tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35200449575380749842024-02-07T00:50:07.956-05:00Labrador-Newfoundland Drive 2010Dick Dresellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03690302737553412638noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3520044957538074984.post-13153824648930118462000-05-30T17:00:00.016-04:002023-03-28T12:00:40.081-04:00Background<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" face=""trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #660000;"><span class="Apple-style-span">This is an account of a drive starting June 11, 2010 from our Maine home to Gaspe to Labrador to Newfoundland to Nova Scotia and back home, in our 2006 Prius. We are Dick and Margery Dreselly, very senior citizens who retired in 1987 to Brunswick, Maine. In 2021 we're in a "senior complex" in South Portland, Maine. To show what we <b><i>looked</i></b> like, here's a 2004 photo, near Cape Horn <b>--> xx </b> </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span">The names "Newfoundland" and "Labrador" are confusing. Their area was called just "Newfoundland" when it was a separate country, a British dominion with its own postage stamps, until after it became a Canadian province in 1949, with the voters opting for "confederation" with Canada narrowly exceeding those preferring to remain a British dominion or even to become a USA state. In 2001 the provincial name was changed to "Newfoundland and Labrador". The Labrador part is mainland north of the St. Lawrence River, bigger (the size of Arizona) and wilder (population 42,000 with no town population above 10,000) and colder (sub-Arctic). The Newfoundland part is an island that splits the mouth of the St. Lawrence River, is the size of Virginia, has 480,000 people with 100,000 of them in St. John's, and has an average climate between those of Maine and Labrador.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #660000; font-size: medium;">Labrador was a challenging adventure for us. On this trip we drove most of its roads, which is a </span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 0, 0); color: #660000; font-size: large;">1060-mile </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">arc extending north from Baie-Comeau on the St. Lawrence river through Quebec to Labrador City and Goose Bay and back south to the St. Lawrence at Red Bay, Quebec. The 693 miles of mostly paved road from Baie-</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 0, 0); color: #660000; font-size: large;">Comeau to Goose Bay has been there for several decades. The 356 mile road from Goose Bay to Red Bay was only a snowmobile trail until a road between those towns</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> was begun in 1986 and officially completed in December 2009, without pavement. However, on our trip 30 miles of that segment were still under construction. We're glad we went, but probably won't go to Labrador</span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">again, just Newfoundland.</span></div><div class="post-body entry-content"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Most of our drive north of the St. Lawrence was sub-Arctic, with very short trees, offshore ice and icebergs and occasional polar bears to July. For us that also meant very few people, cars, paved roads, facilities, and hours of darkness. </span></div><div class="post-body entry-content"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">In May the newest part of the road, from Goose Bay to Cartwright, was snowy and muddy, impassable to cars. It became barely drivable by cars in late May. </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> The arc is so new that there wasn't much about it on the Internet, but now see these: <a href="http://www.mensjournal.com/travel/mountain-wilderness/the-loneliest-road-in-the-world-20140919">click </a></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">. From near Red Bay we crossed on a 1 1/2 hour ferry to the island of Newfoundland, drove the length of that island twice, and arrived home on July 6.</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Newfoundland, its wonderful people and scenery, subtly changed our lives. We were lured there in 1970 by Farley Mowat's book "The Boat Who Wouldn't Float".</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">We returned in 1999 and 2010.</span></span></span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;"> </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #20124d;">If JFK could say, "Ich bin eine Berliner", I can say, "I am Canadian". We are loyal Americans who also love Canada, and have travelled far in that uncrowded second biggest country in the world. We admire its </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AWudU4K0aIWLZGhtNjdxY2RfNTRoanpkMmtmag&hl=en">government and economy (click)</a></span><span style="color: #20124d;">. We know Canada is not perfect, and a few Canadians don't like Americans, but we've liked nearly all the Canadians we've met or read about.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">Of those many Canadian B&Bs at which we've stayed, all but one were operated by couples we would have liked as neighbors. By a slight margin, the friendliest Canadians and most interesting Canadian experiences we've found so far have been in far eastern Canada. Another overwhelming impression of Canada is "unspoiled". That doesn't mean "rural", considering its ultramodern cities, or "backward", considering their greater longevity due to a widely supported medical system,.<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #20124d; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; line-height: normal;"><span face=""arial black" , sans-serif"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span> <span class="Apple-style-span" face=""verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="border-collapse: separate; color: #20124d; line-height: 28px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"> We are impressed that although some Canadians are rich, there seem to be hardly any who are obsce<span style="font-family: inherit;">nely rich or very poor.