Nova Scotia RV Trip for Weekend Warriors: What to See, Skip & Our 4-Day Itinerary

Hey RV Canucks fans! We just wrapped up Episode 67 of our podcast, finishing our 2025 Grand Tour of the East Coast with Nova Scotia. This was our final province after PEI (covered in Ep 65), and we squeezed a ton into just 4 days as part-time RVers from Ontario. We kept the diary-style storytelling you love, but pulled out real planning lessons so you can do Nova Scotia smarter.

Quick warning upfront: Nova Scotia is amazing, but don’t try to cram it all into one short trip. We skipped the Cabot Trail on purpose, dodged a $1,300 ferry, and learned hard lessons about timing. Here’s our honest recap, campground reviews, and what we’d change.

Picking Up from the PEI Ferry

We rolled off the 10 a.m. Northumberland Ferry from PEI (Wood Islands to Caribou) and drove straight to Fortress of Louisbourg. Spoiler: it was a rush.

Fortress of Louisbourg: Allow Extra Time (or Skip if You’re Short)

• What we did: Arrived afternoon, plenty of RV parking, toured the historic site.
• The catch: Things started closing by late afternoon. Roads from the ferry are windier/narrower than Google Maps suggests—add 1 extra hour to your estimate.
• Pro tip: Overnight camping at the Fortress is magical but books months ahead. We didn’t know until too late.
• Weekend warrior fix: Treat it as a half-day minimum. Take an earlier ferry or plan it for Day 2.
• Bonus: Fewer crowds late in the day, but check cruise ship schedules.

Takeaway: If you’re on the 10 a.m. ferry, day 1 is mostly driving. Save the full tour for later.

Night 1: Mira River Provincial Park

• Why here: Solid overnight after Louisbourg. Pioneer cemetery on-site, clean grounds, flat sites, wide pull-throughs.
• Mix of campers: Locals + travelers heading further.
• One gripe: Laundry was busy (typical for peak season provincial parks).
• Fix: Bring a portable washer or use a laundromat in Sydney.
• Reservation: Book via Nova Scotia Parks.

Our verdict: Great family-friendly stop. We’d stay again.

Why We Skipped the Cabot Trail (Smart Choice)

No regrets—we saved it for a dedicated Cape Breton trip. As weekend warriors, cramming it would’ve rushed everything else. Do one region well, not everything halfway.

Nights 2-3: The Ovens Natural Park (Our Highlight)

• The vibe: Epic ocean views from campsites, open/private park, hot showers.
• Navigation note: Tight for big rigs—go slow, ask staff for help.
• No privacy between sites, but scenery makes up for it.
• Must-do: Ovens Trail (sea caves, blowholes, dramatic coast)—allow 2-3 hours.
• Bonus adventure: Biked to a secret sea glass beach (Google Map in show notes).
• Perfect split: Day 1 trail, Day 2 bikes/beach/chill.
• Book here: Ovens Natural Park.

If you only have time for one “wow” stop, make it The Ovens. We’d build a whole mini-trip around it.

Day Trip: Lunenburg (UNESCO Gem)

• Park smart: Arena lot + walking path into town (downtown RV parking = chaos).
• Hits: Maritime Museum, waterfront seafood lunch, stepped aboard Bluenose II.
• Priorities if short on time:
  1. Maritime Museum
  2. Seafood by the water
  3. Bluenose II (check schedule: Bluenose.novascotia.ca)
  4. Ice cream waterfront
  5. Stroll UNESCO streets
• UNESCO info: Parks Canada Lunenburg.
• Time it right: Mid-morning arrival, out by late afternoon to beat traffic.

Pro tip: Perfect “highway reset” stop—even non-RVers should park at the arena.

