Happy Fourth of July!!
Woke to sunny skies, but it quickly turned to steady rain all afternoon. Before leaving Gander, we did grocery shopping and Jack got a haircut and then stopped at the Gander Aviation Museum. It is small, but had some big stories to tell. First, it was built in 1938 and at the time, was the largest airport in the world. It had no town, people, or roads, but there was a train station here that provided the base when building the airport. The airport was intended to serve commercial traffic between Europe and Americas as a fuel stopover, but WWII quickly replaced the commercial traffic. In the 1950's the airport was open to all Soviet Bloc countries for refueling between Cuba and Russia and other countries behind the Iron Curtain. They had photos of Fidel Castro trying to toboggan in his first snow. The airport also served as a base for redirected air traffic after 9-11. The town played host to over 6700 people, instantly tripling the size of the city. They went above and beyond feeding and housing all the stsranded folks for days.
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| Steel from the World Trade Center |
We drove west on the TransCanada Highway #1 (TCH) and stopped for the night at Notre Dame Provincial Park. We have a site right on the lake (pond) and the weather finally cleared and gave us a gorgeous sunset.
Went to sleep listening to the forlorn cries of the loons.
We woke this morning to a blowing fog, but it is supposed to improve later this morning and we should have great weather the next couple of days for our detour north along the coast to Twillingate and Fogo Island.
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