Come to Came…

 

This morning we left our AirB&B named “Come from Away”, stopping first (okay technically it was second because we’re traveling with two old men) at the Gander Aviation Museum which covers everything from the airport’s development in the 1930s as a site for refueling the first planes flying between Europe and the US. It became critical during WWII as the gateway for planes built in the US and needed for the war in Europe. After the war it became an important domestic airline hub. We all know it because of the generosity of the folks in Gander taking into their homes the 7,000 passengers who became grounded here after 9/11. At that time the population of Gander was under 10,000. That’s Judy in the photo with Commander Gander. She wanted to bring him home but there just wasn’t room.

We lunched in Trinity which has been described as the “prettiest” village in Newfoundland. I wish I’d been able to get a better photo because most of the historic buildings are painted in bright colors. Eye candy!

This is the puffin viewing site in Elliston (if you have really good vision). The puffins are out on that rock island you see in the distance. There were two problems. One - John forgot and left his binoculars at the AirB&B in Bonavista called “Came from Away”. Two - the puffins have already left for their winter quarters. Seeing puffins is sort of like seeing moose. Not likely. However, we did see another part of a moose sticking out of the back of a pickup this morning and my 3 traveling companions had moose soup for supper. PS - Bonavista is where John Cabot landed in 1497 thus “discovering” Newfoundland sort of like Columbus “discovered” America. Both were trying to find Asia.

Word of the day…curwibble - unsteady or teetering motion “such as those caused by too many glasses”.

The four of us often curwibble when we get out of the car if we’ve ridden too long between stops.