St. John’s, Newfoundland’s Big Smoke

St. John’s, Newfoundland’s Big Smoke

As we headed downtown, we were in search of St. John’s Jellybean Row. We drove down the city’s oldest street, Water Street, along the harbor. After some reading, I had learned that Jellybean Row or the Jellybean. Houses were not a specific street, but rather were many of the houses on the downtown hillside. Duckworth Street was a good place to begin. The brightly candy-colored row houses weren’t hard to find. They were everywhere!

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Blue Highways - US Highway 70

 Blue Highways - US Highway 70

When William Least Heat-Moon Heat wrote ‘Blue Highways: A Journey into America’ in 1979, he coined the term ‘blue highways’ because secondary highways on the old paper road maps were always printed in the blue. On the return from our holiday East Coast trip, Brennan suggested driving a ‘blue highway’ and since we relish road trips. but definitely dislike traveling on major interstates unless necessary, we opted to take his suggestion.

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The Dinosaurs of Drumheller

The Dinosaurs of Drumheller

Our original plan was to continue south from Banff to Waterton Lakes National Park. As usual, we got a little sidetracked. I ran across a reference to the World’s Largest Dinosaur… in Drumheller about 160 miles east of Banff via Calgary. How could we pass up such an opportunity?

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