The Plan That Didn’t Happen: Yarmouth, Keji & $1,300 Ferry Nope

• Original idea: Dark sky night near Yarmouth + Kejimkujik National Park (another preserve).
• Loop via Digby to Maine ferry.
• Reality: Ferry = $1,300 USD. Nope. Drove home instead.
• Lesson: Always price ferries before routes. Extra km often cheaper.
• Ferry info: Northumberland Ferries (PEI-NS leg).

Next time: Dedicated dark-sky loop (Yarmouth + Keji), skip Louisbourg to fit it.

Home Through Maine: Truck Repairs Reality Check

Cut through Maine to flatten roads + handle truck trouble. (Full repair costs/teardown in a future episode.) RV life = breakdowns. Build in buffer time + budget.

If We Did Nova Scotia Again (Rapid-Fire)

• Book months ahead: Fortress overnight.
• Skip short-trip: Cabot Trail.
• Stay again: The Ovens.
• Must town: Lunenburg.
• Budget hack: Check ferries first.
• Pack extra: Laundry plan.

Save with Canada Strong Pass

Free entry to sites like Fortress of Louisbourg (June 19–Sept 7, 2026): Canada Strong Pass.

Listen to Episode 67

Get the full story + more tips on the RV Canucks podcast. Show notes with sea glass beach map + all links at rvcanucks.com.

What’s your Nova Scotia must-do? Drop it in the comments—we might feature it! 🚐🌊

Originally posted from our 2025 East Coast RV Grand Tour. Safe travels! — Dan & Melina

TRANSCRIPT

0 (0s):
Today we are talking about Nova Scotia specifically taking a 10:00 AM ferry heading straight to the fortress of Louisburg. Realizing halfway through our journey that we’d misjudged the time, the roads and how fast things close on Cape Breton. Then we skipped to the Cabot Trail on Purpose and found a Seaglass beach near The Ovens. We parked and had a day trip to Lunenburg and we got a great feel for the province in three short days.

1 (27s):
This episode is for people who wanna do Nova Scotia in a weekend and we’ll talk about what We did and what we would do differently if We did it next time.

0 (40s):
That’s right. And we are the RV Canucks. We are Canada’s RV podcast for new RVs and weekend warriors. Although we’re based in Ontario, we travel all over North America and show you just how far you can go on your vacations from work. Welcome to episode 67, or as our teenage daughter would say, 6 7, 6 7. And I’m adding that now so that in like 10 years when somebody downloads this episode, I have to drive them down like a rabbit hole of like pop culture to figure out what we’re talking about. So this is our official start of season six. I cannot believe it has been six years. That’s pretty crazy. Today we are finishing off the 2025 Grand tour where we went to three provinces, traveling through five I guess.

0 (1m 23s):
But our core trip was to Brunswick, PEI and Nova Scotia. This episode picks up the moment we step off the ferry in Nova Scotia. We have covered New Brunswick and PEI in episode 65 and 64, and if you’re thinking I only have long weekends, like can I cover Nova Scotia in that time period? You absolutely can. This episode is our answer to that question. We’re gonna show you some realistic, you know, three to four day itineraries or what We did in that three to four days where we spend our nights, what we’d skip next time and how we would structure that trip a little bit differently. I guess if we were to do it again, let’s talk about from like offloading the ferry.

1 (1m 59s):
So we got off the ferry, it was a fairly uneventful offload, nice and smooth and quick. We get onto the roads in Nova Scotia And I think probably the first thing that we learned is that you need to add extra time into what the GPS tells you and that the roads are gonna be a little bit more bumpy than you expected. I

0 (2m 17s):
Wouldn’t even say bumpy, like they were narrow going to Cape Breton and we were on like main roads like there, it’s not like we took like secondary roads to get there. We were taking main roads, but the drop-offs were very steep and going kind of up into the, the Highlands I guess of of Cape Breton.

