One of the things we love about Newfoundland is the friendliness of the people there. Just about everyone you meet — from the shopkeepers to random people in the parking lot — wants to chat. And since the towns tend to be small, everyone knows everyone. When I called the tour company to book a […]
Iceberg Alley
As I wrote in the first post about this Newfoundland trip, late spring/early summer is “iceberg season” off the northern coast of the island. Most of them have broken off from the glaciers of northwestern Greenland. From there, they float down through the Davis Strait, and into the Labrador Sea as the winter ice pack […]
The Painted Stones of Newfoundland
As we have been exploring the area in and around St. Anthony, NL this week, we have noticed painted stones in various places — on picnic tables, under chairs, along hiking trails. My curiosity finally got the better of me today and I asked someone in a local shop “what’s up with the painted rocks?” […]
A Viking Village
Until the 1960s it had long been thought that Norsemen (Vikings) had been the first Europeans to reach the shores of North America. This belief stemmed from the descriptions recorded in ancient Norse sagas. But proof was illusive. That changed when 2 archeologists, searching a site on the very tip of the Northern Peninsula of […]
Where the Road Ends
We finally reached our destination on Sunday, the little town of St. Anthony, on the northeast coast of the western peninsula on the island of Newfoundland. It is pretty much where the road ends; were we able to keep driving northeast we would hit Greenland. In fact, we are now closer to Greenland than we […]
Chinese in Maine
Our travels on Thursday (and early Friday) took us across the beautiful state of Maine, which reminded me of the Arrowhead region of northern Minnesota, with its forests and rocky shorelines. I’m always interested in connections between places I am traveling to/through and China. Shortly before departing on this trip I ran across an interesting […]
