Well we made it to the bottom of the Cabot Trail on Cape Breton - foggy and misty along the way. Again tried to kill some time in a cute place along the way. I had mussels - the local in thing and we bought some things in a great little gift shop there. Only other people in the place were a couple from Newfoundland who really talked it up and even suggested a route for us to take so reconsidered briefly - and then decided not for us. Not enough bang for the buck. It's a long way by ferry and lots of km between places.
We stopped in the Alexander Graham Bell Center in Baddock. Nice view from the center -see picture- again with the fog. AGB was big into tetrahedrons so see them throughout museum. Picture is of hangings in the main lobby of the plane he built 4 years after the Wright Brothers who built theirs in secret - so the story here goes. So his was the first in Canada/Britain. You can see AGB and his wife Mabel in the corners. She was the businesswoman, came from wealth, and was deaf. Seems like he just liked to tinker and she tried to make a business out of his ideas. Before marrying her he worked as a teacher of the deaf - how they met, she was one of his private pupils. He was applying a technique developed by his grandfather for the deaf to speak. As far as inventions go, really he just worked on improving existing things like xrays and he did develop a metal detector when they couldn't find the bullet in Garfield when he was shot. He was in litigation for 8 years over patent for the phone so doesn't sound like that was totally his idea either.
Also built a hydrofoil boat for use in the WWI but the war ended before anyone used it so it was just left to rot on the beach. What is left is in museuam and they built a reproduction.
The sun came out so we headed up the east side of the Cabot Trial which everyone brags about. And the views are wonderful - but they are views very similar to all of the other rocky coast, wooded sea views and just as limited by fog, etc. Road was terrible and this is a major tourist region. We had to go very, very slowly. So we decided to turn off at the point of last resort (if we didn't we would either have to find a place to turn around and do the bad roads again, or keep on going all away around the cape). We took this small ferry across an inlet so we could go back to a better highway.
So we are Cabot Trail dropouts. It was just too much for us old fogeys (how do you spell that?) to go all around the cape on such bad roads. We are back near Baddock in an ok camp on the water. The woman at registration said we were the second rv today who came back from the trail saying it was too bad to do. That made us feel a little better.
Jack and I have decided we will do Prince Edward Island and then back our way towards Montreal. At Montreal we will decide whether to head south through New York back to FL or cut across to Mich. If we get to Mich we will decide whether to head south from there or continue on to Dubuque and then south. To be honest, it depends on the quality of roads between here and Montreal.
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