We are officially on our way home! We have driven as far East as this trip will take us, and so now we must turn around. In fact we are over 1000 kilometers further from home in our own country, than we were at the very Southern most tip of the Florida Keys in the U.S. Having said that, we are still 6,800 kms from home (including 180 kms of open sea for which we must again take a ferry!) As the Arrogant Worms so eloquently sing, "We're the second largest co...

One of my earliest memories of radio and T.V. was that whatever event was to happen was always announced to be one half hour later in Newfoundland. Hockey Night in Canada was Saturday night at 6:00 - 6:30 in Newfoundland! It was a most peculiar thing but I never questioned it. I never have and to this day have no idea why Newfoundland is on neither Atlantic nor Greenland time but maintains it own half hour difference from the world. Now here I am, living th...

The roughness of the Cabot Trail was merely a warm up for the blustery 7 hour ferry crossing to Newfoundland! My land-legs are short enough but my sea-legs are unquestionably less than adequate. We were a poor lot by the time we landed in Port Aux Basque. In contrast, however, I've never seen more solid ground than that of Newfoundland. There's a saying here, that God created the earth in six days. On the seventh, He sat down and threw rocks at it, and c...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY EDEN. 16 years ago, at 4:00 in the morning (4:30 in Newfoundland!) you began the long awaited process of your arrival. 14 hours later you showed up with such a lock of red hair, even Elizabeth, your midwife, forgot to look at the clock. We think you came between 6:00 and 6:15! The smallest of the Smithlings, you weighed only 8lbs 9 oz. and you've been a bit of a surprise ever since...