Setting off on a three week trip isn't quite the same as zipping off for a long weekend. Much more planning is involved; more arrangments have to be made; the calendar has to be cleared; the contents of suitcases pile up much higher.
TripAdvisor makes finding possible accommodations easier to locate, but one still needs to plow through all those reviews to find "the perfect place", then get in touch with the proprietor to make reservations. Coordination involves contacting friends and family we hope to visit and working their schedules into ours as well as booking ferry tickets and figuring out seasonal events we might run into along the way -- to say nothing of trying to figure out what we want to do while we are on the road.
Sometimes the tasks seem a bit overwhelming; once everything begins to fall into place, however, the results appear well worth the effort. Not everything has been nailed down, that's for sure. We're still open to serendipity but not quite as carefree as we might have been in days gone by.
We ARE all packed. We DO have a detailed schedule at hand ready to implement. We ARE ready to go and very much looking forward to the days and weeks to come.
A few preliminary parting observations: this will be much much less a "sightseeing" tour crowded with "places of interest" and much more a "people-oriented" excursion, visiting friends and family, searching out family history, reliving personal memories of times past; we have booked some pretty special bed-and-breakfast accommodations, representative of the Victorian, Queen Ann and Gothic architecture of the late nineteenth century which seems to dominate much of traditional residential Nova Scotia architecture; besides all that coastal autumn scenery,we anticipate dining regularly on some pretty special seafood fresh from the ocean's depths.
Can't wait to get underway!
TripAdvisor makes finding possible accommodations easier to locate, but one still needs to plow through all those reviews to find "the perfect place", then get in touch with the proprietor to make reservations. Coordination involves contacting friends and family we hope to visit and working their schedules into ours as well as booking ferry tickets and figuring out seasonal events we might run into along the way -- to say nothing of trying to figure out what we want to do while we are on the road.
Sometimes the tasks seem a bit overwhelming; once everything begins to fall into place, however, the results appear well worth the effort. Not everything has been nailed down, that's for sure. We're still open to serendipity but not quite as carefree as we might have been in days gone by.
We ARE all packed. We DO have a detailed schedule at hand ready to implement. We ARE ready to go and very much looking forward to the days and weeks to come.
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| RESERVATIONS MADE: MURRAY MANOR, YARMOUTH; BREAD AND ROSES BED AND BREAKFAST, ANNAPOLIS ROYAL; ALICION BED AND BREAKFAST, LUNENBURG |
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