Last Day in Gander

this is what we did on August 14th....

We awoke to another sunny day! Boy, are we lucky. It’s supposed to rain tomorrow of course.

Our campground hosts cooked us a “Newfie” breakfast. It consisted of eggs, bacon, Newfie steak, brewis, and tauntons. Of course eggs and bacon are well known. Newfie steak is fried bologna.. Brewis is hard tack soaked overnight in water then cut up and fried with onions—interesting—they eat it with molasses. Tauntons are griddle fried pieces of bread dough—a cross between a pancake and French toast. It was actually pretty good. The cook says for lunch or dinner they would eat fisherman’s brewis –the same water soaked hard tack combined with salt cod and fried—hmmm.

We relaxed through the rest of the day. In the evening we got together and had a Mexican fiesta. Walking tacos, salsa, all the trimmings and margaritas--yummy. Guess that taste of Mexican food made us hungry for more. Actually, as we start to near the end of our time in Canada, we have to find ways to get rid of extra meat we are carrying because we can not bring it back into the US. The same goes for some of the tequila—too much to bring back without duty. Any excuse for a party!!

Tomorrow our destination is Botwood.