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Old Québec City
́We walked the old city three times during our short, two-day visit. That’s the best way to see this 400-year-old town with narrow, hilly streets reminiscent of Europe. We camped across the river in the town of Lévis and rode a 10-minute ferry across the St. Lawrence River to the waterfront. The most prominent feature…
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Prince Edward Island
Leaving Nova Scotia, we re-entered New Brunswick en route to Prince Edward Island via the Confederation Bridge. PEI looks quite different from Cape Breton. Instead of heavily forested mountains, there were endless rolling meadows which had been cultivated with various crops. PEI supplies about 25% of the potatoes consumed in Canada. The island is distinctly…
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Cape Breton, NS
“Nova Scotia” means “New Scotland”. Nowhere is this connection more evident than in Cape Breton. People still speak Gaelic. They have preserved music styles and traditions that have been lost in Scotland. People from Nova Scotia are reintroducing this music to Scotland. They do step dancing and they tell long stories that have preserved their…
Welcome to our travel blog
We are on the road again for an epic trip east from Seattle, as far south as Savannah and as far north as Nova Scotia.