The travelers returned from PEI in good order. I won the 75¢ pool, my guess coming closest to their arrival time of 5:45PM. They reported that it was a good day for traveling, even though the Airline Route was still snow-covered. They talked with a woman at a gas staion in Brewer who reported that the highway was impassable the day before.

An aside: There's a Airline Road sign at the intersection of Route 9 and U.S. Route 1 near Calais. I've known Route 9 as the Airline Route, which I learned from the locals even before I joined this family of travelers. What fun is it if something has just one name.

The fares on the Maine Turnpike have gone up a bit. One of the best bargains on the trip is the Harbour Bridge in Saint John, New Brunswick. The toll is still a quarter and hasn't increased in at least 25 years.

There's been a good deal of discussion around our table about the sale of the Abby 3 on eBay. It looks to be a very good deal. The Abby 3 is replica of the Abegweit (Abby) 2, the ferry that crossed the Northumberland Strait before the Confederation Bridge was built in the late 90s. The Abby 2, BTW, was sold to a Houston company and renamed the Accrued Mariner. Last year, sadly, she headed east to Alang, India for scrapping, a fate that's befallen other ferries.

We've moved the furniture back to the quarto com nenhum nome. Sandra has readied the tables. All we need now are the people and the food.

Happy 15th Birthday, Michael Francis.