The Adventures of Sunsette -- Our PEI souvenir (July 11)

[Alliecat]

"Hi friends!
"We STILL have to finish up Chapter 3 of our Texas trip, plus a NB one from March.  But we're skipping ahead a bit for now because we're on another adventure.
"The PTFCo First Property Recon Team is in PEI!  After two increasingly despairing years of searching for a new home, Mum is just about ready to tell Nova Scotia to get stuffed. Maybe we don’t wanna live there anyway. So we are ex-panding our search. We saw the bridge for the first time in March on an adventure we haven’t posted yet, but now we've had our first drive over it.
"The plan was to drive around and have a look at things -- does it feel like a place we'd like to live?"



"It's funny how you never know where things will lead.  How much significance should you attach to a moment, when it could be just an ordinary event, or a New Beginning?  Sometimes you don't know something is a beginning until much later when you look back and realize it was a turning point that became a new path.
"Anyway, here we are on the bridge.  It's 12.9 km long and it took 15 minutes to drive across it!"



"We stopped to observe the moment at the Borden-Carleton landing point.  The lighthouse was an old range light that was relocated to this little history park."



"Too bad he's backlit, but this statue of 'The Quartermaster' is in honour of the marine and rail workers of the past."



"Mum said, a bit tongue-in cheek, that we were gonna do our own Grand Tour ex-pedition, 'minus the car falling apart.'
"WELL.  In classic Grand Tour style.... we have car trouble.  Barely an hour after getting Yet Another Compliment on How Great It Is, Mum's lil car began to whine.  Looks like the front brake caliper is sticking.  It offered up an intermittent mechanical moan and got very hot.  We're at least a bit pleased with ourselves for figuring out basically what was wrong.  And we drove with that for another couple of hours. 
"Also in classic Grand Tour style, the only garage that would take us in an emergency is a complete DIVE.  Inex-plicably, it has a crapload of 5-star reviews.  And it was the closest.  Dude doesn't say much but says he can get a part next-day.  (If he doesn't, we're screwed again.)  He jury-rigged it loose a bit so Mum was able to drive some more, to get to her appointment.  Clarkson, Hammond and May would be proud of us."



"However, UNlike Clarkson, Hammond and May, we DO care that our car doesn't end up wrecked at the end of the episode.  So there went today's drive plan.  We limped back through Charlottetown, Mum went for a walk, wherein another disadvantage of scrapping the drive plan became apparent as it evolved into $pending Moneyz.
"We went to the waterfront park, only to find out you can't actually go right to the water.  There's all these big rough rocks which aren't even nice to sit on."



"Wildfire smoke from out west is making the sky hazy.  The sunsets have been pretty."



"I mean, how fun is this?  Parked on a side street in Charlottetown to let the brakes cool down, Mum is simultaneously a) eating lunch, b) making news calls, c) finding somewhere to stay for a couple more nights cos our Airbnb will be booked, d) getting our plant-waterer on call, e) figuring out how to salvage the rest of the day."



"Mum does not need more t-shirts.  But she said this was apropos."

"More pix on the camera hopefully to be added when we get them downloaded... sometime."

"Thanks for reading!
"Love, Sunsette  "