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 […]
The Southern Route
On our previous trips to Newfoundland, we have taken the northern route, across the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia. To mix it up a bit, this time we opted to take the southern route, through Chicago (ugh), and across Indiana, Ohio, New York, Massachusetts, and Maine–finally entering Nova Scotia […]
Road Trip Reading
Long hours in the car driving from Minnesota to the northern tip of Newfoundland means lots of time for reading. Here’s a list of the books that made the cut for this trip for each of the road-trippers (my sister, brother-in-law, mom, and me), with excerpted blurbs from Amazon. Don’t Tell the Newfoundlanders: The True […]
