Trip Part 1, By the Numbers

Today is the 100th day of our adventure. So here are a few numbers for you: Number of Provinces and Territories Visited: 8 provinces, 1 territory Number of States Visited: 24 Number of New States for Sierra: 3 (Idaho, Oregon, and Maine) Number of Times Canada-United States Border Crossed: 12 Number of Time Zones: 6 [...]

Best (and Worst) of the Trip, Part 1

We, the Hieronymus/Labinsky family, have decided to put together a “Best (and Worst) of the Trip” list. There will be four lists, each for a leg of our trip, and this is the first one. Best Meal: beerbistro, Toronto Best RV-Cooked Meal: Pasta With Red Peppers and Tomato Sauce (Sierra calls it Tomato-Pepper Pasta) Worst [...]

New Jersey Cardboard Boat Races

Posted by Stan We might drive slowly, but when you log more than 14,000 miles in about three months, then you are breaking the “rules” of Slow Travel: Slow down, immerse yourself in the local culture and avoid the fast pace of rushing from one guidebook “must-see” to the next. We expect the pace to [...]

What if the RV were a hotspot?

Posted by Stan We’ve completed most of the tasks we need to before we park the RV and head off to Europe for 15 weeks, from winterizing it (since it will be December when we return) to having the leak around the skylight fixed. And we’ve talked a bit about if we should go with [...]

Canada’s like the U.S., except …

Posted by Daria Words spelled differently: tonne, harbour, centre, etc. Interesting foods: Poutine (French fries, gravy, and cheese curds); dulse (seaweed); ketchup-flavoured potato chips; donair (meat cooked like a gyro, also a sandwich); coffee cream Interesting highway signs: Please keep a safe gap from vehicle ahead Physical depiction of blowing wind god’s head to denote [...]

Trash Talk

Posted by Sierra It’s heavy, it’s packed together, it’s made of garbage! What is it? A cube of garbage? Close, but not quite. Guess again. Give up? It’s the one, the only … Traaaaaaaaaaaaaaaashosaurus! And where does this “dirty” dino live? The Children’s Garbage Museum, of course. Located in Stratford, Connecticut, how you view this [...]

A Connecticut Castle

Posted by Sierra Atop one of the “Seven Sisters,” the seven hills in East Haddam, Connecticut, sits Gillette Castle. Completed in 1919, the “Castle,” also called the “Seventh Sister” took 5 men 20 years to build. The estate was personally designed by actor/director/playwright William Gillette, who is best known for his role as Sherlock Holmes [...]

The Five-Minute Guide to Canada

Posted by Daria Don’t have time to read much? Well, here’s a quick and easy guide to the Canadian provinces and territories, roughly in the order in which we visited them. As a special treat, it includes a sampling of the winners in the “Hieronymus/Labinsky Best of the First Leg of Our Trip” Poll. British [...]

You meet the nicest people

Posted by Stan Would you drive three hours out of your way to see this? You would if you are a Slow Traveler. We didn’t know anything about “the world’s largest illuminated fiddle” until we saw the image on a postcard in a Cape Breton gift shop. It’s not just that we have an affection [...]

Another Cheesy Blog Post

By Sierra K. H., Curds ‘n’ Whey Reporter “Ladies and Gentlemen, the cheeses!” That was what Official Cheese Chopper Daria Labinsky said after the Official Cheese Label Maker and Curds ‘n’ Whey Reporter Sierra K. Hieronymus introduced each cheese at the First Vermont/Wisconsin Cheese Fest. The cheese were: * Scratch & Dent Swiss from Who [...]

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