Welcome to the McCabe Family Nova Scotia 2017 Road Trip Travel Blog

Welcome to the McCabe Family Nova Scotia 2017 Road Trip travel blog.

This the fifth road trip we've taken in the last six years - in 2012, Clare, Conor, and I did a short jaunt to the site of the Johnstown Flood, the Horseshoe Curve, Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater and Cleveland's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame; in 2013, Clare, Conor, and I met up with Suzanne in Las Vegas, took in the sights, then headed to Grand Canyon National Park, and journeyed home through Sedona, the dust bowl and the Gateway Arch in St. Louis; in 2014, we all traveled to Tennessee, North Carolina and Great Smoky Mountains National Park; and in 2016, Clare, Conor, and I visited Michigan's Upper Peninsula, Bob Dylan's hometown of Hibbing, Minnesota, and Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota, met up with Suzanne in Billings, Montana, stayed two days in Yellowstone National Park, and logged more than 6,000 miles visiting other sites and national parks, including Devils Tower and the Badlands National Park.

We leave bright and early, Saturday, June 3, 2017, and return late, Friday, June 16, 2017, for a total of 14 days of road tripping to Montreal, Quebec City, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Island, the Bay of Fundy, Roosevelt-Campobello International Park, Acadia National Park, and Bar Harbor, Maine.

I traveled to Nova Scotia on a family road trip in 1973, with my dad, mom, four older sisters (Teresa, Monica, Clare, and Agnes), older brother Mark, and four younger brothers (Paul, Gerard, Peter, and Brendan). I also took a similar trip in the summer of 1988 before starting as a practicing attorney in Philadelphia. I'll have the chance to see if I can remember any of the sights from those two memorable trips.

Here are a few photos from the 1973 family road trip.

Gerard and Paul on the left, Peter and Brendan in front of me.

The whole gang (Teresa, Monica, Clare, Agnes, Mark, Chris [wearing #22], Paul, Gerard, Peter and Brendan) with Mom in the back and Dad taking the photo.

Monica, Paul, Peter, Agnes, Gerard and Teresa at Hopewell Rocks, Bay of Fundy

Paul, Gerard, and Brendan at the statue of the giant Angus Macaskill