Newfoundland
Wife and I would like to travel to St John's Newfoundland this coming June (2014). I've searched the Newfoundland website, used GoodSam trip making software, but none of them give enough information. ...
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Jim & monica, my wife and I just spent over three months traveling in Newfoundland in our MDT, large 5er with a tote for our Smart Car. It was a trip of a lifetime and I would put it right up there with Alaska. The ferry is expensive but we decided from the getgo to stay long enough to get our monies worth out of the trip. The roads are good but at times can get ruff and you just need to slow down when they do. The last thing you want to happen is have a breakdown in Newfoundland. We arrived in Newfoundland in early June at Port Au Basque taking the short ferry due to traveling with our two dogs. We traveled the west side of the Island up to the northwest to St Anthony the first month and were able to get one of our "bucket list" check off several times seeing Iceburgs. We also took a trip to Labrador leaving our RV in St Barbe and taking the ferry over and staying in a B&B a couple of nights. The one thing we did not need is 50 amps due to the cool weather. During the months of July and August which is their tourist season we did have problems finding campgrounds to stay in. Almost all of them are filled with seasonal campers and there are very few site for traveling RV'er like us especially on the weekends. Also we are setup to boondock and we found no places to boondock other Walmart which we used but they are few and far between. We are not into the tourist trap thing and found the beauty of the Island remarkable. The hidden treasure of Newfoundland is the small coves and harbours at the end of its many roads. We drove every hard surface road and some of the gravel on "The Rock" and it was impressive. So don't let the expensive of the ferry keep you from enjoying a trip to "The Rock" (Newfoundland) in your RV. Stay long enough to see it. We met a lot of travelers that were only driving from one side of the island to the other on the Trans Canadian Highway in a few days or trying to see everthing in a week or two.
"Happy Trails"
Chiefneon
Jim & monica, my wife and I just spent over three months traveling in Newfoundland in our MDT, large 5er with a tote for our Smart Car. It was a trip of a lifetime and I would put it right up there with Alaska. The ferry is expensive but we decided from the getgo to stay long enough to get our monies worth out of the trip. The roads are good but at times can get ruff and you just need to slow down when they do. The last thing you want to happen is have a breakdown in Newfoundland. We arrived in Newfoundland in early June at Port Au Basque taking the short ferry due to traveling with our two dogs. We traveled the west side of the Island up to the northwest to St Anthony the first month and were able to get one of our "bucket list" check off several times seeing Iceburgs. We also took a trip to Labrador leaving our RV in St Barbe and taking the ferry over and staying in a B&B a couple of nights. The one thing we did not need is 50 amps due to the cool weather. During the months of July and August which is their tourist season we did have problems finding campgrounds to stay in. Almost all of them are filled with seasonal campers and there are very few site for traveling RV'er like us especially on the weekends. Also we are setup to boondock and we found no places to boondock other Walmart which we used but they are few and far between. We are not into the tourist trap thing and found the beauty of the Island remarkable. The hidden treasure of Newfoundland is the small coves and harbours at the end of its many roads. We drove every hard surface road and some of the gravel on "The Rock" and it was impressive. So don't let the expensive of the ferry keep you from enjoying a trip to "The Rock" (Newfoundland) in your RV. Stay long enough to see it. We met a lot of travelers that were only driving from one side of the island to the other on the Trans Canadian Highway in a few days or trying to see everthing in a week or two.
"Happy Trails"
Chiefneon
