Maritime Caravan",and it opened our eyes as to how enjoyable it was to
travel with an organized group of people who have something in common
with you.
The organzational meeting was held at a campground in Lancaster,NH.
We arrived at the campground and backed into the camp site assigned to
us. While we were walking around talking to our camping neighbors we
came upon our best friends who had signed up for this caravan to surprise us.
They sure did. They were last heard from , by us, out of state somewhere
around Ohio. This will make our caravan trip a lot more fun. Paul and Betty
are great people to travel with.(Betty was one of my classmates and June's
best friend. Paul was an "outsider",but a great guy to have for a friend).
We went over and registered and met a lot of people that will be traveling
with us. We are going to have about 22 units in the caravan.
That evening we were treated to a dinner put on for us by a local church.
It was good.The Wagon Masters out- lined the trip for us and took any
questions that we might have had.
The next day we traveled to a campground in Tremont,Maine. It is located just
before you cross the bridge to go onto Mount Desert Island (where Acadia
National Park is located).This was a free day because we were traveling, so
after we got all set on our site, the four of us drove over to the "Lobster Pound"
located at the bridge and had steamed lobsters while we enjoyed the coastal scenery.
A two pound steamed lobster
When the bus arrived in Bar Harbor, the driver parked the bus and gave us an hour
to enjoy ourselves. Most everyone found the ice cream bar in one of the stores.
A lot of us checked out the water front,which is always interesting in any town.
that has a waterfront. At the end of the hour everyone was back and ready to start
our trip to Acadia Nat'l Park. The bus made several stops for picture taking, from
Thunder Hole and other places of interest to the top of Cadillac Mountain (the
highest place on the Eastern Coast. The top of Cadillac Mountain is the first place
in the U.S. that you can see the sun rise in the morning.).
After we returned from our bus tour of Bar Harbor and Acadia National Park, we
had to get ready to travel tomorrow.It has been raining recently and the ground is
pretty soft and my RV is pretty heavy.Our RV weighs approximately 12,500 lbs
empty.I am hoping that I can pull out ok!
Well I wasn't able to move the RV out of the soft ground with the truck. Our
neighbor,who has a four wheel drive truck, had been waiting to see if I was
going to be able to pull the RV out! I unhooked and Jimmy backed in, hooked up
to the RV and out she came, slick as you please. Jimmy set the RV down in the road,
and I hooked back up to the RV again and off we went (with our friends),heading for
Canada.
Our first stop, we decided , was to take one of the suggested side trips to the
Franklin D.Roosevelt Summer Home on Campobello, Roosevelt's "beloved island"
at the Franklin D. Roosevelt International Park. Situated on Canadian ground, it
serves as a memorial to the American president and his family, and to the friendship
between the United States and Canada.
This was a side trip worth taking, not only for the beauty but for the history.
Take the Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial Bridge from Lubec,Maine over to
Campobello Island
After a couple of hours of taking in everything that we could at the Roosevelt's summer home,
we returned to the U.S. and our trip schedule.
Our destination today is to visit Halifax and the idyllic little fishing village of Peggy's Cove,
which is an artists retreat.
The first recorded name of the cove was Eastern Point Harbour
or Peggs Harbour in 1766. The village may have been named
after the wife of an early settler or taken its name from
St. Margaret's Bay as it marks the eastern beginning of the Bay
and Peggy is a nickname for Margaret. Two versions of the
popular legend claim that the name came from the sole survivor
of a shipwreck at Halibut Rock near the cove. Artist and resident
William deGarthe said she was a young woman while others
claim she was a little girl too young to remember her name and
the family who adopted her called her Peggy.[1] In both versions,
the young shipwreck survivor married a resident of the cove and
became known as "Peggy of the Cove" attracting visitors from
around the bay who eventually named the village, Peggy's Cove,
after her nickname.
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Downtown Halifax, 1920
munitions ship, the Mont Blanc, collided with a Belgian relief ship, the Imo.
The collision sparked a fire on the munitions ship which was filled with 2,300 tons
of wet and dry picric acid (used for making lyddite for artillery shells), 200 tons of
trinitrotoluene (TNT), 10 tons of gun cotton, with drums of Benzol (High Octane fuel)
stacked on her deck. On December 6, 1917, at 9:04:35 AM the munitions ship
exploded in what was the largest man-made explosion before the first testing of an
atomic bomb, and is still one of the largest non-nuclear man-made explosions.
Items from the exploding ship landed five kilometres away. The Halifax Explosion
decimated the city's north end, killing roughly 2,000 inhabitants, injuring 9,000,
and leaving tens of thousands homeless and without shelter
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