DownUnder
Vamoosed (for a while)
Hey, Lynn, after New York did you (and your tour group) just turn around and drive back across the continental US? Which means you missed out on Maine... too bad, it's a unique state with a culture entirely its own.
The travel must have been exhausting for you. Hours on end on the road in a small van, then setting up tents, cooking dinner, a few hours of lazy socializing in the evenings, and then to bed. Repeat with breakfast in the morning, pack up everything, and off you went.
I traveled like that too in 1979. With only one friend, and in a Ford Maverick. We took five weeks to drive from New Mexico to Sydney, Nova Scotia - our intended goal for that journey was From Sydney (Australia) to Sydney (Canada) and we achieved it. This said, by the time we hit the Sydney at the end, we stopped the car under the town sign, I took a few slides, and we then got back in the Maverick and drove to New Brunswick, Sydney in NS not being greatly to our liking. A day's rest stop in the old French fortress of Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island was especially nostalgic for me, as I had a distant ancestor from France who had soldiered there in 1740s-1750s until the British came along and took it over.
That Summer Of '79 was mostly spent in my family and relatives' homes in New Brunswick. After two and a half enjoyable months of this, the road trip back to California was more rushed, partly due to finances but more so as we were both weary of being On The Road.
We saw Maine, New Hampshire, Quebec City, Montreal and Toronto, then north to Sudbury to see more of my family and eventually across the Great Lake, our plan being to drive cross the Prairies to Vancouver. An unusually cool and wet autumn did us in, and after causing along Lake Superior to Sault St Marie we (wisely I reckon) opted to go south and drive to New Mexico by way of the continental US, traveling on Route 66 as much as our haphazard itinerary let us. By then the Ford was showing signs of terminal old age and we were fearful it would break down and strand us in some isolated Canuck country town, where any repairs would have been prohibitively expensive. We were lucky and it easily survived the journey back to San Francisco, where we sold it for a little less than the $500 we'd paid for it.
Your fine rural images have resonated so positively with me. Many memories of similar things I saw ,even if unlike you, I didn't do enough photography of the countryside. By the time we set off on the return journey we were tired of all the driving we had done, and had one goal in mind, to get to New Mex for two weeks of R&R at my companion's relatives' home out of Silver City.
I look forward to more of your excellent work. Kudos to you for the effort you've put in so far in this thread. It's a true wonder to read and see!
The travel must have been exhausting for you. Hours on end on the road in a small van, then setting up tents, cooking dinner, a few hours of lazy socializing in the evenings, and then to bed. Repeat with breakfast in the morning, pack up everything, and off you went.
I traveled like that too in 1979. With only one friend, and in a Ford Maverick. We took five weeks to drive from New Mexico to Sydney, Nova Scotia - our intended goal for that journey was From Sydney (Australia) to Sydney (Canada) and we achieved it. This said, by the time we hit the Sydney at the end, we stopped the car under the town sign, I took a few slides, and we then got back in the Maverick and drove to New Brunswick, Sydney in NS not being greatly to our liking. A day's rest stop in the old French fortress of Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island was especially nostalgic for me, as I had a distant ancestor from France who had soldiered there in 1740s-1750s until the British came along and took it over.
That Summer Of '79 was mostly spent in my family and relatives' homes in New Brunswick. After two and a half enjoyable months of this, the road trip back to California was more rushed, partly due to finances but more so as we were both weary of being On The Road.
We saw Maine, New Hampshire, Quebec City, Montreal and Toronto, then north to Sudbury to see more of my family and eventually across the Great Lake, our plan being to drive cross the Prairies to Vancouver. An unusually cool and wet autumn did us in, and after causing along Lake Superior to Sault St Marie we (wisely I reckon) opted to go south and drive to New Mexico by way of the continental US, traveling on Route 66 as much as our haphazard itinerary let us. By then the Ford was showing signs of terminal old age and we were fearful it would break down and strand us in some isolated Canuck country town, where any repairs would have been prohibitively expensive. We were lucky and it easily survived the journey back to San Francisco, where we sold it for a little less than the $500 we'd paid for it.
Your fine rural images have resonated so positively with me. Many memories of similar things I saw ,even if unlike you, I didn't do enough photography of the countryside. By the time we set off on the return journey we were tired of all the driving we had done, and had one goal in mind, to get to New Mex for two weeks of R&R at my companion's relatives' home out of Silver City.
I look forward to more of your excellent work. Kudos to you for the effort you've put in so far in this thread. It's a true wonder to read and see!
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