Canada is cold but it's good to be home.

We wondered how we'd do getting back into the country, but we were at the border a total of about 2 minutes.  Our first stop was St John, NB.  It's the first incorporated city in Canada.

 This is what Yvette saw at the St. John Walmart before she pushed Tori back saying, 'boys boys boys boys...'

 St. John, the Hollywood of the maritimes. 

 We like art we can interact with

At the Legislature in Fredericton we got to park closer than you can at any other legislature.

The old architecture is beautiful.

 This chandelier fell in 2001, and took quite a while to be restored.

The first meeting of the NB executive council happened around this table in 1784.

 Sussex, NB was an important stop for James, as he's out grown his bike.  He found a really good deal on this Rocky Mtn, Fusion.   The bad deal was Janna trying it out and going head over heals because of the sensitive front brake. 

 We drove to Magnetic Hill in Moncton with Michael Wilson, the principal who hired me 18 years ago.  The best part about magnetic hill was that it was closed and we got to drive around the gate.

 Michael and his mom, Mary are two of the most gracious people on earth.  They showed us around, hosted us for supper, and let Tori, James and I come over to watch the canucks game 1 which started at 11 p.m. here.

 This old baptist church was phenomenal.

Nice little organ.

We toured out to Lunenberg near Halifax after saying goodbye to the Wilsons.  This is the only campsite open in the maritmes this early in the year.  It's good to be plugged in and have good Wifi again.

Some sights near town.

 Blue Rocks is a gorgeous fishing community.

 Lunenberg is the only place that packs high liner food, so we're having haddock for supper tonight.

 It's also where the bluenose II was built and is now being refurbished.

 Wow! I caught up to where we are!  I almost forgot to tell you, I got pulled over in New Hampshire for a right turn on a red against a posted don't do that.  The State Patrol man seemed quite irritated by me, but he let us off.  That was the second best thing about New Hampshire.

heading home to Canada

I promised a few more pictures of the beautiful area of Panther Creek.
This was the view from part of our Sunday afternoon hike.  Cherokee Lake.

Red Bud was everywhere beautifying Spring

Jake spotted the dino-dog rock.

The trail system around here is excellent for hiking, biking and running.

We found a cool little limestone tunnel, which when you pass through.....

...you turn into Janna

This State Park is one of the nicest we've seen.  They even have sword fighters,

and tennis courts.

I don't know what kind of tree pod this is, but the star below is the seed ball of a sugar gum tree.

We were under the impression that only Texas could fly their flag on the same pole as the stars and stripes, but it is also done in other states like Tennessee.

We headed through Virginia on Hwy 81,  and it's all beautiful rolling farm land.

We camped in a sea of trucks at the Pilot in Northern Virginia.  We're glad for the place to camp, and more glad that this is not a common view out our window.

We enjoyed another visit with our West Virginian friends, Charles and Mary, before heading for the North.  On Thursday, April 7th, we drove from W.V., passed through Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, where we had to see Boston and some late evening sights..

including this little known bar,

and Faneuil Hall, where Sam Adams helped plan the Boston Tea Party riot,..

And the court yard of Harvard founded in 1636...

... before we carried on to New Hampshire.

 The 20 mile coastal part of NH. is beautiful,

 and they've got this cool sub at Portsmouth.

 "Tell the Captain I see cars coming over a bridge!"

"CAp'n! there's cars coming over the bridge.

..and can we get some better sleeping arrangements?"

 The best part of NH for me was 0 sales tax.  Perfect time for a new set of tires.

 Maine seems to be quite concerned about our physical well being.

 This is what I see on any long drive day.

 At Blue Hill we went to church with Paul and Ginger Doyle, who we met at Mustang in Texas.

 They had us over for chili after church...

 and we got to play with Jada again, too.

Monday, April 11th it's on to New Brunswick.