Category: Canada

Our “vancation” comes to an end, so today is mostly a driving day, returning us to the Nova Scotian mainland from Cape Breton, and then returning to the Halifax area to return the U-Haul from the place where I picked it up. We have an AirBNB booked for three nights in Lower Sackville, a Halifax…

There were quite a few hiking trails in the National Park near our Cheticamp campground, and we didn’t have a long drive planned. But instead of exploring one of those paths in the morning, we instead drove to a trailhead Rett had found outside the park that led us to an old gypsum quarry, now…

A morning stop at a cute shop, for pastries and a Lavender Fog for Rett, which we drove out to eat at a beach where the red soil made the waves look like they were rolling in from an ocean of Coca-Cola. A stop to see my lighthouse, and my grocery store, at Neils Harbour.…

With the weather cleared up, it was time to head for the famed Cabot Trail. Which isn’t actually a trail, it’s a regular paved road that forms a loop, much of it within Cape Breton Highlands National Park. We’d be doing the route counter-clockwise. There was no rain in the morning, nor none overnight, so…

We were expecting morning rain, but not as early in the morning as the rain came. Luckily there was a dry window for breakfast and packing up the tent, and it certainly helped to have the van available. The open rear doors gave a sort-of-dry surface for staging, and Rett sat in her dry seat…