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Tancook island is served by ferry from Chester. It runs frequently and takes about 45 minutes, and it is free! After Tancook, we drove back to Halifax.
After visiting the cousins – Janet and Jean – we started our drive to Chester. We first stopped at Grand Pre, the site of Acadian expulsion from Nova Scotia, then Evangeline Beach, and finally the waterfront in Chester.
As we drove from Yarmouth to Melvern Square, Omi mentioned that Annapolis Royal was a town she remembered from her visits as a child to Nova Scotia near where cousins Janet and Jean lived on a farm with their parents Ellen and Garnet. Garnet would take his products to market to Middleton and maybe sometimes…
The main reason for our drive to Yarmouth was to visit the Chebogue church and especially the cemetery at Chebogue point, where our relatives are “at port” overlooking the Chebogue marsh and harbor. An important and meaningful place for our family. The church here is where Hubert McNeill led the congregation.
On the way from Summerville center to Yarmouth we made a stop at the schoolhouse in Birchtown , now a museum about the settlement of Black Loyalists there. These were people from the southern slave-holding colonies who had joined the British side against the revolutionaries. For their service the Loyalists were given a promise of…
Day three took us from Mahone Bay to Lunenburg. He hoped to see the Bluenose II schooner, but she was out to sea for one more day. We did see the vessels at the wharf and walked along the scenic and historic waterfront on Lunenburg. We read about the Acadians who were the first to…
We went south from Halifax, entering a landscape of piney forests intermixed with lakes and marshes, finally giving way to a seashore of pale granite rocks and calm waters. The village was enshrouded in fog that gradually retreated from shore, revealing the fishing vessels that would be at home in Chatham – except that we…
Omi and I had been talking for a year about going up to Nova Scotia and seeing the place of her birth, visiting her beloved relatives Janet and Jean (second cousins, once removed) in Melvern Square, seeing the location of her grandfather’s church in Chebogue, and her grandmother’s house in Yarmouth, where she spent many…
We fell into a healthy routine in Kyoto. We would identify a gorgeous temple worth visiting, then we’d out mostly on foot, but sometimes train, and sometimes taxi to find it. In the process we walked 7 or 8 miles a day, sometimes more. Abby and me on the grounds of Higashiyama, a Zen temple…
While Omi was settling down in Mashpee for the summer, Abby, Satkirin and I headed to Japan to celebrate Abby’s graduation from high school and her upcoming college fun at UCSB. We flew from San Francisco to Tokyo on United. Here is a photo of Abby settling in to the flight. After arriving in Tokyo,…
Omi's Travels 