Trippin’ Around North America

Fredericton to Cavendish, PEI

October 1

A beautiful misty morning greeted us on the bank of the St. John river just outside Fredericton. After our usual lazy morning we buzzed back up to Kings Landing, which is a village made into a 1800's settlement. Many of the buildings were moved from a few kilometers away when a dam flooded the area.





Most of the homes were still occupied when the flooding took place in the 1960's. It is about 20? acres. Very nicely done. It was again like a time warp to go into the various homes and shops and see how life was then. A bit like Barkerville in BC or Beamish in the UK. We spent a fair time in the old print shop. The proprietor is passionate about his little shop.




I think that I was really born about 150 years too late. I love the fantasy of living in that era. Of course I still have a fondness for my creature comforts that were unheard of then. Like a shower, warm bed, variety of food and my auto. As I said, it is a fantasy. That is why I believe we built the log cabin and enjoyed the farm so much in our younger days.

Anyhow we lingered a bit long at the site and finished there about 1.30. As we were having our soup in the trailer before heading to PEI a couple popped by, seeing our BC plate. They were older than us by about a decade. They now live in Fredericton but her family house is in the complex. It is the most beautiful stone house, moved stone by stone. Her parents and grandparents lived in the home. She reminisced a bit, remembering the cold and how they got dressed under the covers in the winter mornings. We have experienced that, but not all of our life like our ancestors did.

The roads here are excellent, good old federal money again. We still were able to make the 400 Ks to Cavendish PEI without risk, arriving just as it got dark. We crossed the Confederation Bridge, 15 miles across the Northumberland Strait joining NB and PEI, Fellette was on the phone to Craig as we did it.

The country roads in PEI are like a storybook setting, rolling hills, [nothing higher than 500 feet on the Island]. The RV camp is about 1/2 mile from Anne of Green Gables country. Fellette read every book by Lucy Maud Montgomery as a child. Some of this will likely not be open this time of the year but there will be enough to satisfy her.

A few interesting bits..
We parked in downtown Fredericton and connected to FREE Wi-Fi Internet.

The campsite in Cavendish has free Wi-Fi.

We have seen a few signs around for some Daigle businesses. My mother's father was born a Daigle, but during WW1 the family changed their name to Deagle. He was born in Nova Scotia, so I guess there are some faint family roots around the area.

posted by Doug and Fellette @ 5:52 PM