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 […]
Why Newfoundland?
It’s time for our annual road trip, and once again we are bound for Newfoundland. In case you’re wondering why we would head there for the third time in five years, check out this post on the website of the Newfoundland & Labrador Tourism Bureau: Famous Icebergs of Newfoundland & Labrador. As the ice in […]
Two Birthdays, 8 Years Apart
April 22 marks two important birthdays. The first is the 100th anniversary of the the Chinese Bible. On this day in 1919, the first edition of what has come to known as the Chinese Union Version (CUV) was received from the printer. In September of last year, I had the opportunity to edit an issue […]