1 (2m 33s):
Yeah, the, they’re all paved, like set the context, they’re all paved. I think it’s just the confluence of the roads or might have the odd extra bump. So you drive a little bit slower, there’s a lot of bends and twists and turns, which means you can’t necessarily keep up your speed if you want to do this safely and all those things incrementally add more time. So if your GPS says you’re gonna get there at one o’clock in the afternoon, you might just have to up it to two o’clock in the afternoon. Depends on, you know, a lot of factors but you get the idea

0 (3m 1s):
For sure. And I think we’ve kind of perfected our trip travel in that we can pretty much gauge like we know if we’re using like a run of the mill GPS, not like say an RV specific GPS, we kind of know how much time to add on and we know what kind of roads to take. But I would say even in this case we, it took us longer than we anticipated we would, this part of the trip wasn’t originally planned. We had originally planned to do to go over to Nova Scotia, do like Lunenburg, do Yarmouth, do digby, see the dark sky preserve at Keji National Park. And then we started looking up, or I started looking up the fortress of Louisburg. I know my parents had been there a couple years ago and if you want to get me to get excited about a trip, like take me to an open air museum that’s full of like old architecture.

0 (3m 46s):
So we kind of added that as hey wouldn’t it be great if, and then we decided to kind of work that in Before Lunenburg I would say we took the earliest ferry, right? It was the seven Amburg. So when we landed we thought, okay, no problem, we’ll have plenty of time to go to Louisburg before we go to our campground for the night. And We did have time to see it, but I think we only had about two or two and a half hours before it actually closed at the end of the day. One of the pros to that is that like there wasn’t a ton of crowds. Like we could kind of go through all of the buildings and talk to the exhibitors and talk to the actors that were in there without a whole bunch of crowds. However, it did kind of limit how much time we could spend in each building to kind of get outta there by five o’clock.

1 (4m 26s):
And it’s a good size. Like it’s not condensed, it’s laid out as it would be. So there’s a lot of space in between things. There was enough people to let you look around and there was enough but not so much that it was crowded, it had a good atmosphere. Now We did find out the day we got there that a cruise ship had just departed and so they had the souvenirs and the bread from the bakery was sold out ’cause of the cruise ship cleaned them out and they were unaware of it. So I guess look ahead is, is my lesson there. Two

0 (4m 53s):
Of the things that I enjoyed most about Upper Canada Village when we went a number of years ago was the bread and the bakery and then they make their own cheese and you can kind of have the same thing at Fortress of Louisburg. So I was really excited to try the bread. But I guess next time I would say another thing that we discovered, and again remember go back to episodes, you know 63, 64, 65 to kind of learn about the grand tour is we decided to do this trip with minimal planning in Canada. It’s very hard to get reservations if you wanna visit national parks, even some provincial parks it’s really hard to get reservations. So we thought what if we kind of try this relatively last minute, like I think we had a couple of weeks notice to book all of these campsites and see how successful we were And I think we were really successful.

0 (5m 33s):
However, one super cool thing at Fortress of Louisburg, which books like a year out is that you can stay inside the fort overnight, which is like super exciting to me. Of course we called them and we’re like, any chance you have any last minute cancellations? And of course the answer is no. But once the gate’s shut at 5:00 PM they basically lock you in like they lock the gates up and you can sleep in like the Armory or like there’s just several buildings you can sleep in. So going back again, I would probably that part of the province and maybe this kind of will lead into the Cabot Trail conversation requires more planning I would say.

1 (6m 6s):
Yeah, I think maybe we would slow it down a little bit, dedicate a little bit more time to seeing Louis Berg. I think, you know, the experience was really good. The staff there is really helpful. We remember this is important, we showed up with the trailer from the ferry So we had to find parking there. There’s ample parking there, there’s a dedicated RV lot as we learned non RVs park in the RV lot. But there, you know, not a showstopper, we found a spot easily enough you’re gonna go to a bit of a reception center, a visitor center really check in Admission was free because it was part of the Canada Strong pass, which is not actually a pass, it’s a program. So you don’t need to sign up for anything, just show up and they’ll take it from there.

