Jim,

Well, with only 10 days, obviously I've got to do my research to find the high points to hit! It'll be the second two weeks in July, so we'll miss the Stan Rogers Festival.

I'll be travelling from the south in a small RV with my aged parents and my 7 year old. The folks have always wanted to go to Prince Edward Island, and this is my attempt to help fulfill that wish, while getting some musical benefits myself. I'm into trad. song and dance, and developed my interests due to my parents' influence. (Sadly, Dad's become quite deaf, but he manages to enjoy some of it if there's not lots of background noise.)

I expect that PEI and Cape Breton Island will be our main focus, though maybe we'll take the ferry to or from Bar Harbor so we can hit Kejimkujik Park. I don't have a good sense of the scale of the area to tell what's do-able. I expect we'd want to be camping in two or three different places over the 10 days and doing day trips.

Aside from the music, we've an interest in history and culture in general, and quiet natural settings (maybe renting a canoe somewhere inland). My son's seriously into trains, if there's any to be had, and he'll enjoy exploring the coast and the woods, since that's alien for him as a desert-raised kid. He's also recently encountered Ann of Green Gables, so we'll have to check that out.

~ Becky