June 30 - July 1, 2017 Auld's Point, NS to Trinity, Newfoundland 233 miles and an overnight ferry trip

Wow!  Quite the couple of days.  We left the Cove Motel in NS and made our first stop for an early lunch at Farmers Daughter Country Market on Hwy 105 in Whycocomagh, NS where we had our first taste of Donair which is a Nova Scotia specialty cured meat. They put it in everything from rolls to sandwiches, we even saw Donair flavored potato chips.  We then headed to the docks at North Sydney, NS to wait to board the overnight ferry to Newfoundland.

We met 3 guys riding motorcycles heading home to St. Johns, NL.  They gave us a heads-up on how to load the bike on the ship and tie it down. I have done it a couple of times before but advice was well taken to get 4 tie down straps before they are all taken.  After a couple of hours of waiting we rode the bike onboard and strapped down The Mighty GS. We rambled our way up to the eighth deck and found our quarters which were nice with two single beds, a head and even a window.  We had dinner a couple of hours later, went back to our cabin, watched a little baseball on the small TV in our room and went to sleep.

The next day we loaded up and rode off the ship around 10:30am and headed towards Trinity, NL.  The weather had turned cold, foggy and pretty windy. Temps got down to the mid to upper 40s and we got cold even geared up with multiple layers.  We made it to our room at the Eriksen B&B in Trinity, NL around 2:30pm local time.  Local NL time is 1.5 hours ahead of eastern time, who knows why they have a 30 minute increment?  We have absolutely no cell coverage so no texting and the wifi is very slow.  Today is Canada Day celebrating Canada's 150th birthday.  In one of the pictures you'll see a small Canadian flag on the bike to celebrate the big day.  We are staying 2 nights here so tomorrow will be less riding and no packing.

We just finished dinner and I added a photo below of Susie's meal, a local traditional Sunday meal of salt meat (kind of like corned beef), potatoes,  carrots, a mashed split pea mix, turnips, a type of pickle and cabbage.  She could not finish it all. I had a huge piece of salmon.

I posted a picture of a notice for a community dinner tomorrow night. I had to ask about the 'screech in' for $5. It's the local tradition of kissing a codfish and drinking the screetch, a hot rum drink.  Too bad we missed the deadline to sign up for the dinner.