Travel
Share Good News When You Have It, I Say
I have a lot of great things to report, and I am happy to be the bearer of good news, not bad. The first great thing is about GoNOMAD.com — our new design is really working. The bounce rate is now down below 20 %, where before it was drastically […]
Grand Manan Island is the Richest Island in Canada
We’ve spent the past few days about 20 miles off the coast of New Brunswick, on Grand Manan Island, pronounced Grand Ma-NAAN. After kayaking along the shore, viewing the famous Hole in the Wall, a dramatic rock formation on the shoreline, and meeting several locals and visitors, we’ve learned a […]
New Brunswick: Where Have You Been All Our Lives?
We scrambled down a wooden walkway and across a grassy path, on our way to a scenic lighthouse out on the northern tip of Grand Manan Island. As we gazed out at the Passamaquoddy Bay, with the light glinting off the water, I turned to my partner Mary and gushed […]
Riding Off Kilter by the Ocean in Saint Andrews
We met a man in a kilt yesterday–and he made us put on kilts too! After all, we were in St Andrews, and many Scots settled here back in the day. Kurt Gumushel runs Off Kilter Bike Tours, and grew up in this small town of just 1500, so he […]
Algonquin Hotel’s Golf Club: A Swing with a View
Jason Porter has had a tough summer. The golf pro and director of at the Algonquin Hotel’s beautiful ocean front 18-hole course hasn’t been able to swing a club since early summer, due to an injury. Yet he still gets to the course at the crack of dawn and leaves […]
Eleanor Roosevelt’s Remarkable Life Illuminated Over Tea
We started our morning early in Bar Harbor because we had a date for tea….tea with two lovely women, Carolyn Newman and Debbie Mitchell, who work as docents at the Roosevelt Campobello International Park in New Brunswick, Canada. Eleanor Roosevelt was an American icon who earned her place in history […]
Ogunquit, Maine: A Beach Like No Other
We arrived at our hotel in Ogunquit, Maine tonight around 4:30 pm, and after settling in, we set out to discover what one of my friends described as “the best beach on the East coast.” A tall order to be sure, but after we had walked over a bridge across […]
Traveling by Car Has a Wonderful Simplicity: North to New Brunswick
Going on a trip to another country is way, way easier when you’re driving. As we pack up and head up to Ogunquit, en route to Bar Harbor, then New Brunswick, I feel a lighter load, and less anxiety. No flight to miss/catch, no security to go through, no worries […]
London’s Calling, and This Time I Didn’t Hang Up
You know that feeling when you are searching airfares, and get so close, and then bail out, never actually hitting the ‘buy’ button? The fares, the dreams, and your whole trip gets thrown out when you just don’t have the nerve to do it. Sometimes when you go back to […]