You know, there are some dirt roads in Ontario.  Just sayin'    Have fun!

Quote from: Laurie on August 22, 2018, 12:56:18 AM
Hi ladies,

  A late start is better than no start. And 350 miles is pretty good for such a late start. The important part is that you two are together for this delightful outting.  The joy is derived from traveling with the one you love and in meeting with friends along the way. Though I tend to emphasize the distance, it really isn't about that.
  Enjoy the trip and know you two are loved by those you touch.

  Hugs,
   Laurie






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Aww Laurie, I love it when you get mushy.

I'll be posting more on my own thread, but I am so indescribably honored to have been part of such a beautiful event. Here are some of my favorite pictures:


Pic courtesy Jessica Rose






There are so many more wonderful memories to share in pictures, but these have me weepy enough. I'll do the heavy-duty crying over in my own thread so I don't make things soggy here.

Stephanie

The end of day two or at least not planning to go anywhere else tonight. We made it out of Nebraska, through Iowa (my home state), and to Princeton, Illinois today. Lots of I-80, corn fields, rolling hills and talk. Most of the road trips we have taken had the format of T doing the driving and I would read a book aloud to us. So far Anne of Green Gables hasn't been started. I thought that would be a good one since we are headed to Prince Edward Island, Canada first and it was written there. It is a classic that I read when I was a girl but it must not of grabbed me since I only read it once. I was way more in to Nancy Drew. Today the skies were way less smoky then yesterday and I had less eye burn but I think Tia is still dealing with allergies. I know both of us were ready to get off the road this evening. Still working at getting into the swing of traveling. I'm sure that by October we should be pros. Have you produced any training videos, Laurie, on the correct way to road trip? I know you often speak of dirt roads and no plans. We haven't figured either of those rules out yet. Signing off for tonight. Deb

The Tia and Debi Honeymoon Road Trip Map is up and ready for your tracking pleasure. Enjoy!

Stephanie

When you head north from I-80 toward Detroit, you can either take US-23 or I-75. If you take US-23, just after you cross the Michigan line, at about mile marker 5, you will pass a rest area. On the other side of the highway, where the power lines cross, is the airport I used to fly my ultralights out of. If you then continue up US-23 and go east on I-94, approximately 6 miles down the highway on the south side of the road you'll pass Ford Lake. 1/4 mile past there, one street short of the pedestrian walkway over the highway (which I walked every day to junior high school) is my childhood home, right behind the strip mall. The building that looks like an A&P grocery store was in fact the A&P grocery store where I had my first full-time job out of high school, in 1977.

Ah, old memories. And I do mean old...

Stephanie

Today is day three of our grand honeymoon trip and we are traveling through areas of both the US and Canada that I have never traveled in before. It is fun to seeing new areas of both countries.

Steph, we did travel through your old stomping grounds, truly a beautiful area.

We have made it to London, Ontario and have bedded down for the night. The day started in Princeton IL, driving through miles and miles of corn fields.....and those fields continued all the way up into Canada. The further north we got the more deep woods encroached on the fields and we have been getting glimpses into what these great north woods must have been like a few hundred years ago. In some places they almost feel like they have a presence of their own. I hope to have a chance to hike is some of the forest lands before getting back to the more populated parts of civilization.

One drawback to traveling in Canada is that our cell phone carrier has no contracted towers here so our phones are useless. Takes traveling back to the good old dark ages...tomorrow we will search out a Canadian road atlas.

So far on this trip, everyone we have talked with has celebrated with us in the honeymoon of a couple crazy married ladies.

My pillow is calling me so we will post more tomorrow.....and one of these posting will contain pictures, I promise.

Kathy, take warning. We are now in Canada and just a couple of provinces away and heading east. Not to worry, we don't threaten refrigerators but will try to find some chocolate to share.

Tia Anne & Debi

Thank you Stephanie for getting a map up for tracking our travels. We made it to London Ontario before stopping for the night. We crossed over the border at Port Huron. These lovebirds have very tired wings tonight.

A good solution for international data service on your smart phone is to buy a local SIM card.  You probably don't care about voice (much), but if you get 1 GB of data, that will get you your maps, restaurant lookups, etc.  Since you'll be in Canada for awhile it might be worthwhile.  Prepaid SIM cards are usually cheap, on the order of $15 or so.  Often the store will put it in for you.  7-11's and similar shops often sell these.

Hi love birds,

   Go to see you two still moseying on down  the road. I hope you have practiced your "ehhhs" enough. You do realise the won't know what you are talking about without them.

  Happy trails to you...

Hugs,
  Laurie

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Welcome to Canada! 

Quote from: Anne Blake on August 23, 2018, 09:42:45 PMNot to worry, we don't threaten refrigerators but will try to find some chocolate to share.

Now you're talking my language!!

Well yesterday was a nightmare. The traffic was hideous. The GPS tried to reroute us into the US through Niagara Falls. We turned her off.(After looking at the map today and knowing what traffic was like yesterday I now see what she was trying to do.) Anyway, I got us lost after hours of stop and go traffic, frustration on both our parts and enough tension between the two of us to have Tia suggest putting me on a plane home. I really don't enjoy flying. Anyway we scrapped getting to the place we had reserved in Drummondville and finally found a place in Cornwell. That wasn't easy either since there is some big dog show going on here and we didn't get in until after 9:30 p.m. A very nice young lady took pity on us and called around to find somewhere that still had an open room. Ended up at the NAV Center which use to be an old navigation training center. (Stephanie, they have a flight board that shows all the flights in the air right behind the check in counter.) The fact that it was a training center means it is laid out like an old school dormitory with very, very narrow hallways that feel like tunnels leading you into the netherlands and tiny rooms. We both have a room with a bed but the space is confining. Tia has claustrophobe. What I didn't mention was that about 8 p.m. while trying to get directions to get us unlost, I tripped and took a hard fall onto a petrol station floor and have a bad pain on my left side which is still not showing a bruise this morning. By the time we found beds last night we were both hurting puppies and I am afraid were not acting like the love birds that Laurie claims we are. Hoping to reclaim the title today. Signing off for yesterday. Deb 

Wow Debi, every trip has to have one of those days. Now you have it behind you. It is especially tough when you are tired. Take a deep breath and get some ice on your back. I have back issues and drive long distances with ice on mine. It really helps with the muscles. Just be safe.
Moni

I'm so sorry about the high-traffic stressful day. I suppose it was a Friday thing. I hope today is better!

