BS: Road Trip-Can,ME, south

Subject: RE: BS: Road Trip-Can,ME, south
From: Sandy Mc Lean
Date: 20 Feb 11 - 12:26 PM

Hi Art,
   Canada doesn't end at Quebec and for fantastic scenery the Atlantic Provinces are only rivaled by the Rockies. My native Cape Breton Island is rated as one of the most beautiful on earth. Newfoundland is another island of fantastic beauty. Prince Edward Island is another beautiful Atlantic island and New Brunswick and mainland Nova Scotia both have spectacular rugged ocean coastlines. All of these areas also have a musical culture that is vibrant and alive.
In Ontario don't pass the Bruce Peninsula and in Quebec the Gaspe Peninsula is also majestic.

Subject: RE: BS: Road Trip-Can,ME, south
From: Charley Noble
Date: 20 Feb 11 - 10:37 AM

Art-

Sounds like quite an adventure. We'd certainly like to get together with you for some music when you arrive in Maine. We're in the Midcoast area.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Road Trip-Can,ME, south
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 19 Feb 11 - 08:54 PM

May to September sounds about right. :-)

Seriously, I recall a family summer trip (Dad taught college and had summers off) camping from NJ to Wash. state, returning through Canada... it was probably at least 8 weeks, but then that was the intent. Dad didn't like to drive more than about 6 hours of a day (this was when the speed limit was 55mph and we were pulling a tent trailer): he liked to be at the campground in good time for setting up before dinner. We spent several days possibly up to a week in each of Tetons/Yellowstone, Olympia (where my sister was in college), Victoria, Banff/Jasper, and Quetico Provicial Park.

Earlier in my history for maybe 7 weeks (while my sister was at 8-week summer camp), we did a NJ to Banff/Jasper and back; when my parents looked at the map afterwards they said, "why didn't we go all the way to the Pacific??"

Just realize that there's an awful lot of wheat from the Canadian Rockies to Ontario, and then there are an awful lot of spruce trees!

You'll have fewer black flies if the forest (and New England) part of the trip is later in the summer. (You know the song, right?)

Sounds like a wonderful trip for you and Jenn.

A handy tip: your AAA membership gets you CAA benefits, as well. (I found this out after locking myself out of my car in Toronto.)

~ Becky in Tucson

Subject: BS: Road Trip-Can,ME, south
From: artbrooks
Date: 19 Feb 11 - 08:04 PM

Beginning to plan a road trip this summer - north from Albuquerque, across Canada from Brooks to Montreal or Quebec City, into Maine, Boston area, DC, south and west to home. We'll mostly be on main highways to make the overall time more manageable. Southern Canada (can you say southern and Canada together?) and upper New England are terra incognita for us, so...
   Thoughts on points not to be missed?   
   Is there tent camping readily available along the Trans-Canada, or is it mostly RV parking?
   May-Sept. timeframe...preferable times or times to avoid?

Art