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: #20124d; font-family: inherit; line-height: 28px;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="line-height: 20px;"><span><span style="color: #20124d;">We've travelled twice by Toyota and once by Cessna from Maine to Alaska, of course via Canada. We've driven to all 13 provinces and territories of Canada except </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nunavut"><span style="color: #e06666;">Nunavut (click)</span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span> </span></span><span style="color: #20124d;">, the new mostly-aboriginal nearly-roadless Arctic territory. We've driven to some of Canada's extreme corners: Victoria BC, Inuvik on the Arctic Ocean, St. John's Newfoundland, and by boat to the northernmost </span><span style="color: #20124d;"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuit" style="color: #20124d;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Inuit (click)</span></a><span style="color: #20124d;"> community in Labrador. We've travelled many times by car and Cessna from home to adjacent New Brunswick (NB) and Nova Scotia. Twice we've flown the Cessna to Toronto. Twice we've sailed a sloop to St. John NB and through the Reversing Falls of the St. John River to the placid labyrinth upstream.</span></span><br /><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #20124d; line-height: 20px;">When we drove and ferried to Newfoundland in 1999 its economy had been devastated by the near end of cod fishing. Furnished homes were sold for a pittance ($3,500 or so) by jobless fishermen who migrated to the oil fields of Alberta. In 2010 we found our assumptions overturned. Newfoundland had adjusted well. We asked about the economy in several coastal villages, which all had neatly maintained homes and shiny cars. Their men worked in western Canada mines, especially in Fort McMurray, Alberta, earning high wages in the oil sands boom. They came home and remitted money regularly, like Mexicans working in the USA. In some of those little towns real estate prices had quintupled in 11 years, we were told.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" face=""verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">Each spring and early summer the "Labrador current" brings a parade of icebergs from Greenland to near the shores of Labrador and Newfoundland. Sometimes polar bears ride the icebergs until they are near enough to swim to land. These were early June 2010 warnings from Cartwright, on our route:</span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span"><b></b></span></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="post-body entry-content"><span class="Apple-style-span" face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 16px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" face=""verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; line-height: 20px;">"</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The new road from Cartwright to Goose Bay is open but there remain about 50 kms to be properly finished. It is advised that cars stay off this section yet, as it is quite rough and mud can be deep.</span></b></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">".</span></b></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content"><span class="Apple-style-span" face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 16px;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "courier" , sans-serif" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><i><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">"A polar bear</span></span></i><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3333ff; font-size: medium; font-style: italic;"> warning has been issued for the coast of Labrador, the first this year".</span><span class="Apple-style-span" face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><i> </i> </span></span></span></span></span></div></blockquote><div class="post-body entry-content"><span class="Apple-style-span" face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 16px;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "courier" , sans-serif" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">A recent bear sighting in the coastal town of Cartwright had prompted the advisory from the </span></span></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content"><span class="Apple-style-span" face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 16px;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "courier" , sans-serif" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Newfoundland and Labrador Department of Natural Resources.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span></span><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "courier" , sans-serif" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span></span><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "courier" , sans-serif" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">No polar bear advisories have been issued for the island of Newfoundland so far this year. In the past, they have been issued after bears</span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> came to the island on pack ice from the north.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span></span><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "courier" , sans-serif" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The bears get on the pack ice to hunt seals</span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span></span><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "courier" , sans-serif" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Wildlife officials offered this advice to anyone who may<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span"> e</span></span></span></span></span><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "courier" , sans-serif" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">ncount</span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">e</span></span></span><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "courier" , sans-serif" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">r a polar bear:</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="post-body entry-content"><span class="Apple-style-span" face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 16px;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "courier" , sans-serif" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><i><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Remain calm.