Monday, September 16, 2013
We crossed the ferry and after taking a few pics of two
different lighthouses, we ate lunch at a brewery which I enjoyed. As funny as it sounds to say, their fries
were the best I think I have ever had.
Don’t get me wrong, the rest of the food was food as well but let’s just
say I am thankful that they were not bottomless fries. The beer flight was really cool to try 3 oz
of 10 different beers. If you do the
math on that, it could have easily been a liquid lunch but Rachel helped me out
and tried every one of them, even though the hoppier ones made her wince.
After lunch we walked down a pedestrian mall and found an
oxymoron, an interesting gift shop. We
stopped in and the owner did a really nice job of offering help without being
forceful, another unique experience. I
got to talking with him a bit and after he found out we ride a little, we found
out he is apparently a proud father of a 5th wheel and 2 fully
dressed HD Road Kings that he tows with his custom painted toy hauler with
reflective paint so that at night the HD eagle is illuminated. It looked really cool. Anyway, he showed us around a little to a
section where there are a few women who work for him that sit and chat and knit
and I presume would stop do a show if you were interested. Like I said, a unique gift shop.
We wound up getting a few things for folks at that unique
shop and then at a local pewter shop where they make it on site under a vent
hood and then stopped at the cow ice cream shop. OMG, it was so creamy and good. Rachel got moose tracks and I got blueberry
which had wild blueberries in it. Again,
it was so very good.
After we ate and did a little shopping, we left the city to
visit the cheese lady. Just a little
background, the Cheese lady is a woman who immigrated to PEI from Holland about
26 years ago with a gouda cheese starter and while her husband ran a dairy
farm, she made cheese. A few years ago,
a local chef bought the business when he discovered that she was going to liquidate
and retire.
When we go there, I noted the storm clouds rolling in but I
had cheese on the mind so I was in the door before Rachel could even get out of
the car. As you walk in, you are facing
a bank of three picture windows behind which were about 10 banks of shelves
laden with aging cheese. I think the
owner, who was in the back, heard me exclaim “Look at all the cheese!” because
shortly after he came out with a glad greeting.
He was really nice and gave us a sample of most of his goudas right off
the bat and then any that we inquired about after that. If you have the impression that there were
more than the typical three types of gouda (young, smoked and aged) you are
right. Rachel and I estimate that he had
20 different types of gouda. The most
interesting one of the bunch was a Dutch favorite, cumin. I am not sure about you but cumin makes make
think Mexican, specifically guacamole, but it was really good and being the
most unexpected of the bunch, we got one and two other wedges, onion and hot
pepper and something else that slips my mind but was equally unique.
We left the cheese shop and headed KOA to set-up camp about
3, just as the weather was getting serious about raining. I have noticed that the more successful a KOA
is, the more relaxed the owner is, and this fellow was the most relaxed and
helpful we have met so far. Many KOAs
play at being a destination but I could truly see making this KOA a destination
and renting a cabin for a week or so. He
had all the normal services like shower and laundry but also had volleyball,
horse shoes and other diversions such as renting nice RC cars to race on their
track as well as a nice large dining pavilion with a double sink and electric
range. He also volunteered that they
have kids programs every morning for 2 hours run by local school teachers to
give the parents a little break time and that they have family movies on the
lawn after dark. I was amazed at the
services and asked how busy they are in the summer; he said you cannot get in
unless you book at least a month in advance.
Anyway, we spoke with him for a while and after discovering that we were
in for a night of rain, we decided to take one of their cabins which I was
grateful for all night long.
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