Clams as health food
Any hotel that compliments me with a breakfast is worth a return visit. In fact, a place that provides good coffee, fresh bagels, cream cheese, yogurt and sweet oranges deserves me as a fulltime tenant, but the commute from home to Fredericton is a bit long. We were on the highway before the day was too old, with a full tank of gas and some music in the dash. All the way to Parlee Beach.
It might be famous, but the entry fee to see was more like the down payment on a cheap mortgage, so we turned on our heels and headed over to Shediac. No Catalina Flying Boats any more, just a good feed of fried clams in a quantity that recalled the original Platter House in Souris West. I am such a tourist, in my own way. Fried clams before noontime.
We missed the boat. No, really; the bridge that ties doesn’t have the same cachet. No docking announcements, no clam chowder in the cafeteria. The Bridge might be a wonder of the world, but it’s hard to forget success. We did see the Abby III in downtown Borden, and the Gateway Village gave up some good bargains in shorts and sweaters. The poor girl that was outside in the sun, dancing over and over and over to the same tune from Leahy deserved more money.
We actually went to a house store just east of the City. We’re in the market, and it was time to see how much we could “cash and carry”. The answer is that a prebuilt (I hope so, because postbuilt or nonbuilt doesn’t meet our wants) home generally takes about ten weeks from choice to open doors. Apparently our first purchase is land, then a “perc test“, then a hole, then some concrete. This is not an instant project. We’ll now check on the alternatives, and when the weighing in has been completed, I’ll tell the world. Until them, we’re using the premise that we need premises.
Our tents are domed and spiked, and the inflatable boat mattress is in place. We’re high enough above the waterline that floating is unlikely, but the ocean is about thirty meters out and ten meters down from the sleeping bag. Close enough for comfort.
