1July2009
Posted by Melanie under: New York; Northeast; The Americas; Thousand Islands; USA.
Continued from Thousand Islands: More Than Just Dressing
Shortly after Adam and I met back in 1994, he mentioned his mom’s family had an island…that his grandfather had pretty much won in a poker game.
This little gem, which we’ve visited together four times in the past 15 years, is Long Rock Island on the St. Lawrence River in upstate New York’s Thousand Islands. A collection of vintage Arts and Crafts-era buildings nestled all over few small acres, Long Rock is a quiet and breezy trip back in time. It also serves to tell some of the story of my mother-in-law’s family.
We leave today to spend a few days there with Adam’s Uncle Jim and Aunt Buzz, and we can hardly wait. Read the rest of this entry »
30June2009
Posted by Melanie under: British Columbia; Canada; Sooke; The Americas; Vancouver Island.
Continued from Driving to Port Renfrew and Walking Botanical Beach
After an afternoon finding our way across Vancouver Island from east to west (via the Harris Creek logging road near Duncan), Adam and I had hiked the Botanical Beach Loop of the San Juan de Fuca Marine Trail and were hungry for dinner.
We were also dangerously near Sooke Harbour House.
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29June2009
Posted by Melanie under: Botanical Beach; British Columbia; Canada; The Americas; Vancouver Island.
Continued from Sidney by the Sea
On a chilly, gray late-May 2008 day on British Columbia’s Vancouver Island, we set out to somehow reach the west side of the island.
It should be said that doing this is not necessarily easy, and few locals even know how.
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26June2009
Posted by Melanie under: British Columbia; Canada; The Americas; Vancouver Island.
Continued from Salt Spring Island
In late May 2008 on British Columbia’s Vancouver Island, we took the Crofton ferry to Salt Spring Island, then the Swartz Bay ferry back across to Sidney by the Sea.
Sidney by the Sea is a pretty big town for Vancouver Island. There are new apartment complexes going up all over, and the central shopping district has several blocks of businesses rather than just one or two. Built around the sea, as advertised, the town actually sprawls far and wide along the highway, stretching from a small facsimile of a 1960’s Florida retirement village into a semi-rural community.
We’d come here to taste cider — the fermented kind, that is. Read the rest of this entry »
25June2009
Posted by Melanie under: British Columbia; Canada; Salt Spring Island; The Americas; Vancouver Island; Wine Countries.
Continued from
Touring Farms and Wineries on Vancouver Island
and
Amuse Bistro on Vancouver Island
Salt Spring Island is a perfect day trip from the southern edge of Vancouver Island in British Columbia.
Take your car across by ferry and either wend your way straight across, stopping to taste local wine, cheese, and baked goods, shop for t-shirts and stuff from the Far East, or just have a good time getting as lost as you can…on an island.
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Continued from Thousand Islands: More Than Just Dressing
