Friday, 9/25 5:26 PM

Have just settled in at Oceanview Motel & Chalets in Cheticamp.  Have a chalet and am here for 3 nights; very glad to be it bit less on the move and have some space to hang out.  Have driven close to 1,200 miles since leaving home and except for last night changed lodgings every night.

Cabot Trail to Cheticamp

Need some time to re-group. Have to decide where I stay the first night when I leave here, next 2 are all set in Lunenburg.  Then also the 2 nights after Lunenburg, was considering Yarmouth.  Can't remember if I booked the ferry home or not, and think I want to change the plan. 

Am thinking all day on the ferry might be boring and I wouldn't even get a good rest in the "airplane" seat.  I will probably be better off to go back through Digby/Saint John and take 2 days to drive home.

Tomorrow is supposed to rain and I certainly hope so.  There is a Museum here of hooked rugs and other fiber arts that I want to see and also a Cape Breton Music event in the afternoon.  Sleeping in, late breakfast, short visit to museum, good music, simple supper and to bed sounds like a great way to spent the day. 

Then it's on the road again to tour the Cabot Trail for the next 2 days.  The further north I get on Cape Breton the more breathtaking it is.  Port Hood, Mabou, Inverness are very Gaelic.  Names on mailboxes and streets: Beaton, MacDonald, McInnis, Rankin, Fraser; I keep expecting Claire and Jaime (for my fellow Outlander fans) to appear.  No men in kilts, yet!

Cheticamp and this surrounding area seem to be very French.  Makes for a most interesting trip. 

Visited the Glenora  North America's first single malt distillery, of course!  Took the tour and was able to ask intelligent questions!  Shared with others on the tour my "experience" as a single malt tasting host.  Had a taste, smooth as silk. 




Had a leisurely lunch with great music in the pub, this time piano and guitar or mandolin. 

Met a really nice couple from Indiana and we chatted all through lunch.