Life is good in Canada

We are here! Not a bad day's travel. MSP to Detroit...had a healthy lunch and bought some traveling books -- Laura is reading Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dosteoevsky , Penny's fare is much lighter with The Traveler by John Twelve Hawks. Laura is jealous...her only other 'light read' is To Kill a Mockingbird...someone needs to remind her she DOES receive the NY Times Book Review every Sunday!) Also picked up Will Shortz' Sudoku for summer vacations!

Flight from Detroit to Halifax was interesting...one flight attendant for the passengers (a mere 60 passengers). Halifax at night as we arrived laid out like a jeweled necklace set complete with earbobs and a bracelet...the coastline was lit and the way the bays wrapped in and around Halifax/Dartmouth was breathtaking -- can't wait to see it in the day time.

Our hotel is the Rainbow Hotel in Truro...very Mom and Pop place. The owner's son was a bit disappointed that we had missed the Dr. Hook concert and so did he because we were so late arriving! The motel is like little cottages strung along the town street. There are orange bedskirts!!! Very 50's I think. Good news -- the water is POTABLE!

Late, now. 2 hours ahead of MN. Thinking of our family and pets. Time to do some tourtista reading (Tidal Bores tomorrow and the search begins for the greatest cup of coffee in the Atlantic Maritimes!).

We leave you with this from Lao Tzu: A journey of a thousand miles begin with a single step.