Peggy’s Cove and Lunenburg, NS, Canada 2019 – NNs On the Wind

September 24, 2019December 5, 2019 Kathleen Ennen

SEP 23, 2019 – Peggy’s Cove, NS

We drove away from Halifax having had a terrific weekend that was sunny and warm and made us feel like Nova Scotia was a terrific place to be. We drove towards the south and west in the direction of the coast with our destination the World Heritage site of the town of Lunenburg.

We took a detour to Peggy’s Cove, known for its quaint village and lighthouse. It’s a tiny village!!! We parked and wandered up to the rocky area surrounding the lighthouse. What a spot!

The Lunenburg Campground was located at the edge of town, up on top of the hill. The town’s architecture is notably eighteenth century and the streets are narrow and easier to walk than drive (in a RV).

SEP 24, 2019 – Lunenburg, NS

We walked down to the waterfront on the 24^th and encountered strange activity that impeded access to some of the docks. It turns out that the town is being used to film some of the scenes of The Good House starring Sigourney Weaver and Kevin Kline. We didn’t see them but others had!! We walked a good portion of the town near the harbor and then enjoyed a quiet evening in the RV as we start to plan our return journey to Massachusetts. It’s time to start planning for any warranty work that needs to be scheduled at the place we bought from a year ago, and to coordinate the schedule for our upcoming family reunion October 18.

We have traveled over the years and retired in 2017, when we started on a nine month long adventure departing in December 2017. In the past we’ve traveled to Sri Lanka, Africa (several times), Turkey, and made a number of trips to Europe, and St Lucia. Our 2015 trip to Turkey, took nearly 3 weeks to explore Istanbul, Cappadocia and the areas in proximity to Izmir.

This is a chronicle of our travels, past and present. We love to travel by trains, planes, ships, and cars – and love sailing whenever and wherever we can.

We retired from the US General Services Administration, the Federal Government’s landlord! Thom worked at planning and large scale program management of numerous projects and Kathleen, a registered professional civil engineer, was a project manager for many infrastructure and building renovation projects, including both design and construction aspects, in New England, Florida and the metro DC area. We lived in Washington DC for 12 years and upon retirement sold the house, putting a few things in a 5’x5’ storage unit and started traveling.

On return to the US in September 2018, after traveling to 21 countries, we bought a Class C RV – 2019 Thor Freedom Elite 24FE. We enjoyed our week long camping trip in New Zealand in a small converted van with few amenities, so this seemed liked a good way to tour the US. We hope to visit family along the way and as many US National Parks as possible.

UPDATE – the Covid pandemic made travel more difficult for us. We were abroad for several months when the pandemic started and returned to the US in July 2020. After several months in the RV to visit Utah and Albuquerque NM, we moved east, bought a house on the Northern Neck of Virginia, and sold the RV. For 2021 and 2022 we tended to our new house and cottage, gardens and various boats including a 18’ 1977 Marshall Sanderling catboat and a 25’ Steiger Craft Chesapeake fishing boat, and kayaks and a canoe. Hopefully travel will start again one day!!

May 2022