Date: 10 July, 2013 8:45:41 PM EDT (10:15 PM NDT)

Dear all:

This photo was taken with my iPhone inside a roadside restaurant on the Trans-Canada Highway at Goobies Junction. There was a statue of a moose outside but I preferred Morris.

Today is Day 7 in Newfoundland and I am finally getting over a cold I seemed to bring from Toronto. I am travelling with my mother here in Eastern Newfoundland. We have done a road trip from St. John’s, the capital, north to a place called Cupids (the oldest English settlement in North America apparently) and then onto Port-Rexton near Trinity. Today we drove back to St. John’s by way of Highway #1, the Trans-Canada Highway. I had to stop here at Goobies. It is famous, or infamous. We had actually got packed lunches from the place we were staying, but we went inside this restaurant to take a look.

Morris, his brothers, sisters, mother, father, sons, daughters and the rest of the large moose clan, seem to be hiding in many wooded areas on the side of the highway (since there are a lot of signs telling us to beware of moose). Fortunately, I haven’t seen any and frankly, I don’t really want to see one up close on the road. I suppose Morris himself lives at Goobies Junction (as per the sign below). I have to believe it because that’s what it says.

Anyhow, at least my phone was useful in taking this photo, because outside of St. John’s, there is virtually no Rogers coverage (and they somehow failed to let me know that when I called about roaming charges). There are no roaming charges. There is no service. I can access wifi and get emails that way. I can use the little camera. But as a cellphone, it is useless. Oh, well… it’s maps and old school landlines in hotels for me, if need be. I am back in St. John’s for a couple of days so I’m living it up, able to get texts (wow) and get calls (double wow). Then on Friday I fly to the western part of Newfoundland to a place called Deer Lake. I’m not sure Morris has visited there, but some of his relatives likely have. Maybe they call it Deer Lake so as not to scare those of us from outside Newfoundland. Maybe it’s really Moose Lake where the moose hold their weekly pow-wows. Morris didn’t tell me anything special, but then when you’re stuck up on a wall, you may be speechless (I think I would be).

Sincerely

Sara