Where Is Joey Today?

Wait...Maine isn't a peninsula?

Dad was doing business in New Brunswick so he asked us if we wanted to head up to the land of Tim Horton's, toonies, and socialized medicine. We all flew into Manchester, NH and drove up through Maine to get there. Since most of our weather maps show the US as an island, I thought Maine was a peninsula, so you can imagine my surprise when we drove across the border. Fredericton is a nice city. We were very centrally located on the river off Queen St. Two blocks from a Tim Horton's which I ate at daily, 10 minutes from a coffee shop called "Crumbs", and literally across the street from a paint your own pottery place (Em's dream come true). There are some nice trails for jogging, walking, and biking in the area although I didn't use much of them because of the rainy weather.

Saturday and Sunday, we all headed out to Alma on the Bay of Fundy, home of the biggest tides in the world. We arrived exactly half way between low and high tide. You can see it literally coming in. Having already been on the road for a while we decided that it would be better to head to Prince Edward Island now and get a hotel there rather than go back to Fredericton and make the trip again. 

I, Em, PEI

So we hit our HI Express breakfast (that's where we get our money's worth ;) ) and headed out toward the Anne of Green Gables house. The grounds around the park are nicer than the actual exhibits. Afterwards we headed to Cavendish Beach where we met a few locals that were soon to be transplants to the Tampa area. The ride back was a long one. Em and I spent the next day locally, packed up and headed back into the states to fly back home.

--Joey

(7/31/08)