#24 Cape Spear, NL: East
There once was a traveler from Winnipeg, Who drove east through a land quite gigantic. When he got to Cape Spear, he said "It seems clear, That I'm further from home than from Limerick." Cape Spear is as far east as you can get in North America. We actually passed western France on the way. Okay, just the French islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon, but I'm sticking to my claim. We arrived on Canada Day Eve and when Patty and I sang O Canada at the tip of the continent, there was only one creature further east than us. A seal pup lay listening about two feet from the Atlantic. We serenaded it with the second verse as well: O Canada! Where pines and maples grow. Great prairies spread and lordly rivers flow. How dear to us thy broad domain, f rom East to Western Sea, Thou land of hope for all who seek! Thou True North, strong and free! We camped in our motorhome right there at the Cape and woke up on Canada Day to some classic Newfoundland fog and the mou...