Day 4 - Newport, ME to Cavendish, PEI

Left Newport around 10:30 am - arrived at the Cavendish KOA around 8:30 pm (Atlantic time, so 7:30 EDT).

Miles driven - around 400

Total trip - around 1500!

It poured rain all Sunday night in Maine. Dad had to put on his rain jacket to go out and unplug all the stuff. He came back in and his pants were soaked. But when we looked at his camera & saw the pictures he took, we said well no wonder you're all wet - you walked all the way down to the lake to take pictures of the ducks!

We stopped at the Walmart in Palmyra, ME before getting on I-95 - there is no sales tax on food in Maine!

We rode on 95 for a little bit and then took Route 9 over to Calais, where we crossed the border. We waited about 30 minutes to get through customs - it's a very small border. Only a couple of lanes to drive through. We found out later that the Queen arrived in Halifax yesterday, so we wonder if that might have been why it took a little bit longer - they may have been checking a little more closely and there may have been more people driving through than normal. Of course, we're also used to crossing over at Buffalo/Niagara Falls where there are two bridges and tons of lanes. So who knows!

Then we had to get all the way across New Brunswick. We drove on the Trans-Canada Highway, which is the closest interstate equivalent up here.

Then we see a sign that says Train when Flashing.

A little bit later?

Ya'll, there are railroad tracks running ACROSS THE HIGHWAY! Can you imagine a train running across the middle of 40 and all the traffic stopping for it? Crazy! A little bit later we came up on a bunch of backed-up traffic and I was hoping it was because of a train so I could take a picture but it was just because of going to one-lane in a construction zone.

Anyway, we finally made it to the Confederation Bridge, which is 12.6 km long and terrifying. I do not like bridges. But they're very glad to have to it because you used to only be able to get over the Island by ferry. Then we drove all over a bunch of back roads and finally made it to Cavendish.

Dad walks into the store here at the KOA to register and the guy working the counter is on the phone with someone. Turns out it's dad's cousin Ann wanting to find out if we were there yet. I walked in the store and the guy's like "Welcome to PEI - everyone knows your business here!" So hopefully she will be able to come over and visit us this evening.

Gotta eat breakfast and then head to Green Gables now!

Also, just a maintenance note - with the weak internet connections, uploading pictures to Blogger takes forever. So I'm just going to put pictures on Facebook and recap the trip here. Thanks for following along! :)