The Homecoming

Home Again

And so, here we are once again in my favourite place in the world, Nova Scotia.  After a glorious drive through the remainder of New Brunswick, we crossed the border about 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon and are now booked into our spot at Scotia Pine Campground just south of Truro.  It's wonderful to be back and it is fortunate that we seem to be bringing the good weather with us.  It's been cold and rainy here for the past couple of weeks but the forecast for the next several days is warm and sunny - which it is out there this morning.

Stoney Creek Cemetery

Yesterday, at the start of our journey we had the chance to visit the cemetery at Stoney Creek, not far from Moncton where many of our Rogers ancestors are buried.  After proceeding through a gate just off the highway, we drove down a little winding trail through the woods for about a kilometre.  As I am pondering how I'm going to back the motor home back up the road, we came out into a pristine little clearing where the cemetery lay, surrounded by a chain fence.  It was a tiny place with maybe 30 or so graves, but considering its isolation, very well taken care of.  I often feel that there are special cemetery angels out there who take care of our ancestors with loving care and respect and I thank them every time I come upon such a scene.

We had a wonderful time, photographing the various stones and figuring out who each one was.  Unfortunately we were unable to find the grave of my 3rd Great Grandfather, James Rogers who was buried there in 1816.  His youngest daughter married John Bragg from England and Windham Hill, Nova Scotia and was the grandmother to a long line of Braggs over the centuries.

Maxine

Our new motto has become WWMD - What would Maxine do?  Maxine is the crabby old lady of cartoon and book fame who has a rather cynical outlook on life and she always makes us giggle.  There is an enormous zip line over the Reversing Falls in Saint John.  We figured that Maxine would say something like this about that:  "What is the harness on the zip line for?  To keep the Depends in place!"

Today we plan to do a bunch of boring stuff like grocery shop and clean up the motor home and then tomorrow we're off touring again.

To be continued....................