Monthly Archives: June 2011

Truro to PEI to Fredericton :: Rices’ Radical Sabbatical

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0savesSave Last Wednesday night we spent some time in Truro in a hotel, and then took a drive along the Bay of Fundy through Parrsboro, Advocate Harbour, Cape D’Or, and up to Amherst, Nova Scotia. Along the way, we saw a huge two-faced strawberry and just had to stop to take a photo of Tim […]

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North to Nova Scotia :: Rices’ Radical Sabbatical

Peggy's Cove, NS panorama
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0savesSave Candy and I decided to head north of the border to visit the Atlantic Provinces of Canada this past week. We drove on Tuesday north through the “downeast coast” of Maine to enter the Canadian border from Calais, Maine, at Saint Stephen, New Brunswick. We drove through towns with names like Saint John, Saint […]

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Heading Down the Coast :: Rices’ Radical Sabbatical

blue hill town landing panorama
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0savesSave On Friday afternoon, despite intermittent rain showers, we spent the afternoon driving down the coast in hopes of finding several more lighthouses and/or cute harbors to photograph. We were only able to see one (Pumpkin Island lighthouse), off the tip of Deer Isle (connected to the Maineland–pun intended–by a tall, narrow bridge), and Tim […]

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Memories of a year in the Purple Valley…

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0savesSave We have had a lot of free time recently to think through some things. It occurred to me as we drove through Maine when we arrived here two weeks ago that we had not been in this part of the country for nearly 10 years. New England is a very historic and incredible place; […]

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