</span></span></i></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content"><span class="Apple-style-span" face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 16px;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "courier" , sans-serif" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><i><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Give the bear space.</span></span></i></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content"><span class="Apple-style-span" face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "courier" , sans-serif" style="color: #3333ff; font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Back away, get out of the situation, but never run.</span></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content"><span class="Apple-style-span" face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "courier" , sans-serif" style="color: #3333ff; font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-style: normal;"><i><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">If you must speak, do so calmly and firmly.</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">"</span></span></span></span></div></blockquote><div class="post-body entry-content"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">We expected our drive around Labrador would be exciting and unpredictable, after a pleasant uneventful one week approach.. We left home on June 10, but a piece of chicken lodged in Marge's esophagus, so we diverted to the Brunswick hospital emergency room. Three hours later she was OK.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">June 11, 12: We set out again, tended family graves in Princeton, Maine, drove many miles of beautiful lupine-lined back roads, and checked into the excellent Amsterdam motel in Fredericton, New Brunswick.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">We had an appointment to set up a Visa based on our Canadian bank account, but snags in that process took 3 visits, so it was too late to go on, and we booked another night at the Amsterdam. We enjoyed a short scenic drive down the St. John River to visit friends in the village of Gagetown, which we had visited many times by car over 30 years and twice by auxiliary sloop from Maine.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">June 13: We drove the 70 mph Trans-Canada north beside the St. John River, close by the big windmill farm atop Maine's Mars Hill. Traffic density seemed less than a tenth of that on the average USA Interstate. At St. Leonard we turned northeast to bilingual Campbelltown NB and on to Quebec's Gaspe Peninsula. The Gaspe road was an endless series of little towns with quirky architecture, seaside scenery, and never an opportunity to pass the slowest car. Of the 3 B&B's we had thought we might use there, two were not open for the summer season and one had steep stairs not OK for Marge. So we continued, arriving at dusk at Perce, famed for its famous "pierced" offshore rock. We were so anxious to settle down after 380 miles that we paid twice our budget for an elegant hotel and restaurant frequented by Europeans, whose euro makes those prices seem moderate.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">We reached the ferry at Matane 15 minutes before loading, without a reservation, for the 2 1/2 hour crossing of the St. Lawrence River to Baie Comeau. This photo is looking back at Matane.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">We had a scare after we left the ferry. To celebrate our 42nd wedding anniversary and save time, we applied for a room at the best hotel in town. But the city on the edge of northern wilderness is booming. Trucks on the ferry were laden with new sewer pipe, there was so much road construction in the city that maps and GPS were useless, and the hotels were apparently fully booked with industrial workers and crews fighting forest fires that are polluting Maine air. Besides the useless maps and GPS, I'd forgotten most of my French, and here was Quebec French, so we spent 2 hours until dark driving in circles, getting directions that would be unintelligible even in English, and facing a night of sleeping in the car. Finally we got a bed at a Comfort Inn, and an expensive supper at a bar.</span></div>
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<i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">"An adventure is an inconvenience, rightly considered".</span></span></b></i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">June 15: We faced</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> a rated 8 hour drive to Labrador City. That's 215</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> miles of "winding narrow paved ro</span>ad" and 155</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"> miles of "gravel, straight, beware construction". There would be 3 stretches with no structures or gasoline for well over 100 miles. We booked a room in Labrador City, where English is the primary language. </span></span>Click on: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"> </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.tlhwy.com/central/hwy389guide.html">Road to Labrador City</a></span></b><br />
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Here we went from tourist mode to adventure mode. The sign means "211 kilometers (133 miles) to the next gasoline.<br />
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There were tremendous contrasts in what turned out to be the 372 mile drive from Baie Comeau to Labrador City. The first 3 hours were on a narrow sinuous paved road through beautiful forest with countless roadside ponds and a few big lakes.<br />
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Near the end of our day's journey we crossed 9 times the railroad from Sept Iles (Seven Islands, Quebec) to Labrador City, built to extract iron ore from one of world's richest deposits. Just 50 years before I had worked as a junior engineer on the original construction. It was even wilder country then, with wolves howling at night. Wolves are still there, as is one of the world's largest caribou herds and many moose.<br />
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Labrador City with adjacent Wabush is a drab company town with one traffic light and fewer than ten thousand residents. The company is IOC (Iron Ore of Canada), a subsidiary of Rio Tinto. There is a remarkable uniformity of residences. All are tidy trailers or duplexes in uniform arrangements, except for a half dozen apparent executive homes at the highest point, by the water tower. We had supper at the "fanciest" restaurant/hotel in town, Chinese owned, $16.50 plus 13% tax for a great buffet. At the entrance was a room for patrons to park their muddy boots.<br />
