Louisiana Road Trip

The adventure starts again, to see our full route, visit Bruce and Louise's Trip

Bozeman, Montana and the Rees Family

At the end of August 2018, we got an opportunity to go back to Montana and meet up with some friends from Australia. The Rees family was touring some of the western states with 21 Australian cattle ranchers. Sharing knowledge and building friendships, farmer to farmer. The tour ended in Bozeman and we joined them for a week of hanging out. What a great town, highly recommend it. It is alive, active, great food and beautiful views. Big Sky country.

I love big dinosaurs, this is at the Museum of the Rockies

Lewis and Clark maybe came through here, but they have a motel named after them. 

Hanging with Grahame Rees, what a great visit with him and his family.

We went to a grizzly reserve. They give them a good, safe place to live. Did you know that grizzlies can smell dead animals 3 miles away. Like up on the mountain in the background.  

A giant electric guitar at the Museum of the Rockies

Saint Andrews, New Brunswick

Saint Andrews, New Brunswick. Leaving Sydney we headed for home. Stopping in Saint Andrews just before the border. Saint Andrews is an art community with lots of little shops and a great botanical garden.

visiting an old wooden bridge

Our trip to the Maritimes, Canada June-July 2018 

Sydney and Fortress of Louisbourg, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia

Fort Louisburg, Sidney, Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Island. Sydney is the main city in this area. We spend a couple of days there on the Sydney River. We heard some great music with Kitchfest. Which is an annual music festival held all over Cape Breton Island. Pretty great stuff.

For a day trip on July 1 we went down to Louisbourg and visited the Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Site. This was the location when France control Canada. This was the center of cod fishing in the 18th-century. Cod was fished here and shipped to France to feed Paris. It is an amazing place and well worth checking out. We only spent a half day there, you could easily spend and entire day if not more. We even got to seem them shoot the canons. This fort was captured twice by the British. The French were great at making forts but not in keeping them.

Right outside our hotel in Sydney is a performance hall and this giant violin

Walking into the Fortress of Louisbourg.

They have re-created about 25% of the village, including restaurants with traditional food. 

Inside the fort

Cape Breton, Cabot Trail

Cape Breton and the Cabot Trail. Known as one of the 10 outstanding drives in North America. Picturesque and French, the Cabot Trail circles around the Northern end of the island. This is the Arcadia area on Cape Breton Island, everyone is speaking French.

Along the Cabot Trail on Cape Breton Island

Rocky oceanside along the Cabot Trail 

P.E.I Prince Edward Island, Green and Beautiful

P.E.I. Prince Edward Island, Anna of Green Gables. One of the coolest places we have been. You understand right away why people love it here. It is beautiful, green, peaceful. Like you went back in time. Cross over on the 8 mile causeway and take the ferry back. You know there are no rocks on P.E.I. They have to import gravel.

A small fishing village on the north side of the island

What a fun night with the Ross Family Ceilidh. Crazy active music

Taking the ferry back to Nova Scotia

On the ferry across the Northumberland Strait out of Wood Island to Pictou

New Brunswick Bay of Fundy

New Brunswick  and the Bay of Fundy

Gardens on St. Andrews, New Brunswick

At the Bay of Fundy National Park

Enjoying the waterfalls at the Bay of Fundy National Park

On the floor at the Bay of Fundy

Louise at the Bay of Fundy, low tide

High tide, Bay of Fundy