I’m not really a numbers person, but that’s mainly when it comes to doing something with them, such as adding, subtracting, multiplying, or (heaven forbid) dividing! But numbers can be interesting and can help to tell stories. So, here are a few numbers from our road trip to Newfoundland: We drove 5760.4 miles. We drove […]
Whales!
As I mentioned in a previous post, on our boat tour out of St. Anthony, NL, we also had the good fortune of coming upon a pod of whales. Don’t ask me what kind of whales; I don’t remember. Let’s just say they were big ones. We were able to stay put for 10 or […]
Newfoundland Hospitality
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 […]
