Last Day of 2011 Odyssey

Peggy's Cove Lighthouse
Peggy's cove from a distance

Peggy's Cove
Group Photo


The last day of this Odyssey for 2011, took us along the Lighthouse Route from Lunenburg to Peggy’s Cove. What a great spot to finish a great trip. Peggy’s Cove is quite lovely and while it is full of tourists, it is a spot where I would like to spend more time. Actually, the last 3 days have been the most enjoyable and ones I would like to retrace at another time and with other people. It is probably good we didn’t start here, as I just might have stayed. Not far from this location is the memorial for Swissair Flight 111, that crashed of the coast here in 1996. One of the guests had a colleague that was on that flight.
Once again, I was on top of the van loading bikes, for our last drive to Halifax airport area. We did drive through Halifax to drop off a couple of people who were spending the night there before they flew out the next day. Much of the fun areas in Halifax are between the Citadel, on the hill and the waterfront, about 6-7 blocks away. ¼ of all of Nova Scotia’s 900,000 people live in this city.
What a great ride and a wonderful opportunity to get reconnected with people I spent 8 weeks last summer and to make and establish new friendships over the past two weeks. People have been helpful and supportive throughout the trip together.
We had a safe trip, with no accidents and only 9 flats for the whole two weeks. We saw some great scenery, met most graciuos hosts, and expereinced the influence of culture and history for the people who have called Nova scotia home for the past 400 hundred years.