Monday, September 25, 2023 - today we drove from the Stonehurst RV Campground in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada to Prince Edward Island and the Cornwall KOA near Charlottesville, Prince Edward Island, Canada. The drive was about 2.5 hours with good weather and some clouds. We did have a couple insignificant sprinkles along the way. We also crossed the seven mile long Confederation Bridge that ties PEI to the mainland. No toll going in, but on our exit, the toll will be in the $80 (Canadian) range.  This bridge is named after the Confederation meeting that was held in Charlottestown with New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, PEI, and other provinces to put together a charter to ask Great Britain to allow her colony to become a separate country. England acquiesced and allowed Canada to form, so the named the bridge after that Confederation meeting.

The Cornwall KOA is about a mile off the main road and has excellent views of the West River Estuary which is a large bay that leads out to the Atlantic Ocean. We arrived at low tide and were able to eat lunch while watching the tide roll in. Our parking spot has a wooden desk with a glass picnic table and six chairs. There is also a full-size barbeque on the deck too. This is a very nice RV park and it is costing us about $48 per night with full hookups. This is a pretty good price. The season is winding down and this RV park may close soon.

We drove into Charlottesville to do a little shopping and to check out the downtown wharf area. We walked around the town and stopped into the Catholic Basilica. This church is pretty amazing with beautiful, stained glass windows. We bought ice cream and looking into several shops including one that dealt more specifically with the books Anne of Green Gables that is based in this area.

Tuesday, September, 26, 2023 - Today, we started the day with breakfast at McDonald's and then drove to a place called "Park Corner" where we found the house where Lucy Maud Montgomery, the author of Anne of Green Gables was born. It is a museum now and we stopped to look through the house. It was interesting to be standing in the same room where she was born. There are still many of the artifacts in the house that were there when she was born in 1874. Her mom, Clara MacNeil Montgomery, died jut 22 months after Lucy was born. She lived in this house for a while and then moved in with her grandparents when her father moved "west" to Saskatchewan, Canada. Lucy began writing at an early age and wrote for the rest of her life. After her grandfather died, Lucy came home to take care of her grandmother for thirteen years who was suffering from issues associated with old age. Lucy's grandmother died in 1911, and Lucy then got married. Lucy Maud Montgomery had been secretly engaged to Ewen MacDonald, the minister, for over five years. She then married MacDonald and had four children with him, one of which died at birth. She married this minister in the home that belonged to her aunt and uncle, so we were able to tour this home and see the actual room in which she was married.

She had a gift for writing and it is recommended that you look up her history and read some of the Anne of Green Gables series of books. You can also take a look at the photo gallery to get some insight into where she lived and what her life was like.

We also drove to Cavendish, PEI, Canada to drive and walk along the beach. We got a wonderfully clear day and the temperature topped out at 60 degrees with no wind. We had lunch in Cavendish, and then drove to the National Heritage Site where the actual house with green gables is located and which was the reference home for the stories.

We explored the museum at the house of green gables and then went inside the actual home to see each of the rooms. We hiked some trails near this home and then hiked to the Cavendish Cemetery to visit the grave of Lucy Maud Montgomery. She died in 1942 at the age of 67. Her writings and childhood homes make for a great tourist attraction for this part of the island. There were four large MCI tour busses at the green gables house and museum while we were there.