Showing posts with label Canada. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Canada. Show all posts

Time to Eat Crow... We're Unorthodox... and How do YOU recharge?

Time to Eat Crow. I Now Believe in Moose!

I stand corrected. I apologize, I couldn't have been more wrong. 

Moose exist.

It was less than a week upon our arrival in Anchorage, Alaska that I spied my first moose while traveling along the Seward Highway south of town.

AND he was swimming. I am now fully obsessed with moose, as demonstrated... CONTINUE READING >>

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We're Unorthodox! What are YOU Going to do with Your Empty Nest?

Deseret News intrigued us with some interesting Boomer stats and asked us to weigh in with our thoughts and experience!

"With a son who is a pilot and is able to fly and see them often, as well as two daughters who can both be visited by traveling to the same city, the family is reunited often.

'I'm fairly certain we see our kids more traveling a lot than if we were in one place'"... Read the full article and leave a comment here


Where Do You Go to Recharge? Meet Me at Women at Woodstock!

I wrote extensively about my first experience at Women at Woodstock last year, about how I agreed to go -- kicking and screaming a bit -- and the immediate benefits I received by attending.
It's been an incredible year for me and the women I met at WAW have been supporting me all the way!

 I'll be speaking at this year's main event, and I would love for you to join me there! Click in to see for yourself how WAW can change your life!


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Eating (and Drinking) Our Way Through Newfoundland


As with everything about life in Newfoundland, the food revolves around the sea. 

Pictured: David kisses a cod!

In fact, seafood is the main reason that settlers from Europe came to the island in the first place.

See all the wonderful ways Newfoundland prepares the catch of the day!... CONTINUE READING >>

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Summer Travel Idea: Escape to Breathtaking Newfoundland

Breathtaking vistas, natural wonders, and fabulous people (so nice, we actually felt guilty at times!) combine to make the island of Newfoundland one of our favorite places on earth.

Here's why we think Newfoundland should be at the top of everyone's bucket list... CONTINUE READING >>


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The Isthmus of Why We Speak English... and a little teaser!

Sandwiched between our explorations of Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, and Halifax we discovered an often overlooked, and historically important, stretch of Atlantic Canada.

Travel with us through New Brunswick and Nova Scotia and discover The Bay of Fundy, with the highest tides in the world, learn how folks got around before cars, overdose on blueberries, and find out how the Scots made it to the New World... CONTINUE READING >>


Coming up on GypsyNester.com this week:

Remember that big news we've been spouting off about? The news we were afraid to talk about because we couldn't believe it was actually happening? 

We'll be announcing it on Tuesday! We can't WAIT to share!

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The Birds of St. Mary's

On the far southern tip of Newfoundland live so many birds it was actually shocking.

Bird Rock is a massive dome, covered with nesting gannets and penguin-like auks, jutting out of a huge canyon with vertical sides that fall more than thirty stories straight down to the sea.

Spectacular!... CONTINUE READING >>


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Whales, Icebergs, Wine & Getting "Screeched In" in Twillingate, Newfoundland

Join your GypsyNesters in beautiful Twillingate, Newfoundland!

We kayaked with whales! And dolphins! AND icebergs!

We became honorary Newfoundlanders by getting "Screeched In" - we kissed the cod, shot the Screech and took the oath (in varying degrees of success)!

Sample toutons and tea, check out a real-deal musical group and enjoy wine made from... CONTINUE READING >>


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A Prince of an Island

You've heard the word picturesque, right? Trust us, this is not a word we throw around lightly - it's a bit fancy-schmancy for everyday use.

BUT there can be no other word to describe Prince Edward Island. Pretty and quaint, it's as if you've wandered into a painted picture.

Join us as we explore this beautiful island, learn about her people, her seafood, her farms, and her famous bridge. Find out why PEI is called The Cradle of the Canadian Confederacy and how foxes built mansions... CONTINUE READING >>


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Exploiting Central Newfoundland

Let's check out Central Newfoundland!

Take a rip-roarin' ride down the Exploits River with us (trust us, that's not the strangest name we saw!), meet the Beothuk People, enjoy a lobster picnic, and find out more about the fishing culture of this wonderful land... CONTINUE READING >>


Also on GypsyNester.com this week:

We sat down with the fabulous Chloe Jeffreys of the aptly named Generation Fabulous and discussed helicopter mom recovery, staying connected with our adult kids, reinventing middle-age, and the importance of... CONTINUE READING or leave a comment! >>

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Just the Halifax

Join us on an eerie, foggy day as we experience the seafaring ways of the Canadian Maritime Provinces in their biggest city, Halifax.

Take a stroll with us as we pay our respects in the cemetery of the unknown victims of the Titanic disaster and though the amazing Victorian Public Gardens.

