It's a cloudy rainy day, mild but with restricted visibility. The cloud, wind and rain is putting a crimp on things we had hoped to do (like going out cod fishing).
We grew up hearing the Gander name, and wanted to see what it's like now that trans-Atlantic flights don't need to stop over here anymore. So we decided to take a day trip to Gander today, but didn't take a single picture.
Gander is still a fair-sized town with some evidence of prosperity, like WalMart and MacDonald's. Hard to think of those as prosperity, but in some areas they are. We haven't seen many in Newfoundland.
The cool nights reminded us we forgot to bring one of our usual polar fleece blankets. You'd think we'd remember things like this now, but we did find one to buy in Gander. We found a second-hand bookshop for 3 books, and a store that sold pipe tobacco. They didn't sell me any pipe tobacco though, as they wanted $35 for a small packet!
Back near the campground we stopped at a small shop that sold prepared seafood and also had a live lobster pound. We had no way to cook a lobster. They would cook it for us, but wanted almost double the cost per pound of the live lobster.We got a couple of small lobster rolls instead, and they were very good.
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