Two, actually, regarding my cross-Canada road trip.<\/p>\n
The first decision I actually made about two weeks ago, and just haven’t mentioned it online yet. \u00a0After driving around on gravel roads in Manitoba for a bit, I discovered that the Slaywagon doesn’t handle very well on gravel roads. \u00a0I think the suspension is set wrong. \u00a0I basically lose almost all control when on washboards.<\/p>\n
Given that Labrador’s only through road (just completed last year!) is all gravel and frequented by transport trucks, I decided I really didn’t want to spend three or four days driving under those conditions. \u00a0So I’ve scapped the idea of driving through Labrador. \u00a0Perhaps some other time.<\/p>\n
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The second decision was more difficult. \u00a0My sabbatical and vacation time is growing shorter, and going to Newfoundland would definitely make my return home late. \u00a0It’s a six-hour ferry ride each way to the island, and then a twelve-hour drive from the ferry terminal to St. John’s. \u00a0So if I wanted to spend a full day in St. John’s, which I do, it would basically cost me an entire week.<\/p>\n
At present I have just enough time to get home and do the things I want to do on the return trip. \u00a0I could book another week off work to make the Newfoundland trip, but I find I’m already looking forward greatly to the trip home and the things I wanted to do in Newfoundland are not sufficiently enticing to justify an extra week of travel.<\/p>\n
Halifax and PEI will be sufficiently east coast to complete the eastbound leg of my road trip.<\/p>\n
I am disappointed at not making it an “island to island” trip (Vancouver Island to Newfoundland) and at missing going to the easternmost tip of civilized Canada, but I think I can live with it.<\/p>\n
If I end up dwelling on it in later years, I can fly out to St. John’s, rent a car and do Newfoundland and Labrador in a combined trip. \u00a0This is what I’m telling myself, anyway. \u00a0Hopefully it will work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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