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My Long-ish Weekend in Newfoundland
First of all, I don’t recommend you hop on over to Newfoundland for a weekend-however long a weekend it may be. Too bad I am one of those ‘Do what I say,not what I do’ people. Flights are expensive, the ferry is excruciatingly long and a bit pricey and Newfoundland alone is huge- including Labrador, you are looking at 405,212 square km. So…not conducive to a quick jaunt. We had five days, four nights, and some Air Miles to burn-but even so, we limited our explorations to the Avalon Peninsula and parts of the Eastern Region. Day 1. Downtown St.John’s Arrived in St.John’s about 10:30 am. Picked up the rental.…
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Chasing My Bucket List to Newfoundland
Icebergs? Will I or won’t I? Anyone who knows me knows I am a Bucket List freak. So far, I have taken drum lessons, bought a kayak (two of them, second hand- I love them)completed a sprint triathlon (coming in last, I may add), zipped along on an extremely thin looking line high above the trees and jumped in a icy lake on Jan 1st. There is no rhyme or reason to what ends up on my Bucket List. And it doesn’t look as if it will be finished anytime soon, because new ideas still seem to find themselves on it. Last week, I got to check icebergs off the…
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How to Pack a Carry-on for 5 Days Travel to Newfoundland
We leave on the 19th for five days in Newfoundland I have been thinking hard about what to pack. The main reason we are going especially in the Newfie season of ‘Sprinter” is to see an iceberg-checking one more thing off my Bucket List. I hope. I have a little prejudice against paying for checked luggage-especially when we are going for only five days. We are each taking a duffel bag type thingy plus a backpack. We decided against filling those five days to the brim-leaving time for unexpected adventure is always fun, but we did book an iceberg boat tour out of St.John’s,and plan on using our free National…