Author: neil

When we left Prince Edward Island two weeks ago, and decided on a route back through Nova Scotia, we also established a goal to be in Boston, MA for the second week of October. If everything fell into place, we would be able to ride the whole way (except for the ferry back to Bar…

Day 2 I messaged our VRBO hosts and explained in more detail about George and Penny staying with us: I mentioned what an incredible coincidence it was that we’d met them at all, and that if we’d have been able to foresee that such an impossible event was about to happen, we would have just…

How small is our world, really? It’s small enough that, using only the power generated by our hearts, lungs, and muscles, we have been able to cover the western side of its 4th-largest country, the entirety of a major peninsula of its 13th-largest country, and bounce around three different subdivisions of its 2nd-largest country. In…

Our camper’s intermittent heater (plus our body heat) kept the indoor temperature from dropping below 58℉ by morning, but it was 37℉ outside. Rett’s idea yesterday to go short and to a roof was proven right again: waking up to that temperature in our tent would have been survivable, but not especially pleasant. We were…

We were up late last night having a really stressful time sorting through a list of limited options for places to stay. In fact we didn’t even finally settle on a place until this morning. Our escape-from-Canada route now has us going west from Truro and along the northern coast of the western lobe of…