The morning was cloudy and the wind, which
had to be 30+ last night, continues.
There’s no way to keep a camp stove lit.
There was really no urgency to do anything in particular so we went into
North Sydney to Walmart for a few things.
While there we saw microwave ovens on sale. Mmm...if we can’t use the
camp stove… and we have electric… we could use a microwave. At the price to eat out, about three meals
will would equal the micro. So we kicked
it around but neither of us had a real gut feeling one way or the other. We left Wallyworld without one. Then, as we thought more about it… maybe if
we got one of the smallest ones? We
looked at several stores and found a Sears store about size of a convenience
store and they had just what we wanted.
It was also on sale. Well almost...The
sale ended a day or two ago. The sales
lady said to the supervisor as she winked at us “I have to sell it to them at
the sale price, right?” The supervisor
grinned and said “Yea, at the sale price”.
So now back to Wallyworld to buy microwaveable food. We weren’t on the road until nearly 1:00 PM.
We set out for the Cabot Trail. We joined the trail at South Gut Saint Anns
(don’t ask me how they come up with the names) and headed north, or as they say
“counter-clockwise”. The Trail encircles
the mountains of northwest Nova Scotia.
At first it reminded us of Potter County, PA with a shoreline. 
But when
we reached Cape Smokey, Potter County went out the window. On Smokey Mountain we climbed up the edge of
a mountain, and I mean the edge. The van
started making funny noises…OOOH DEEEAR…OOH MMMMMY...AHGGGGGH.
Wait, that’s not coming from the van…It’s coming from the passenger
seat. The road is very narrow and winds
like an snake with the hick-ups and the guard rail looks like it was used for the
infield at a demolition derby! But the view is spectacular.
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| Is that the edge of the world? |
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| This truck was crawling down the mountain |
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| Linda was holding the camera so tight she almost got the 500 ft .drop! |
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| These guys are going "clockwise". |
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| The view at the top of Smokey Mountain. You can see the cut for the road. |
We stopped at a little ranger station as we
entered Cape Breton Highlands National Park (now that name makes sense). Many of the parks camping areas are closed
but the one at Broad Cove has selected sites available. It is a beautiful park surrounded in
evergreen and birch forest.
We could actually cookout so I did the
burgers on the grill and Linda cooked up the macaroni in the microwave. Now that’s really is roughing it.
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| YUMM |
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