Author: neil

A good sleep with a slightly-slower than normal morning, due to our totally-worth-it extra imbibing with our hosts last night. They came out to see us on our way, and I remain amazed at the open hearts and homes people hold out for these two strange strangers. Route 2 had a good combination of good…

Rett’s original plan for Prince Edward Island was to arrive near Labor Day (a holiday that exists on the same day in both Canada and the U.S.!), and then spend a couple weeks seeing the sights absent the majority of summer tourists. Luckily she learned ahead of time that the tourist season here ends not…

Thanks to our return to Cavendish (known as Avonlea in its fictionalized version), we were able to tick off some of the final bits of Anne of Green Gables tourism. Rett had picked up some postcards a few days ago, and now was ready to mail them, so where better to do that but the…

Mosquitos were still waiting to make any post-tent-exit activity unbearable, so we took the recommendation of the cycling couple we met last night and hightailed it out of camp for a first-in-a-while restaurant-breakfast, at the Seashell Cafe. After the quick downhill ride out of camp, inside the cute motel-attached cafe we find that very cycling…

We’re riding again this morning, but still on an Anne of Green Gables mission. We’d head west, still along the north shore of Prince Edward Island, catching sites along the way, and then return tomorrow, stopping for more. Today’s main event was the Anne of Green Gables Museum. This is another relatives’ house that L.M.…