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** A motorcyclist warned us that 50 kilometers ("clicks", or 31 miles) of the new dirt road through the hills from Goose Bay to Cartwright, a key reason for this trip, is impossible for us, with miles of big rocks only navigable by 4WD SUVs and big trucks, very slowly. He said his friend wrecked his bike there this week, and another friend pitched off his Harley and broke a leg. Our breakfast waitress agreed. However, we figured if we drove very slowly we should be able to get through that stretch intact in 3 hours. Then a young woman told us she drove a pickup through that in the reverse direction, and found it quite bad but driveable at 25 kph ("men aren't always patient", she said).<br />
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The road is beautifully and expensively engineered, with deep fills and rock cuts, excellent guard rails and culverts, good width and banking, but all gravel for 340 miles, 444 kilometers. They intended to pave 50 kilometers at each end each year, but have fallen behind, so about 2018 one should be able to drive on pavement all the way from Labrador City to Goose Bay. No traffic police are needed or present, for if one drives too fast it can be very inconvenient or expensive to get a mechanic or tow truck from 200 miles away. I got up to 60 mph once, but usually went about 40 mph. The Prius has a convenient button to show kph instead of mph.<br />
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June 18: Near the beginning of this blog I wrote that Canadians are friendly, but the most friendly are the furthest east. This morning as we entered the restaurant for breakfast, there was only one other customer there, a young woman about 30. No words were exchanged. During breakfast our waitress said to us, "Your breakfast is all paid for, by the woman who just left. She heard you are visitors". I'm still choked up by her gesture. I imagine she would say, "Pass it on".<br />
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* We could show up at the boat and hope for a cancelled spot, but its departure had been delayed a week by sea ice conditions at Cartwright. <b>Later the boat was delayed another week, to July. </b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;">June 19: By chance we met here a semi-retired Vermont couple we had met at Labrador City. They invited us to eat supper with them at the local air base, famous from World War II. We found the cafeteria crowded with the crew and passengers of a Delta jet from Ireland that had lost 1 of its 2 engines over the Atlantic. They were awaiting a plane that was coming to retrieve them. There was such a hubbub that we were told supper was free, to be paid by Delta. The couple, Phil and Cormetia, paid for all 4 of us anyway. Their paid reservation on the boat out Sunday was no good, because the boat wasn't going, so they would have to try muddling through the infamous new road, as we would. They lost a tire to a rock day before, so we hoped they wouldn't have to limp a long distance on the spare "toy tire" again. </span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It </span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">t</span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">o</span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">ok 3 hours for us to drive through that infamous 50 kilometer stretch, at speeds between 1/10 mph and 15 mph. Some big rocks we had to crawl over were a test of skill and undercarriage durability. I had to move one aside by hand. When we got home to a garage in Maine I found the survival of the Prius oil pan was due not to my skill, but to its sensible location above the frame. Not </span></b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>surprisingly, we met hardly any cars, just occasional construction trucks.</b></span><br />
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The drive from Cartwright to Mary Harbor was relatively uneventful. Since the road was built through the wilderness 10 years ago<i><b> mos</b></i>t of the gravel surface has become excellent. I drove at about 50 mph, though 60 mph was easy. We saw some moose, and 5 more bears including 2 cubs. We silently snuck up on the bear in the picture using the Prius electric motor. When he suddenly saw us he jumped and ran in the woods.<br />
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We were so lucky that June 21, the summer solstice, is Aboriginal Day, and an expert on the peoples who occupied this land centuries ago (and to a lesser extent still do) had come from Goose Bay to talk to visitors. Mr. Winston White's mother was an Inuit ("Eskimo"), so he is fluent in the languages of the Inuit and the Innu ("Indians") and definitely English. He also played the guitar like Johnny Cash, singing a couple of Labrador folk songs, and one he had composed. He tried to teach his small audience the fundamentals of the Inuit language, but left me only with "Na Ku Meek" ("Thank you"), which he richly deserved. </div>
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This beautiful TV video perfectly captures the charm and beauty of the <i><b>island</b></i> of Newfoundland, where our narrative continues: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpShYvI84JI&feature=youtu.be">click here</a></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span">* He is the northenmost resident of Newfoundland.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span">* Like most fishermen, he has had narrow escapes in the cold sea.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span">* One of his two sons died that way.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span">* He is content, happy, on a small income. Here in Canada he doesn't have to worry about medical bills and care.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span">* He has a low opinion of Joey Smallwood, the iconic politician who some think was the George Washington of Newfoundland.