Last week I took a sister’s trip to Nova Scotia! All of my mom’s family live in Annapolis Valley, and this is the first time we have been back in 25 years! It was an incredible week with a ton of emotions! One week is not enough time to see everyone and catch up on 25 years worth of stories with the aunties, uncles, and cousins. Too many feels. So I may be blogging a few times about my trip. But there are pictures to see. And the first thing I want to blog about, are the roads!
So, above was a photo that my sister took while I was driving. “Natalie, take a photo of the view! It’s beautiful!” “Natalie, take a photo of that, of that, did you take a photo of THAT?!” Little sisters (that’s me), am I right?!
I did a lot of driving on our trip, and what I found immediately, was how small their roads are! The cities and towns in this province were settled hundreds of years ago. Meaning the roads were built for horse and carriage, not big lumbering SUVs. The landscape is beautiful with woods everywhere, and the roads are narrow and winding as you travel over hill, after hill, after hill.
Plus the Atlantic on either side of the province. So picture a narrow, winding highway, with no shoulders, just a ditch right on the edge of the road, and then trees. AND the speed limit is 80 km/h, which feels WAY faster than it would on our roads. In SK and MB you have a town, and then massive fields of farmland between each town. In the Annapolis Valley, it feels like one continuous town that you pass (even though it’s a whole bunch of little ones) with hidden driveways, hidden hilltops, you name it.
I did great though, I got the hang of it, by the last day of our trip! Luckily I shared driving with one of my sisters. I’ll definitely have a blog or two about how amazing it is to be by the ocean, how it feels right in my bones! How seeing family, even after 25 years, it just felt right. But I will say, being home, on the prairies feels just as right!
LOOK AT ALL OF THAT SPACE! Oh how I missed it! -Tonya Cherry-
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