New England/Maritimes 2010
Maine, Nova Scotia, P.E.I., Québec
Friday July 30 through Saturday August 7
Stu & I attended Lindsay's (see the 2009 and 2010 Alaska trips) wedding in Maine. We extended the trip to include a visit to the Cape Breton Highlands in Nova Scotia, a visit to Green Gables (as in Anne of Green Gables books) in Prince Edward Island, and a tour of interior Québec, including the provincial capital city. We did a fair amount of hiking on the trip, and those GPS tracks are handled separately from those of the car travel. While the most glaring tracking errors have been edited out, a few tracks still contain extraneous spurs and spikes that didn't really happen.
Overview
- Overview map—This is a composite map of all the GPS tracks on a blank U.S. states map, with the states/provinces we visited highlighted in yellow. (Close-up of New England and the Maritimes)
- All GPS tracks / view map—The whole trip. (May take a few seconds to load.)
(Mostly unedited) GPS tracks:
Friday, July 30
Saturday, July 31
- GPX / view map—(By car) Wedding Day. We attended the wedding and reception in the Bath ME area.
- GPX / view map—Same as above, plus walking at the various destinations.
Sunday, August 1
Monday, August 2
- GPX / view map—Driving from Truro NS to Sydney NS, via the Cabot Trail (Cape Breton Highlands N. P.).
- GPX / view map—Hiking on three different trails in the Cape Breton Highlands National Park (Nova Scotia). The along-road tracks were where the GPS was inadvertently left on after a hike.
Tuesday, August 3
- GPX / view map—Driving from Sydney NS to Charlottetown PE, including a ferry ride from NS to PE, and a side trip to Green Gables.
- GPX / view map—(Hiking/walking) Includes our visit to Green Gables (Cavendish PE) and the North Rustico Harbour area (also Prince Edward Island). Also shows our ferry ride from NS to PE. (On the map, the walk/hike tracks are very short, and difficult to see without zooming in on those areas.)
Wednesday, August 4
- GPX / view map—Driving from Charlottetown PE to Rivière-du-Loup QC.
- GPX / view map—Walking from the hotel to a restaurant and back: Rivière-du-Loup QC.
Thursday, August 5
- GPX / view map—Driving from Rivière-du-Loup QC to Québec QC, including the fjords at Parc National du Saguenay, and the Trou de la Fée (bat cave) near Desbiens/Lac Saint-Jean.
- GPX / view map—A couple of short hikes in the fjord area (see above), and the Trou de la Fée area (see above again). Note that the return part of the hike at TdlF was exactly the same path. The GPS accuracy apparently wasn't the best for this one.
Friday, August 6
- GPX / view map—Driving from Québec QC to Manchester NH, including a visit to the old part of the city of Québec.
- GPX / view map—Walking in old (Vieux) Québec QC.
Saturday, August 7
- GPX / view map—Driving to the airport, then flying from Manchester NH to Oklahoma City, via Detroit MI.
Waypoints: GPX / view map—waypoints associated with this trip.