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span">* As a youth he worked for, and became a close friend of, (click:) </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helge_Ingstad"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><b>Helge and Anne Ingstad</b></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span">, the Norwegian archeologists who replaced legend with fact by excavating the Viking presence about 1000 AD at nearby L'Anse aux Meadows. Mr. Colbourne said he and other locals had always thought the earthen mounds were made by Indians or Eskimos. Even if you haven't "clicked" before on things in this blog, click on this one: it's fascinating: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><b><a href="http://www.virtual-tours-newfoundland.ca/LanseauxMeadows/Meadows.html">Vikings</a></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span">On our trip to Newfoundland in 1999 the shock from the end of cod fishing, the basis of the economy for centuries, was evident. We saw two seaside houses we could have bought for under $4,000 complete with furniture. Seaside, a community of 183 souls and no stores or fishing boats at the end of a peninsula, showed us how the economy and way of life have changed. Now wives told us most husbands worked in the prosperous western provinces, coming home every few weeks and sending money home regularly. They work in prospecting and extraction of metals, diamonds and oil. We got the same story in other towns. It's like Mexicans sending home money from their work in the USA, but this is on a higher income level, and between provinces not between countries.</span><br />
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Among lupines and other wildflowers common to Maine a month earlier were plants native to the Arctic, New England mountains above timberline, and present but uncommon in Maine. Carnivorous <span class="Apple-style-span">pitcher plants are widespread here. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Notice the red flowers and the open traps where bugs are caught.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span">We were at the Comfort Inn by the St. John's airport the nights of June 30 and July 1, to do a week's laundry, rest, sightsee, and visit Marty..... Forty years earlier, at the Cape Spear lighthouse, the easternmost in the Americas, Marge and I and Marge's son Phil met Marty Heffernan. He, "the lighthouse keeper's son", showed us his license plate collection, covering most of the walls of an adjacent garage. The plates were from his "friends", whom he urged us to join. So we sent him a MARTY vanity plate from Maine, and over the years, plates from several of the countries we have visited, which has led to secondary adventures. Like the Mexican junkyard, another story... Marty and Phil were each 14 then. Now they are 54. Every October he sends us a scrawled Christmas card, about his country music collection, his manual jobs, his cars and girlfriends. Once we suggested the annual exchanges end, but he was devastated, so they continue. The lighthouse keeper died, so Marty lives alone in his childhood home. He gave us a warm welcome, as in 1999, but maybe we'll not see him again.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">July 5: After little sleep and a breakfast on board, we disembarked and headed west on the Trans-Canada highway. We hoped to visit </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farley_Mowat"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Farley </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Mowat (click)</span></b></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> at his summer home near River Bourgeois, discovered that wasn't the right route, and diverted via the $5 Little Narrows ferry and the Grand Narrows bridge to River Bourgeois. The </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">shunpiking</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> was serendipitous, with splendid scenery, as in these photographs. The multi-span bridge once carried trains.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Although famous, Mr. Mowat sometimes welcomes contact with his readers/admirers. He lived for years in Newfoundland, decried the slaughter of seals and whales by its fishermen but admired their strength and friendliness, as do we. When a local phoned Mr. Mowat for us, his wife Claire said he was painting their house, so no visitors.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Later I kicked myself for days that I hadn't offered to paint, which might have been accepted, because it was a hot day and he like me was an octogenarian.... Fretting over the road not taken is pointless, but... "With rue my heart is laden, for many a rose-lipt maiden.." and "Why did I turn left in front of that truck?".</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We stayed that night in a small suite at the Residence Inn in Moncton, one of the most elegant accommodations we've ever used. It and supper and breakfast were "free" because of a voucher we'd "earned".</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">CANADA: We had a great time and learned a lot. We'd like to return to all parts of Canada that we've visited, most of all friendly beautiful Newfoundland, least of all Labrador (because of its roads). In 1999 Canada was inexpensive for us, but now it seems about 15% more expensive than the USA. We paid $3.50 to $4.50 equivalent per gallon for gasoline. 13% tax is applied to stamps and newspapers and almost everything but food. Room tax is no longer refunded to tourists. We were surprised how modern Moncton and St. John's have become, compared to our memories of 1999.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">CAR: We drove 5500 miles. Looking at the underside of our Prius on the lift afterwards, I was surprised that the mechanic and I could see no rock dings or damage. I hadn't realized the oil pan and other vital parts are well protected above the frame. We had the car aligned, but it needed very little adjustment. Due to my careful avoidance of rocks flying from trucks on gravel roads, there were no windshield dings. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">BOOKS: We have many, old and new, most not in the local libraries, which we can lend to local friends who want to read more about places we went, and the people and history there</span></div>
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<b><a href="http://dreselly.blogspot.com/">Dreselly.blogspot.com</a><span style="color: red;"> part is about Canada </span></b><br />
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