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Next up was going to be driving from the east coast to the west coast, and lucky for me the first half of my trip I would have company! Claire was heading to the west coast at the same time I was, so we would drive together to Manitoba, then we would part ways and she would fly the rest of the way and I would mosey through the second half of Canada.

We left Halifax and our first camp spot was down a gravel road, driving along we came across a tree in the middle of it, which we both thought was pretty funny :P

Next up, back to PEI! First stop was we needed to go back to The Handpie Company to get some real good handpies, and then worked for a bit in a cafe in Charlottetown.

A big reason we wanted to come to PEI again was to head to MacAusland Woollen Mills and get a wool blanket and some yarn. And of course while we are at that end of the island, we had to visit the big potato... This was the joke that created a problem of me stopping at far too many large things as a "joke", but did it become to real? I don't know anymore...

After returning to New Brunswick, we headed down to explore the coast of the Bay of Fundy, Hopewell rocks was the first stop which was closed for the season, but we parked at the gate and walked in. In the parking lot a fella named Conner sparked up a conversation and joined us while exploring the trail.

In the Bay of Fundy National park we did a few hikes, including Dickson falls which was still partially covered in snow.

This was Claire's favourite camp spot, it was the side of a little winding coastal road with beautiful view of the St. Lawrence.

Birds! so many birds!

At work we had an online custard tart class, I of course do not have an oven so I made them on a campfire, the heat didn't work out as well as when I made bread, but I learnt more so next time it will be even better! Normally custard tarts would have that beautiful top, which I couldn't achieve with my method so they are pretty ugly on top, but hot damn they were still delicious!

We ate a whole lot of sourdough with hummus cheese and tomatoes, a reliable classic. We found the big loonie... so sorry Claire. And then we had lobster rolls with the lobster we got from Collin's in Alma 🦞

Passing along the coast of lake superior, we had to stop back to one of my favourite spots. Unfortunately this time I did get pretty sick, so I spent a lot of time laying down, but there are worse places to be while sick!

Stopping by Aguasabon Falls, it was certainly a powerful waterfall :O

Another fun camp spot was this boat launch that had a bunch of old fishing boats.

We went to Ouimet Canyon, but it was also closed so we had to park outside and walk in, it was quite the hill to walk in, and the trail hadn't been cleaned up from winter yet but still a lovely hike

We stopped and saw the Sea Lion which has eroded so it's missing it's head and looks more like an elephant to me now. And then we headed into Thunder Bay where we were going to meat up with Heather.

We had a great time in Thunder Bay with heather where we had some wine, went for pizza, went to the farmers market and lots of chats. Heather also gifted us some fiddleheads from her back yard so we cooked those up for dinner with some eggs on toast, everything else from the farmers market :)

To Kakabeka Falls! Another wonderful waterfall, this one was feeding a canyon where it use to be, and even had a smaller waterfall near by.

A big ol' mosquito carrying a person away... checks out...

And Vern's minnows! We let them keep the minnows for storage.

And we made it, the centre of canada! This was right before Winnipeg. We had a lovely meal at Clementine Cafe where we learnt Winnipeg has a pretty great food scene. And then there were some sad goodbyes as Claire boarded her plane to start her next adventure, well I continued on the next chapter of mine.