We just completed the Down East Loop.
I kept up day-by-day blog posts on this web site.
Overall, we're both very glad we did this trip, and in some ways glad we won't have to do it again. We now know which parts we'd like to go back to and which ones we'd just as soon not.
I think the Down East Loop is more challenging than the Great Loop in a lot of ways. Much of it is very remote, and along the St. Lawrence, Gaspé and Northeast Nova Scotia, protected harbors are few and far between. Weather, currents and sea temperature are a lot less forgiving. This year that worked in our favor; while the rest of the country scorched, we had exactly two days when the temperature reached 90 F.
Another challenge is the calendar. There's so much to see, and so many places we'd like to spend more time.
I kept up day-by-day blog posts on this web site.
Overall, we're both very glad we did this trip, and in some ways glad we won't have to do it again. We now know which parts we'd like to go back to and which ones we'd just as soon not.
I think the Down East Loop is more challenging than the Great Loop in a lot of ways. Much of it is very remote, and along the St. Lawrence, Gaspé and Northeast Nova Scotia, protected harbors are few and far between. Weather, currents and sea temperature are a lot less forgiving. This year that worked in our favor; while the rest of the country scorched, we had exactly two days when the temperature reached 90 F.
Another challenge is the calendar. There's so much to see, and so many places we'd like to spend more time.