quaint buildings and villages.
The weather was pretty overcast, and then later it started raining, so I didn’t fool with getting any pictures.
As we were heading home, we stopped by a place we had been told about called Hudson Oddities. As a child, the owner, Audrey Hudson, was always bringing home stuff she had found on the beach.
So much so, that her mother once told her, “For the love of god, child, could you please stop bringing garbage home from the beach”. Not really taking this to heart, she decide to make a business out of junk from the beach.
One of the beach things she collected was bits of broken glass, that over the years had been smoothed and polished by the wind, waves, and sand, rounding off the sharp edges until they looked like this.
blue_glass
javex_bottoms
seafoam_glass
and turns them into jewelry that looks like this.
pendants
Just beautiful.
After this stop, we headed home, arriving just as the rain started coming down harder.
Tomorrow we plan to make a 2 day trip over to Prince Edward Island, driving the truck over, and staying one night in a bed and breakfast.
Hopefully the rain will let up. We’ll see.
More tomorrow…
Canada, Oh, Canada!
Well, we had an uneventful trip from Houlton, ME 185 miles away to Moncton, NB (New Brunswick), Canada.
But first we had to have breakfast one last time at the Big Stop Diner. Jan’s hooked on their blueberry pancakes and I think they make a mean omelet.
After breakfast I gassed up the truck and we headed back to the rig to get ready to roll.
We headed out about 10:45 am, but first stopped back at the truck stop to top off the coach with diesel. And I’m glad we did.
Gas and Diesel are about $1.00 a gallon more here in Canada than in the US.
Hopefully we can get back to the US before we have to fill up with diesel again.
About 3 miles after we left the truck stop we pulled up to Canadian Customs. This is the fifth time we’ve gone thru Canadian Customs with no problems.
But I’m always worry because of the stories we’ve read about RV’ers going thru Customs and being selected for one of their random searches where you have to completely unload your coach so they can look at EVERYTHING!
But we were in and out in about 5 minutes. WHEW!!!
About 4 hours later we pulled into Camper’s City RV Park in Moncton and got set up. Actually it was 5 hours later, since when we entered Canada, we switched to Atlantic Standard Time, so we are now 2 hours ahead of Houston
Which means Prime Time TV runs from 9 pm to 12 Midnite. And even worse, when we travel to Newfoundland, they’re on Newfoundland Standard Time which is a HALF HOUR ahead of Atlantic Standard Time.
Go figure!
About 5 pm we headed out to one our favorite places to eat – Boston’s Pizza.
And strangely enough, there are no Boston’s Pizza in Boston, MA. We know, we checked.
So you would think, maybe it was started in Boston, Canada. But you would be wrong. There is no city named Boston in Canada.
Boston’s Pizza was started in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada in 1964. Who knew?
Anyway, we always get a large pizza so we have plenty of leftovers to bring home.
Tomorrow we’re going to take a drive along the coast and see the sights.
Then Sunday we’re going to drive over to Prince Edward Island for a couple of days.
More tomorrow…
