Oct 18, 2019
The sun is shining and the winds are down, a perfect day to hit the road and do some exploring into New Brunswick. After a quick breakfast, we broke camp and prepared for our journey.
Before I went to bed last night, I stopped in at the Canadian Tire Store near us to see if I could buy tire chains and a small snow shovel. We have been tracking the weather and various places in Manitoba, and the other prairie-provinces had already received snow. I thought I would get a jump on that and buy tire chains. I am not planning to use them but they are a requirement to go over the mountain passes, so I thought I would buy a set in an area that wasn’t snowed on yet. No such luck, they do not sell tire chains in Halifax, and I later found out that they don’t sell them at all in New Brunswick! I did buy a small fold down shovel.
So off we went. We drove directly to Truro and then decided to take the secondary highways to Amherst. We had driven the cape road from Amherst to Parrsboro and back, some weeks ago,however this road would take us from Truro along the shores of the Bay of Fundy to Parrsboro and then north to Amherst. It was a great drive, no traffic, blueberry fields and lovely farms on one side and the Bay on Fundy on the other.
One highlight was that we stopped in at That Dutchman Cheese Farm. They produce authentic Dutch Gouda cheese and many other different types of cheeses. The place is also a children’s petting farm with goats, and ducks and other entertaining things. They were basically trimmed down now for the fall season but they still had the cheese store open. We sampled several types of cheeses, and bought a small wheel of Gouda and their famous Dragon Breath spreadable cheese.
Then we were off again. We stopped in Amherst for a bowl of soup. Debbie also had to buy some wool from Dianne Fitzpatrick’s Hooked Rug Studio. We then trucked on to St. George to visit our friends Jerry and Lynn. Jerry worked with me in Prince George. Jerry, Lynn and family became close friends. We arrived at their home around 6:30. They live on a 7 acre idyllic parcel of wooded land right on the banks of the Bay of Fundy. The channel behind their home is reportedly the second deepest in the world, second only to the Corinth in Greece. After plugging in the trailer and getting it set up, we sat and visited and talked until I could hardly keep my eyes open. Jerry and Lynn are also close friends of Ann, and wanted the full update on Ann and her condition. It was fun to reminisce and catch up on each other’s lives.
Quilting in a Kayak 