After four years of living in the desert climate of Qatar, I’m now back in Nova Scotia and just experienced my first snowfall of the season! It was “Big Snow – Little Snow” – meaning big snow flakes that don’t last long. My drive home from work as the rain starts to turn to snow…..
Tag: Canada
Blue Beach, Hantsport, Nova Scotia
Blue Beach was a first for me, but a well known walk for my friend Liz who lives in Windsor. Blue Beach has a tidal range of 16 meters and is known as a significant fossil location. Everything about this beach is Nova Scotia – gorgeous landscape, water edging the landscape, and some fossils along…
Autumn Colors of Nova Scotia
Autumn is beautiful in Nova Scotia, as the leaves on deciduous trees turn bright colors with the changing season. I wanted to share some of this province’s beauty with a few pictures I’ve taken over the past few weeks! Autumn is also time of the harvest and apples trees are ready for picking! These are apple…
Nova Scotia, Canada – Home After 4 Years in Qatar
Coming home meant a continuum of emotions, along with lots of to-do lists, as we became Canadian residents again while starting our life here with everything we gained in Qatar. Settling into 5th Wheel Living This was a rigamarole of making our way through campsites until we finally found what we were looking for: free….
Canadian Repatriation Adventure – Quebec, Through New Brunswick to Nova Scotia – We Made It!
June 16th we flew from Qatar to Canada – landing at the Montreal Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport to begin our repatriation adventure! July 5th we crossed the provincial borders of Quebec, through New Brunswick to Nova Scotia! On The Road Again! Quebec to New Brunswick New Brunswick to Nova Scotia We were home….. S,…
Canadian Repatriation Adventure – Montreal, Quebec – The “Truck” Issue!
This was insane! But, I’m getting ahead of myself because this situation was so stressful, that I think my husband Michael deserves a T-Shirt that says: “With Our 3/4 Ton Standard Transmission, 2500 Heavy Duty Chevy Silverado, I Successfully Hauled our 38ft, 10,000pd 5th Wheel Through Crazy Construction Reroutes in Downtown Montreal With a Failed Clutch!!“ But,…
Canadian Repatriation Adventure – A Week in Gananoque, Ontario
With our new 5th wheel (our new home until we build our long term real, land-based home) having to stay at the dealership for a week to get ready for us, Michael and I had a week in the town of Gananoque. Click here to read about our new 5th wheel! Quality Inn & Suites…
Canadian Repatriation Adventure – Next Stop – Gananoque, Ontario – Our New To Us 5th Wheel!
Imagine never having stepped foot in a sailboat, or know anything about sailboats but you purchase a 38ft sailboat, put her in the water and then attempt to sail off into the sunset, but you don’t know how to sail and have to learn as you go! That was what buying our RV, our 5th…
Canadian Repatriation Adventure – First Stop – Ottawa, Ontario – Canada’s Capital City!
We were still on the move immediately after our 14 hour flight from Qatar to Montreal, (click here to read that blog about our [final] last day in Qatar!), but not yet on the move towards our final repatriation destination – Halifax, Nova Scotia! We were on the move to drop off our two cats…
Happy New Year’s Day From Tbilisi, Georgia!
Yup, I’m starting 2019 in this little country that sits on the continental border of Europe and Asia and is surrounded by Russia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, and the Black Sea! After Michael and I’s Mediterranean cruise, I had three days to blog about our adventures and be blog up-to-date ready for my solo trip here during…