See the boardwalk with its weird and wonderful art installations, view the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic with its Titanic and Halifax Explosion exhibits, and Pier 21 - Canada's Ellis Island. Get a sample of the Canadian street foods poutine and donair. And watch ghost ships in the mist... CONTINUE READING >>


Also on GypsyNester.com this week:
We’re excited to announce we’re hosting round #68 of Travel Photo Roulette!
For each round a new theme is chosen, and independent travel bloggers are asked to submit their photos. Then a winner is chosen to host (and judge) the following round on their website!

 Do you have a photo to enter? It’s EASY and you get a shot at hosting this very popular contest on your site!

 Don’t have a photo to enter? Check in often to see some amazing photographs – by the world’s best independent travel bloggers – and please, Please, PLEASE help us pick a winner by leaving a comment about your favorite shot! ... SUBMIT YOUR PHOTO OR COMMENT HERE!

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Icebergs and Vikings on the Great Northern Peninsula

While our explorations may not require nearly the mettle of a bunch of bearded, red-headed, horned-helmet-wearing brutes setting out across The North Sea in an open boat; navigating a house on wheels over barren, weather beaten roads up to the very top of Newfoundland's Great Northern Peninsula did require a certain measure of... CONTINUE READING >> 

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Acadians, Canadians, and Cajuns

There is something quintessentially southern about the Louisiana bayou country known as Acadiana, so it seemed strange that we would go north of the U. S. border to discover its roots and origins.

The Cajuns' ancestry traces directly back to Canada's Maritime Provinces, so there was no better place to begin our investigation than in Nova Scotia at the Grand-Pré National Historic Site. It was along this coast on The Bay of Fundy that the first French settlers to come to the new world arrived in 1605, before... CONTINUE READING >> 

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Fjords, Carnivorous Plants and Standing on the Earth's Mantle in Newfoundland

Join your GypsyNesters as we trod upon the Earth's mantle, discover the breathtaking beauty of a fjord by water, dodge carnivorous plants, devour a traditional Jiggs Dinner, frolic with massive amounts of butterflies, and learn what a pudding sock... CONTINUE READING >> 

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Green Gables - Bringing My Childhood Imagination to Life

Laura of Little House on the Prairie and Anne of Anne of Green Gables were my closest literary companions in childhood.

There was something about these girls' feistiness and spirit that sparked "the scope of my imagination" - a bookwormish preteen girl who spent hour upon hour with her nose stuck in the pages of... CONTINUE READING >> 

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How To 'Drive' to Newfoundland


We've been wanting to see Newfoundland for years, but we wanted to do it in our motorhome. 

Wait a minute, Newfoundland is an island, and our little RV may do a lot of things, but driving across the North Atlantic is not one of them. Yet there is a way to get an motorhome -- or any other vehicle -- onto the island
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Fear Conquering & Zip Lining 300 Feet High

I have to wonder who thinks up things like zip lining? What kind of sick mind muses - "hey, lets launch folks across a gaping canyon on a wire - that'll be awesome!"

Zip lining, in my mind, falls into the bungee-jumping, rodeo-clowning, leaping-off-buildings-in-suits-with-wings category of antics. Better off left to the fearless young whippersnapper types.

Not something I'd ever... CONTINUE READING >>
  

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Live-blogging Atlantic Canada - Having a Merry Time in the Maritimes!

The Maritimes is a region rich in history -- involving sailors and fishermen, pirates and generals, battles and treaties, shipwrecks and rum running, and the birth pangs of two great nations.

Our journey sets out where Canada began, on Prince Edward Island... CONTINUE READING >> 

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Hitting the Canadian Maritimes with Road Scholar!

Once again we are preparing for a journey with the remarkable outfit Road Scholar. As a not-for-profit organization, their mission is continuing education through travel for those of us who have reached a certain age.

AND starting on Sunday we will be live-blogging the entire adventure!

As we found last year on our trip to The Galapagos Islands and Machu Picchu with Road Scholar, this philosophy brings together like-minded travelers who... CONTINUE READING >> 

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Understand Newfoundland (hint: that's how to pronounce it)

Whales, icebergs and Vikings all a-half-an-hour late out in The North Atlantic, but what else did we find in Newfoundland?

Magnificent vistas, mountains that rise right out of the sea, the freshest seafood imaginable, and the friendliest people anywhere in the world.

Join us as we explore this unique land on the edge of the continent by boat, motorhome, foot, and ATV... CONTINUE READING >> 

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Food for Thought: How Food Enhances Travel

An old adage says that you don't really know someone until you walk a mile in their shoes. We believe it is just as true that you don't really know a place until you eat a plate of its food.

There is so much more to visiting a destination than seeing the sights. We try to immerse... CONTINUE READING >> 

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A Bloodcurdling Buffet - 12 Frightful Foods of the World

How about a terrifying tour of the globe just in time for Halloween?

We've consumed these dozen frightening foods from around the world... so you don't have to... CONTINUE READING >> 

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