Tom Kisko's Summer 07 Travels
I left home 4/18, two weeks at Kentucky Derby Festival(KDF), a few days in WV, RVed NY, MA, CT, NH, ME, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador. I left the RV in West Virginia and got back home on 9/4/07
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1 - I reached my goal, Labrador. Only took 3 months to get there.
2 - I started by towing the motorcycle to the RV, which was stored north of Albany for the winter.
3 - Stopped by the Kentucky Derby Festival, KDF, a two week event that started with an airshow
4 - 8 hours of almost everything the military had
5 - Inclucing the rarely seen B2 bomber
6 - This guy flew backwards under the bridge in a simulated rescue
7 - The air show continued past sunset to start the largest fireworks display in the country
8 - There were two barges going continuously
9 - And a bridge that went off frequently
10 - Quite a show
11 - Dollar day a the Louisville Zoo
12 - Orangutan, Louisville Zoo
13 - Orangutan, Louisville Zoo
14 - I guess Captain Hook got him, Louisville Zoo
15 - Bearded Dragons, Louisville Zoo
16 - Tiger, Louisville Zoo
17 - Elephant playing, Louisville Zoo
18 - East African Crowned Crane, Louisville Zoo
19 - Giraffe, Louisville Zoo
20 - Feed me, Louisville Zoo
21 - Rino, Louisville Zoo
22 - Malayan Tapir, Louisville Zoo
23 - The Kentucky State Capitol is in Frankfort
24 - KDF Balloon Festival
25 - 50 balloons in the race
26 - And I chased them down to landing
27 - Churchill Downs, opening day, a week before the derby
28 - Churchill Downs
29 - Churchill Downs
30 - Pre Steamboat Race activites
31 - KDF Steamboat Race
32 - Snow Leopard, Pittsburgh Zoo
33 - Lion, Pittsburgh Zoo
34 - Sevanna, Ted, Autum and Darcy at the Pittsburgh Zoo
35 - Enjoying the Zebras
36 - Ostridges, Pittsburgh Zoo
37 - Elephants, Pittsburgh Zoo
38 - Get off my back, Pittsburgh Zoo
39 - A really good a aquarium at the zoo
40 - Yes, it moves, Pittsburgh Zoo
41 - Penguins, Pittsburgh Zoo
42 - Jelly Fish, Pittsburgh Zoo
43 - Rays, Pittsburgh Zoo
44 - Polar Bear, Pittsburgh Zoo
45 - The rig, with the motorcycle mounted up front
46 - Albany Tulip Festival
47 - Albany Tulip Festival
48 - Albany Tulip Festival
49 - Albany Tulip Festival
50 - Albany Tulip Festival
51 - Albany Tulip Festival
52 - Albany Tulip Festival
53 - Albany Tulip Festival
54 - Albany Tulip Festival
55 - Albany Tulip Festival
56 - Albany Tulip Festival
57 - Christine, Joe and Bill with me at the Albany Tulip Festival
58 - Albany Tulip Festival
59 - Christine's pride in her front yard
60 - The Catskills
61 - And Woodstock
62 - Memorial Day campground bonfire in the Berkshires
63 - Aunt Vi
64 - Feral Cat at cousin Linnny's place
65 - House in Providence, Rhode Island
66 - Fall River, MA
67 - Bridge to Cape Cod
68 - Cape Cod light house and golf course
69 - Cape Cod
70 - Cape Cod
71 - Martha's Vinyard
72 - My campsite in Wells State Park, MA
73 - Laconia motorcycle rally
74 - Laconia motorcycle rally, beautiful countryside
75 - New Hampshire countryside
76 - Portsmouth Harbor entrance
77 - The new and old Penobscot bridges, Bucksport, ME
78 - Lamoine State Park, looks at Acadia National Park, 6 days here
79 - Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor from Cadillac Mountain
80 - Acadia National Park, wide view from Cadillac Mountain
81 - Acadia National Park, Bass Harbor Light House
82 - Four mast schonner I sailed on out of Bar Harbor, the Margaret Todd, 151'
83 - She is the only four masted schooner in the New England waters
84 - Manually hoisted sails, comes about with ease
85 - Acadia National Park, Southwest Harbor
86 - The biplane I flew in
87 - Lamoine Stae Park, my RV is he one front and center on the water
88 - Acadia National Park and Bar Harbor
89 - The Margaret Todd from the biplane
90 - Acadia National Park, Sand Beach and the Beehive, the steep cliff I later climbed
91 - Acadia National Park,view from the south
92 - Acadia National Park, Northeast Harbor light house
93 - Acadia National Park, south shoreline
94 - Bar Harbor 4th of July parade
95 - Well, it was the 4th of July
96 - Acadia National Park, Sand Beach from the Beehive
97 - The Beehive trail, climbs this face
98 - Acadia National Park
99 - Acadia National Park, Jordan Pond
100 - Acadia National Park, Jordan Pond frog
101 - Could have bought this Maine cottage for $90k. The next slide shows the backyard view.
102 - What a view. Not sure why I didn't buy it. BTW, that's Canada across the way.