1 (6m 47s):
So, And I think that’s the same for 2026, but double check things. If you’re planning that this summer and then you’re gonna take a bus to the fort especially that was important for us. You could walk it and probably be a good 15, 20 minute walk to get to the fort proper. So like hop on the bus is my recommendation and then you get in there and you see everything. But I think overall we would’ve maybe dedicated a little bit more time had we not added it in kind of close to arrival day.

0 (7m 14s):
Yeah and maybe what we’ll do is, we’ll we’ll kind of pair this episode like go to our social media, go to Instagram, TikTok, Facebook and you can kind of see, we’ll share some images from this fortress in particular. It’s kind of a really cool program in that they invite Reenactor to come and visit them so they, they come and they visit and they dress up every day. And So it just kind of fills the fortress with you know, kind of that realistic vibe where you’ve got, you know, it’s not like you walk into a building and there’s somebody telling you how something works, which they do have, but you also have all of these kind of actors that are volunteers that walk around and really kind of, you know, make it a really immersive experience. Which I thought was kind of cool. And

1 (7m 52s):
I definitely go back in like you know, if we’re back out that way in four or five years, I’d definitely go and do it again.

0 (7m 58s):
Yeah, I think what I would recommend is stick to the original itinerary we had planned. I kind of wish we had done that ’cause We did miss out on some things that I was really excited to see. And then treat Cape Breton Island as a standalone trip. So that would be Cabot Trail Fortress of Louisburg. Like you can fill a week in just that part of the province for sure.

1 (8m 17s):
Yeah, I think there’s more than a a week’s worth of stuff to do in Nova Scotia, so don’t try and do it all. Yeah,

0 (8m 23s):
So the night we went to Louisburg we managed to grab a really nice pull through spot at Mira River Provincial Park and this was a great park, really nice level sites, fantastic pull through sites really wide. It was busy but it wasn’t super overly busy. And there’s a really good gas station kind of right outside the gates of the park on the main road. So that’s perfect place if you need to to gas up before hitching up and hitting the road again. Or even with your trailer, it was okay from for trailer access. That being said, I think this park was very like low key. It reminded me a little bit of Inri Huron, like there’s a lot of like locals that go there for the weekend and then We did talk to a couple of couples that were from the states and people just traveling through, but it seems to be a really popular local park.

0 (9m 7s):
But I really enjoyed it. It kind of hit all of those things and when I mentioned Inri Huron, like it also had a Pinery cemetery on the site of the provincial park, which like I love to kind of wander through and So we rode our bikes around the river, you could go down to the river and really nice like sunset views and it was just a really clean, good park.

1 (9m 27s):
Intimate,

0 (9m 27s):
Totally intimate. I would say maybe it was just the days we were there, but there’s not a ton of laundry for, well there’s typical laundry facilities, like you’re not gonna have a bank of, you know, it’s not, it’s not a laundromat but the laundry was really, really busy when we went and So we had to kind of keep riding our bike back and forth over to the laundry to kind of switch things over and wait our turn and, and you know, there’s a couple of things we wanted to hang to dry and so like if you’re going there to do laundry and it’s the summer, I would just, there was enough like long-term trip people there that they wanted to stop and do their laundry. So make sure you have enough time to wash and fold and dry and do all of that before you

1 (10m 2s):
Leave. Yeah, don’t rush yourself through it. I think it was the right place at the right time. I’d say it was on par with any other provincial park in Canada or State Park in the US So to the extent you’re looking for a review, washrooms are clean, staff is friendly, not hard to get around, like don’t overthink it too much is what I’m trying to say. It’s a, it’s a good spot to stay without having to look at five hours of YouTube reviews.

