Daily Archives: February 6, 2011
Newfoundland Redux . . .
After having our morning coffee, I started sorting thru some cabinets inside the rig, consolidating some things and throwing out a lot of other things. I ended up with about 6 bags of trash for the dumpster.
Then I headed outside to start going thru some of the bins. In some cases I was looking for some tools that I needed for my computer job starting tomorrow. But I did get a lot things moved around and stored away.
Later we met Bob & Maria for dinner at T-Bone Tom’s about 6pm. I had another round of Armadillo Eggs, really, really good.
Since it’s a short post today, I thought I’d repost some of our visit to Newfoundland in September 2009.
More tomorrow. . .
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Thought for the Day:
Two wrongs don’t make a right, but they do make it interesting.
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“Ferry cross the Mers… uh…North Atlantic…”
Posted on September 4, 2009
Today was our last day in Louisbourg for a while.
Tonight at 11:00 pm we catch the car ferry for the 15 hour, 325 mile trip to Argentia, Newfoundland.
However, unlike some RV’ers, we’re not taking our coach over. Jan said “No way I’m putting my home on a ferry. Those things can sink. I’ve seen it on the news.”
So we’re leaving the rig in Louisbourg and taking the truck on the ferry, and we’ll stay at B&B/motels for the 3-4 days we’re in Newfoundland.
We went out for breakfast about 10 am and ended up sitting next to another RVing couple from VA. Gene and Chris had just spent two months in Newfoundland and gave us a lot of good tips. Hopefully we’ll meet up again sometime. Nice people!
About 3 pm we left for North Sydney, Nova Scotia, where the ferry dock is.
We wanted to drive around the area, do some last minute shopping, get gas, and then eat supper before we boarded.
Although we didn’t sail until 11 pm, we had to be checked in and in line by 9:30, or we would lose our reservations. And, after taking care of all our chores, we ended up getting in line about 7:30, along with a lot of other people who were already there.
They board all the commercial stuff first and then the cars. We finally started moving onboard about 10 pm
After entering the ship on Deck 1, we drove up a ramp and parked on Deck 3.
By about 10:30 pm we were up on the passenger decks with our stuff. You have to bring everything with you that you’ll need for the trip from your vehicle because you’re not allowed to go back to it during the voyage.
We had reserved two seats in the sleeping area that reclined and had footrests. It turns out to have been a mistake because they were very uncomfortable. We would have been better off to have just stayed in the regular seating area. Those seats also reclined, but didn’t have footrests. But they were much more comfortable.
After grabbing a late night muffin snack in the cafeteria, we settled in for the night.
More road trip tomorrow…
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