Ferry - Jenny

So much to update, so little time with free internet!

3G isn't always available here - sometimes it's the expensive Edge that's available, so the times we have to update are scarce.

Apparently, after being on this ferry from Nova Scotia to Newfoundland for 4 hours, I have finally realized that the internet here is free.

We originally intended to go on this ferry first thing in the morning instead of tonight, but delays caused the ferry we were supposed to board to be 3 hours behind. Instead of going with that option (which would make us miss the fjords altogether), we prayed real hard and ended up on an earlier ferry. Actually it was quite epic getting here.

Last night we camped by Twin Shores on PEI. Awesome. The beach has very fine red sand, so pretty , soft, and clean. But red!

We also visited a local supper house. All you can eat mussels, seafood chowder, bread, salad...and it comes with a 1lb lobster too. We got our money's worth ($29 per person) by devouring until they ran out of mussels. Literally. We had 12 pounds of mussels at one sitting.

We also went and got our own clams from the red clay shores, but we got too full with mussels to eat clams. We are also sort of getting sick of lobsters...some crab would be a nice change. Their scallops and salmon here are cheap too.

Food is obviously our highlight here - the accommodations are a bit less wonderful. Tonight we might very well have to sleep in a parking lot. We arrive on Newfoundland at 2am (5.5 hours ahead of Vancouver). We've camped the last 2 nights and the clothes I wear to sleep haven't been washed since 2 weeks ago. The car is funky.

We're piled so high in the car that you literally cannot see the floor in the passenger seats. We've got rolls of tissue, coolers, old clothes, chip bags, beverages, books, newspapers, bags of shoes, sleeping bags....we keep our tents to each side like giant round doors.

Newfoundland is my final destination for this particular trip - I will soon return home (amazingly, it will only take me 5 hours or so to fly, after traveling more than 7000 km in a car with 3 other people, spending up to 14 continuous hours driving on long empty stretches of highway - 5 hours is nothing). We drove 30 minutes to get a restaurant the other day and it seemed like the blink of an eye.

So far, the best places in Canada are in the Maritimes. Beautiful, different, serene...and delicious.