Our 2018 Canadian Maritimes Trip

Today we got an early start and drove all the way to central Massachusetts. We stopped at Freeport, ME for about 2 hours to go to the LL Bean outlet store, then back on the road. We arrived at our campground about 5:00pm. We have electricity, water and sewer here, so were able to replenish our expendables, do laundry, get showers and dump tanks. Today we're planning to drive to someplace TBD north of Scranton where we'll spend the night, returning home on Saturday.

We had a decision to make; whether to do another epic day of driving to see the East side of the island or pull up stakes and start heading home. We decided to do the latter, giving ourselves 7 days to leisurely make our way through the 1500 miles of adventures waiting to be found on the way back. We're returning via the Confederation Bridge to New Brunswick, the worlds longest bridge over waters that freeze, Pictures coming......

Today we drove the Western coastal loop. Our route today is the left part of the island. It's about a 150 mile loop One of several lighthouses we passed on the way These are everywhere up here PEI gets almost 90% of ots power from wind You can't appreciate the immensity until you get up close like this. Houses right on the sea coast are very common This is an example of what I call "Lancaster County by the sea". The farms go right to the sea edge. Wind power information canter and restaurant. We ate here. This is in the Wind Center's backyard Nice view for our late lunch A hub from a wind turbine A blade from a wind turbine

We're camped for the next couple daya in Prince Edward Island National Park in Cavendish on the Northern end of the island. We're very near the sea. Beautiful park with densely wooded pull-through site w/water, electric & sewer hookups, all for $22 Canadian per nite. Only downside is there's no satellite reception here. Today we drove around the Eastern coastal area. Not all of it, because there's too much to drive in one day. We toured the Green Gables house, which is right next door to our park. Note that Anne of Green Gables was a work of fiction, so there is no real house. This was a place the author spent a lot of time in as a child and it inspired the books. We stopped for a late lunch at a nice local restaurant where Barb got Lobster & Penne while I had fish & chips. Both were very ample and very good. We stopped to see a couple lighthouses along the way.