The weather was ugly at Twillingate on Wednesday, June 17th – Day 20 of our trip and the 13th day in Newfoundland. We visited the nearby Long Point Lighthouse and Twillingate Lighthouse Heritage Museum, and that was pretty much it for the day. We couldn’t get near the Twillingate...

Tuesday, June 16th, Day 19 of our trip and the 12th day in Newfoundland, was a long day of driving due to our Most Excellent detour to Gros Morne yesterday. We had 421 km to cover. We got off to an early start, mostly because we not only had...

Monday, June 15th, Day 18 of our trip and the 11th day in Newfoundland, didn’t go anything like we had planned – it was far better 🙂 I was up early writing as usual, when a boat came along and hurried back and forth along our bit of coast...

Sunday, June 14, Day 17 of our trip and the 10th day in Newfoundland, was intended to be a partial day to explore Port au Choix before moving on, but we very soon decided to stay another night. As I write this, it’s our favourite community so far. My...

Saturday, June 13, Day 16 of our trip and the 9th day in Newfoundland, was intended to be a full day at St. Anthony with another overnight stay there, but turned out to be a partial day then we drove south to Port au Choix to get better weather....

On Friday, June 12th, Day 15 of the trip, the weather was dramatically better! Our planned destination, St. Anthony, was only 35 km away so we had time to do more exploring at the northern tip of the island. I really wanted to return to L’Anse aux Meadows to...

L’Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site is the only authenticated Viking settlement in North America and the earliest evidence of Europeans in North America. This was really the trigger to create this journey, with Gros Morne National Park also being significant. Everything else on the itinerary just got added...

After getting set up at the Viking RV Park on June 10th, I decided to go for a walk, possibly to see the nearby communityn of Quirpon (population 77) and it turned into a very long walk. Here’s the map from my Strava page. For an interactive Google map,...

On Wednesday, June 10th, Day 13 of the trip and our 6th day in Newfoundland, we drove 438 km to an RV park just a few km from the L’Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site. We made few stops, simply because there were few places to stop. I have...

Following our Western Brook Pond boat tour, it was only 23 km to Green Point Campground where we had a reservation. After 10 minutes on the road, though, a sign reminded us of the S.S. Ethie shipwreck at Martin’s Point, and I pulled in there. It’s a very scenic...