Maybe you needed navigational help from Laurie. She'd have put you onto quiet, gravel roads. Still would have taken just as long, but as least no traffic!  Take care and I hope it becomes enjoyable again today.

I am sorry to hear about the traffic and stress yesterday.  Good idea to stop at Cornwall rather than pushing on to Drummondville.  It is not a good idea to try to get around two metropolises in one day.  I hope you have an easier time of it today!

Quote from: Anne Blake on August 02, 2018, 06:23:35 PM
Greetings one and all to the inaugural post of the "Deb and Tia's Grand Wedding Adventure".

My lovely bride, Debi, and I will celebrate our wedding ceremony on the 11th of August (just nine days, oh no....so much to get done!!!). We have been blessed in that several sisters from Susan's will be joining this celebration with us. A bit over a week after that day we will begin a month plus long honeymoon road trip to the east coast. It is our intention to try to do as much of the east coast as that hurricane abused section of land allows, from Nova Scotia to Key West. One or the other of us will be posting updates and pictures of this grand adventure as time allows.

Please stay tuned to this thread to watch the drama unfold.

Tia Anne & Debi

BTW: if any of you along our path (Colorado, Nova Scotia, Key West, Colorado) care for a visit from a couple of crazy old ladies, please pm me.

Oh my! I'm sorry I didn't see this thread earlier. I am so happy for you both. I hope I didn't get here too late? I need the afternoon to start at the beginning and catch up.

Hugs,
Donica.

It was wise to stop at Cornwall rather than trying to get through Montreal on a Friday evening!

I'm sorry this was so stressful for you two. I'm slowly learning how to do lower stress travel from Laurie, but it is very different from how I learned and the way most people are comfortable traveling.

My hope is that this will be a minor glitch in your honeymoon and could be something to laugh at when all is done. I've learned that loving one another is more important than the place one is in.



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Thank you all for your well wishes and hopes for happiness, it must have paid off as today was much better. Our attitudes are much better, the only fighting we did today was who got which donut at Tim Horton's. Deb won but we are not so sure about her injuries from her fall yesterday, possibly a cracked rib. We are going to wait and see how it plays out and I get to carry the luggage for a while.

Last night we stayed at a place called the Nav. It is/was affiliated with the aviation industry and was or maybe still is a training facility for air traffic controllers and possibly a bunch more. Scattered around the grounds were all type of airfield hardware, especially a bunch of antennas and radar equipment, presumably training hardware. It looked like a place that some of our aviation fanatics and radio heads (Michelle, is that an acceptable term?) might enjoy.

We headed north east along the Saint Lawrence waterway until we were stopped by large bodies of water and had to turn east south east. The scenery was beautiful and the conversation was great, for a couple of crazy and moderately broken down ladies on a road trip....we still haven't made it to "Thelma and Louise" levels but we still have four or five thousand miles yet to go.

I missed Woodstock when I was younger so I thought that I might try it now. We pulled into Woodstock New Brunswick for the night but no one here has seen hide nor hair of Jimmy Hendrix. In the morning we plan to head over to Cavendish Prince Edward Island for a couple of nights before dropping down to Nova Scotia to visit our favorite astrophotographer.

Enough for now though Deb may chime in with her own observations in a bit.

Hugs to you all,
Tia Anne

Hi you two,

  I am so glad today was much better than yesterday. I saw so many chiming in with their condolences that I felt I didn't need to add mine. I probably would have said something wrong anyway, so I left it at saying nothing at all. I will say that your distress gave me a bit of sympathetic distress too. I know you two are human, but I just cannot imagine you two at odds with each other. Now you two just cut it out. Do you hear me? Cut it out. No more rifts in the harmony of the universe.
  I hope Deb's pain is nothing more than bruised ribs. They can feel as bad as a crack of break. Take it easy on her for a few days and if it doesn't improve take her to see a doctor.

  Harmony and bliss from here on out and give that perky Canadian a hug for me when you see her. Take a look at the top of her fridge and see if it is clean. It will need to be before I get there and I will get there.

Love and Hugs,
  Laurie

DAY FIVE
A special Hi to Donica for joining us on our adventures. I assure you that you are not too late to follow us through our adventures and misadventures (yesterday). I am hoping for less days like that one. Hopefully soon we will start posting pictures. Thank you to all who posted shots of the wedding. As someone else says on this site, "didn't happen if there are no pictures." Wish someone could get my ribs to believe that. I spent most of the day with my seat back napping. Tia drove us though some very pretty countryside, most of it along the St Lawrence River, but I admit to missing most of it. There were a few roads I saw when I was awake that Laurie would of loved. We didn't take any of them though. Just looked down them. Lots and lots of deep woods in this area. We are now traveling south along the Trans Canadian Highway and tomorrow will follow it east across New Brunswick to Cavendish, Prince Edward Island. The plan is to have a couple of days there, where I hope to be able to catch up on photo work and be able to do some actual photography. Taking shots as I ride in a car is not for me and we have spent a lot of time in the car to get where we are. Stay tuned pictures are on the way.


Deb signing out for tonight