The sun is finally shining! The sky is a piercing deep blue and we are in a beautiful place to take it all in. We've been driving around Cape Breton in Nova Scotia for a few days now and last night we enjoyed the scenery at Meat Cove. Meat Cove is a little town on the very northern tip of Cape Breton and though the facilities were questionable, the view was spectacular and well worth the out-of-the-way trip. We haven't been making campfires at night since we have been keeping up with our usual 9.30pm bedtime but last night we decided to splurge for the $3 bundle of chopped wood and stay up late. Now we wish we had been doing this all along! It's so great to stay up and talk around a fire and it definitely keeps you warm. We can still smell the campfire in our hair since we passed on the showers this morning. It has been quite cold but we decided that we would much rather have cold than have flies.
Surprisingly, there are a lot of American tourists up here. We met a couple of guys from Pittsburgh at the Meat Cove campground last night and aside from Nova Scotia license plates, we see mostly American ones.
Our odometer has clocked us at driving over 3500 kilometres (about 2200 miles) since we left Ottawa. We're at a free internet access place right now (courtesy of Bill and Melinda Gates! - weird) and must be on our way. We'll write again when we can.
Hope everyone is having a great summer! Only a little over a month to go before we head overseas.... stay tuned.
tothesea,
k&m