103 - Kayaking back to my Keene's Lake campground near Calais, Maine
104 - Whitlock Mill Lighthouse, Calais, Maine
105 - St. Martins, New Brunswick, Canada, high tide
106 - St. Martins, New Brunswick, Canada, lowish tide
107 - Another covered bridge in St. Martins
108 - Brown's Beach, St. Martins
109 - St. Martins Caves
110 - St. Martins Caves
111 - St. Martins Caves, high tide
112 - My St. Martins campsite, caves across the bay
113 - Fog moves in
114 - Fundy Trail
115 - Fundy Trail
116 - Fundy Trail
117 - Fundy Trail
118 - Fundy Trail
119 - Fundy National Park
120 - Upper Bay of Fundy, high tide
121 - Upper Bay of Fundy, low tide
122 - Hopewell Rocks, low tide
123 - Hopewell Rocks, mid tide
124 - Now the kayaks can do their thing, but, still not high tide
125 - Hopewell Rocks, high tide, cannot kayak through the arch
126 - Hopwell Rocks
127 - Hopwell Rocks
128 - Hopwell Rocks, 40 ft. tide that day
129 - Hopwell Rocks
130 - Hopwell Rocks
131 - Hopwell Rocks
132 - Me at Hopwell Rocks
133 - Me kayaking Hopwell Rocks
134 - Tidal bore coming into Moncton, a real "tidal wave"
135 - My first night in Newfoundland, I left the RV on the mainland and took the 7 hr ferry
136 - Corner Brook, Newfoundland
137 - Corner Brook suburb
138 - Bay of Islands, Newfoundland
139 - Newfoundland, west coast
140 - Newfoundland moose
141 - Norstead, a Viking port
142 - Norstead, a Viking port
143 - Norstead, a Viking port
144 - Norstead, a Viking port
145 - Norstead, a Viking port
146 - L'Anse aux Meadows, where they discovered Viking remains from 1000 years ago
147 - L'Anse aux Meadows, reconstructed hut
148 - L'Anse aux Meadows from an adjacent hill. Norstead is off to the right.
149 - Griguet, north end of Newfounfland
150 - Iceberg
151 - Newfoundland northwest coast
152 - Newfoundland northwest coast
153 - Ferry to Labrador, half the size of the one to Nova Scotia
154 - Labrador
155 - Point Amour Lighthouse and a berg
156 - Earliest known funeral monument in the new world, 7500 years old. Near the lighthouse.
157 - Labrador
158 - Red Bay, Labrador
159 - Pinware River, Labrador
160 - Labrador coast, and yet another berg
161 - Charlie, keep an eye out for bergs
162 - Berg
163 - Berg
164 - Berg
165 - Berg
166 - Now back to Newfoundland at Gros Mourne National Park, GMNP
167 - GMNP, Western Brook, you will see more of this later
168 - GMNP, Green Point, from my campground
169 - GMNP, veiw from the point back to my campground
170 - GMNP, mouth of Bonne Bay
171 - GMNP, Lobster Cove Head Lighthouse
172 - GMNP, Sunset at Lobster Cove
173 - GMNP, panoramic of mountains
174 - Gros Mourne Mointain, from base camp, 4 mile hike to here
175 - GMNP, view from Gros Morne Mountain
176 - GMNP, still a way to go
177 - GMNP, from Norris Point
178 - GMNP, from Norris Point
179 - GMNP, Norris Point to Woody Point ferry, Tablelands in the background
180 - GMNP, Western Brook Pond, on a tour boat
181 - Western Brook Pond, check out the relative size compared to the other tour boat
182 - Western Brook Pond,
183 - Western Brook Pond,
184 - Western Brook Pond,
185 - Western Brook Pond,
186 - Western Brook Pond,
187 - Western Brook Pond,
188 - Western Brook Pond,
189 - Western Brook Pond, the end of the pond
190 - Western Brook Pond, Silhouette of a face, looking to upper left, chin-nose-forehead middle left
191 - Me at Tablelands
192 - Trout River, the community
193 - Trout River
194 - Wild orchid
195 - Wild orchids
196 - Tablelands
197 - Snow still there in late July
198 - GMNP, from the Discovery Center
199 - GMNP, from the resturant across from my B&B in Woody Point
200 - Whale, from the resturant
201 - Good night
202 - Leaving Newfoundland. What a great place!
203 - Nova Scotia, Cabot Trail
204 - Nova Scotia, Cabot Trail
205 - Nova Scotia, Cabot Trail
206 - Nova Scotia, Cabot Trail
207 - Nova Scotia, Cabot Trail
208 - PEI, the province of Prince Edward Island
209 - PEI
210 - PEI
211 - PEI bridge, I had alread driven 7 miles on the bridge when I took this picture
212 - The $112,000 lake house I looked in to buying in Lincoln, Maine
213 - On this lake. Did not buy because a paper mill was a mile away.
214 - I rode up Mt. Washington, the highest peak in the notheast, 6288'
215 - Steam train making its way up
216 - View from the top
217 - Mt. Washington
218 - White Mountains of New Hampshire
219 - From the Kancamagus Highway in the White Mountains
220 - Franconia Notch State Park, NH
221 - Franconia Notch State Park
222 - Franconia Notch State Park
223 - Quechee Gorge, Vermont
224 - Quechee Gorge
225 - Bill and Christine in Quechee Gorge
226 - Hershey's Kisses
227 - Gettysburg battlefield, about 8000 killed in the three-day battle
228 - Map - Lower half of trip routing
229 - Map - New England routing
230 - Map - Canada routing
231 - Trip Log - page 1 or 2
232 - Trip Log - page 2 of 2 - END OF SLIDE SHOW
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