GREMLIN -- GASPE

“As our representative Canadian from the St. Lawrence seaway - - -


I was thinking of doing an auto-tour of the Gaspe Penninsula this summer with my family.

Wife, 2 boys ages 10 and 13.

Any perspective? Is it endless driving with quaint fishing village (okay for wife and me . ..not so much for the boys).


other stuff to do? Worth doing? Can you wrap Nova Scotia, new brunswick or PEI into this . ..or do that blow it up to an unmanagable size?”

“Forillon National Park is lovely.

Ile Bonaventure(?) is quite a sight.”

“bump”

“your wife is 2 years old?”

“I went from Fort Kent, ME to PEI on a whim once, and the drive was ~8 hours. I was by myself so didn't mind at all...I don't recall a lot that would ease the monotony of the long drive for two boys though.

Maybe pick one or the other.”

“Over the course of a 2 week vacation my wife and I spent a few days in Quebec City then drove up the Gaspe Peninsula then on to New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. We had a great time, but even with 2 weeks it was a lot of driving and if I were to do it again I would not try to cover that much ground. I'd spend more time in fewer places. It was a lot of quaint fishing villages and nice country side, which was great for us since we had no kids. Fort Louisbourg in Nova Scotia is a place a couple of boys might enjoy.”

“Twig-

8 hours from FT Kent?! Which is what .. . .another 100 hours from Portland?!!!


Conk -

Thanks also. That is about the route I was tentatively eyeballing. And it did look like a lot of driving with 2 kids.



CB -- commas. Know when to use them. Know when, not to.”

“Portland! is that in Maine???

:)”

“Pootland is prolly in Mane"
~Tweetigger

No it aint (I am sawry). Pootland is at Abalamma.”

“I don't know about Portland, but the lighthouse is in Maine. Of course, it's not in Portland, but Cape Elizabeth.

York is located in North Jersey.”

“We auto-toured the Gasp� peninsula before we had kids. It was fun because the ex and I speak French and we would stop and get a handle on the night life - Easterners are extremely social in a beery sort of way. We went cod jigging too.

Other than that the other posts are right on. Forillon Park is great for camping.

I'm not sure that a road trip is the best thing for young children.

I wouldn't do New Brunswick and Nova Scotia on the same trip.

Good luck,

Doug”

“you got mail, you crazy canuck”

“"cod jigging"?

Puh-leeze, must we hear about your sex life on a public forum?”

“You prefer private emails or breathy, hushed, late night phone calls?”

“Just keep your cod piece on there chicken rancher and leave the doodle-doo alone.
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“bimp”

“fnord!”

“Djibouti”

“Thanks, Lyra, and pfththththt to al you perverts.”

“I've done some jigging with my woodworking to accomplish specific tasks.”

“And we've shared a dram (or two) while doing it, er, sawing wood, eh? Uh, firewood.”

“Ha ha !!

How much is a dram, anyway?”

“The fluid dram is defined as 1⁄8 of a fluid ounce, which means it is exactly equal to

* 3.696 691 195 312 5 mL in the United States and
* 3.551 632 812 500 0 mL in the Commonwealth and Ireland.

In the United Kingdom, a teaspoon was formerly defined as 1 fluid dram.

Dram is also used informally to mean a small amount of liquid, especially Scotch whisky.”

“back at you

mark, you gots mail too.”

“Last I heard (from transplanted Irish), it was like a screwcap full.

As you were ---”

“Well....................screw that!!”

“That's about what I said, � LOL”

“You can say that again!”

“I can say what again?”

“A wee dram o scotch is whatever I say it is whenever I say it.”

“Yowzuh, mister Geo!!

Shall I bring the bottle, sir?”

“Yazzah, a wee dram o' a bottle!”

“YAHTZEE !

(oops --- nevermind)”

“That's Yangtze to you mister!”

“I always get those mixed up.”

“Good flick. I've seen all of it, but at different times. Never have sat through it from start to finish.”

“http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06205/708130-122.stm

Yup, I've never seen it from end-to-end either.

I like the scene where McQueen is teaching Mako how to operate the steam boilers in the engine room of the USS San Pablo.
"Stim, Stim!!"”

“Looks like they had a problem translating 'sandpebble' into French.

You knew Luke meant business when he whipped out that sabre! �

(it was the real McCoy)”