Day 1 (October 9, 2020): Trinity and Cape Bonavista
It's Thanksgiving Weekend, pandemic edition. Having had to cancel four trips planned for western North America in recent months, we had hoped the required “14-day quarantine upon arrival back home" would have been lifted by now. So we booked one last attempt to fly west for this holiday weekend. Alas, it was not meant to be. So instead of taking off for Victoria, BC this morning, we took off for Newfoundland. The 8AM Air Canada Express Dash-8 service to St. John's was literally packed. But it was a smooth run all the way, and we didn't hear a single cough on board. (Always an encouraging thing to be able to report after a flight these days.) Landing on time at 10:15AM, we quickly completed the provincial government's Covid form, got a rental, and headed off to pick up Pam's mother. By 11:15AM we were on the road. The holiday weekend traffic was among the heaviest I have ever seen heading west on the Trans-Canada Highway. Despit...