{"id":54887,"date":"2014-08-26T14:55:19","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T19:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brookegeery.com\/?p=54887"},"modified":"2014-08-28T11:56:57","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T16:56:57","slug":"why-the-hell-did-we-go-to-newfoundland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/?p=54887","title":{"rendered":"Why The Hell Did We go to Newfoundland?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t

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Despite cries from the plebeians that my “whole life is a vacation,” sometimes I feel the need to actually get away from the Internet.\u00a0But\u00a0since the ‘net is global, this can be a challenge.\u00a0This year, I figured out the perfect destination.\u00a0Newfoundland. It’s closer than Europe, but they still have funny accents, and most importantly, international data ain’t cheap, so my phone was more like a wifi-enabled camera. But when anyone found out we’d come all the way from Portland, they\u00a0asked the same question – why here?\u00a0And I guess it was a bit of an odd choice, seeing as\u00a0we didn’t know anyone, or really anything about the place. But after six days\u00a0I came\u00a0up with a few reasons.<\/p>\n

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Since we had plenty of time to kill, we opted to drive the entire Irish Loop. In a mere six hours, you get to see a good chunk of Newfoundland and more coves than I could count. The real highlight of the loop though, were the enormous and unavoidable potholes on the Northern part that jarred\u00a0our lime green Chevy Spark and had me legitimately scared that we were going to blow a tire and be stuck in Trepassy forever. Now I understand why they were so emphatic we get the tire insurance.<\/p>\n