I love Nova Scotia

"I love Nova Scotia!"

These were my exact words when we walked into the information center at Port Hastings prior to driving on to Cape Breton Island. We had been driving for about an hour since getting off the Northumberland Ferry from Prince Edward Island. The mountains and forests of NS were incredible and I was on a high. The information center was full of people and the staff of 10 were mostly busy helping them. My exuberance had gotten the best of me and my “I Love Nova Scotia!” was a bit loud. All the staff stopped doing what they were doing and almost in unison, replied, “So Do We!” What a fuss! Big smiles around and I then accused them of keeping this place a secret. They explained they were doing there best to get the word out and then treated us like royalty as they explained the ins and outs of Nova Scotia.

Our first objective in Nova Scotia is exploring Cape Breton Island and the world famous Cabot Trail. We made the small harbor of Baddek our staging point as Suzy picked out a nice campground there. Just before the campground I made a wrong turn onto the Cabot Trail highway and going the wrong way. Uphill and no turn arounds in sight. We kept going, higher and higher and nothing in sight. I finally gave up and pulled into a narrow driveway. Couple of blind corners as I backed out to try and turn around on the busy highway. Stopped traffic in both directions as I maneuvered the 5th wheel to do a 180. Then we were off again with only about 8 cars and drivers shaking their heads.

We pulled in to our very narrow pull through slot and met our neighbor from Lubbock, TX with his 55 foot super deluxe motor home, 20 trailer for his sports car and trophy wife. Man with everything. When I extended the slider on his side my slider and his slider were (no exaggeration) 9” apart. Talk about having close neighbors. We both chuckled how the spots are becoming narrower and narrower. Not how our RVs are getting wider and wider. Suzy and I chuckled in private on how “WE” were now the Clampets next to their luxurious rig. Granny and Jethro no less.

Suzy very disappointed we can’t get the internet from here. Only spot wifi works is on the counter in the office. A bit disrupting to their business, but they advertised free wifi. Suzy has been on a bad run picking RV campgrounds. Out of her last four picks, three were pretty sketchy. She was likewise as unsuccessful on picking bakeries and restaurants lately. She is a bit gun shy now about making those BIG decisions.