by jeff@lyonsroar.com | Apr 18, 2017 | Travel
Karen and I got up at 4:00am on Easter Sunday (4-16-2017) to attend the Sunrise service held below the Chimney Rock lookout in North Carolina. The entry gate to the park opened at 5:00am and closed at 6:00am to allow attendees to make their way to nature’s...
by jeff@lyonsroar.com | Sep 23, 2016 | Uncategorized
I’ve been tying to buy Karen a new car for some time now, but her 19-year-old Honda CRV still looks and runs great, so she has been reluctant to part with it. Saturday (9-17-16) we went to the 46th Annual Miami Auto Show to check out some possible new...
by jeff@lyonsroar.com | Sep 20, 2016 | Uncategorized
A dense mist hung in the air when we left the Four-Mile Beach Inn Thursday morning (9-1-16) and headed south down the Cabot Trail along the northeast coast of the Cape Breton Highlands National Park. At breakfast a couple from Halifax told us about a great hike...
by jeff@lyonsroar.com | Sep 19, 2016 | Uncategorized
Sunrise (8-31-16) at Pictou Lodge was everything we could have hoped for and then some. Getting up to admire the fiery ball also gave us an early start.
by jeff@lyonsroar.com | Sep 15, 2016 | Uncategorized
Tuesday (8-30-16) would be our longest driving day of many lengthy legs during this trip. From Cape St. Mary’s to Pictou Harbour we’d cover 268 miles. Of course we had lots of cool stops to make along the way.
by jeff@lyonsroar.com | Sep 14, 2016 | Uncategorized
It was overcast and chilly when we left Halifax and headed west down the South Shore region of Nova Scotia. Karen loves sunsets and I’d reserved a perfect perch atop ferocious cliffs on the Acadian Shores. We had many miles to travel and I held hope for clearing...
by jeff@lyonsroar.com | Sep 13, 2016 | Uncategorized
About an hour northwest of Halifax is Nova Scotia’s wine country. The Acadians used dykes and a drainage network to reclaim this coastal area with the highest tides in the world and create extremely rich farmland. The Grand Pre′ landscape and culture is a Unesco...
by jeff@lyonsroar.com | Sep 12, 2016 | Uncategorized
Karen and I set off on 8-26-16 for a 9-day exploration of Canada’s Maritime province Nova Scotia. Friday was a full day of travel with a lengthy delay in Philadelphia. We arrived in the provincial capital of Halifax, picked up a Mustang convertible at the...
by jeff@lyonsroar.com | Aug 20, 2016 | Uncategorized
Our good friend Haley took time after a long day at work to give Karen and me a private tour of the Miami Dolphins newly renovated stadium. Recently renamed Hard Rock, the Dolphins will have it made in the shade for 2016.
