The travels for today are over. We've logged some 2,940 km since leaving Toronto and all has gone reasonably well. We were greeted to a fantastic B&B Breakfast this morning by Leighton and his wife. It was all on fine china with a silverware spread and all the extras - from homemade jelly on small individual serving plates to a sumptuous skillet breakfast of egg and homefries with freshly squeezed orange juice, pineapple and homemade breads. Wow. For a breakfast like this it would be $30.00 in any fine hotel, but here it's included in the room rate. My faith in B&B's has been restored.

We were out the door by 9:30 and headed for the north beaches and then on to Charlottetown. We've wondered why all the huge lawns and properties are so well manicured but we NEVER see anyone mowing the lawns - we've guessed that it's governmentally mandated that you have to cut your property say on Thursdays because it's all so neat and tidy on the island. One of the waitresses in the local pub suspects that they don't want to be the odd man out, letting their property go, so they all maintain their properties to such high standards.

I'm not really sure what I expected Charlottetown to look like. I guess I thought it was gonna be like Kleinburg in my mind, but it was a little more big city than I had expected. Holland America's Veendam was pulled up to the pier downtown so that added a good thousand or so to the tourist traps. Generally we're very pleased with what we've seen here on the lsland, the roads, the little towns, the neatness. I just wish I had the rights to the "white paint" franchise on the island, I'd be a millionaire. Just about every house here is painted white.

We saw a few lighthouses in the beaches area, the dunes and the sea grasses was nice to see. One of the things on Ian's "to see" list was the Anne of Green Gables homestead, so we headed for Lucy Maude Montgomery's homestead only to find that all that was there was only the old building foundations and that no Green Gable house seemed to exist in Cavendish, even thought I know I saw one on CBC's television show.

Dinner was so enjoyable at the Island Stone Pub, that we returned again tonight for dinner and met the owner who actually hails from the Beaches in Toronto - tired with all the BS he and his wife moved to PEI to start a business. It's housed in an old railway station that's been converted into a restaurant serving delicious pub food at reasonable rates. There was even a large print of the Neville Streetcar rolling down the rails on King Street which was my first hint to ask why there was a large print of a Toronto Streetcar in Kensington.

Tomorrow we're up early (another sumputuous breakfast at 08:00) so that we can drive the hour-and-a-half trip to Woods Island and catch our ferry into Caribou, Nova Scotia. As I said yesterday this will save us some 300 km drive at a cost of only $77.00 for the four of us. We're closer and closer to our final objective - Newfoundland. We catch the large ferry from North Sydney to Argentia, NL at 5:00 p.m. and take the sixteen (16) ride across.

Stay tuned. Thanks again for following us. Next stop, North Sydney, Nova Scotia.