0 (10m 23s):
Yeah, for sure. And I think the next day, like we just, we stayed overnight and we left the next day to kind of go towards the Lunenburg area. That was a full travel day. Like I think it took us six hours to kind of come back off, you know, Cape Breton Island. So that travel day took almost the whole day. But We did arrive in the daylight for the two days that we were in the Lunenberg area. We stayed at The Ovens Natural park and campground. It is a privately owned park. It’s been in the same family for eons. Like they have a cool little museum there that shows the history. You have wide open sites, it’s full hookup.

1 (10m 58s):
Let’s talk about hookups since you brought it up. Yeah, yeah There’s full hookups. We were booked in for a site with a 30 amp hookup and there was not a 30 amp hookup at our site, but because it’s a private RV park and things are pretty close, I just took power off a different site that wasn’t being occupied in, in case you’re thinking, oh he must have missed it. Like the guy behind me even’s like, yeah, I see what you mean they’re, you’re missing the 30 amp. But it wasn’t a showstopper by any stretch of the imagination. A lot of people were staying there in the same way that we were. They were probably in the area or they were traveling around Nova Scotia because I remember the, the family that stayed beside us was from Europe and they were in a rental motor home.

1 (11m 38s):
So good place to stay. I’d put it on there, just manage your expectations when you pull in for utilities in the washroom.

0 (11m 45s):
It was tight. It was tight to get in and out just because it, it is an older park but it was definitely maneuverable like we could, we could get in and out. It just was a couple of tight turns to kind of swing into and out of the park.

1 (11m 58s):
Listen, it’s not a provincial park, it’s not a KOA and it’s not a resort but I would still stay there

0 (12m 3s):
Again. Oh it was fantastic. I would say the views second to none. Like we saw sailboats, we saw the blue nose sail by, you’re kind of up on a little bit of a cliff like I would say probably eight or 10 feet. Like there’s stairs down to the beach but the campgrounds are kind of up top so you have a fantastic view of the water and it was gorgeous, very windy. So like note if you’re gonna like don’t leave your awning out if you’re not at your site because you are you know, on water. But really, really fantastic site. They had like a little bar restaurant on area, a good camp store with like a lot of good provisions. I think we had to pick up like aluminum foil and just like things that we had forgotten. They had a great little camp store but the highlight of the park is the actual Ovens, which is a series of caves, blow holes, et cetera.

0 (12m 44s):
And we took an afternoon and hiked that. Highly recommend, it was really cool. Like you, there was a number of kind of really rustic trails and you would, you know, they had built over the years like overlooks and there’s little concrete steps that go down inside caves and so you can kind of see the water rushing in and out. But very, very worth it just for an afternoon hike. And it took us maybe, I don’t know, half an hour, 45 minutes.

1 (13m 9s):
Yeah. And I was a little reluctant but I was actually really glad We did it. I would do it again. There’s a lot of good spots to take photos and like put a little drama into them as well with all these blow holes and the way the sea comes up. So that’s really cool as well.

0 (13m 24s):
And they did also have a pool which was a nice addition

1 (13m 27s):
And also like listen, if you’re on the road and your kids need to blow off steam, this is a good park where you can put ’em into a field and tell ’em to go play tag or throw a football or a Frisbee and just burn off some energy. So like certainly was a going concern and lots of people coming and going so for sure

0 (13m 41s):
We saw deer too every morning we saw deer in the field right behind our site. It was, yeah. Yeah it was a really good

1 (13m 47s):
Place. Seagull stole the toast like so like yeah keep an eye on your toast

0 (13m 54s):
Right near The Ovens and we’ll put this in the show notes as well. I would say one of my top tips if you love sea glass, I love to kind of comb through the seaside and look for sea glass that’s washed it up, washed up on shore. There was a really fantastic beach that was within bike riding distance. We took about 10 minutes to bike down to it. They have a lot of sea glass and it was really cool. So I’ll put the Google link for the sea glass beach in our show notes as well if you’re into that kind of thing. Yeah,

1 (14m 19s):
Let me just set the stage there, paint you a picture. There’s lots of kind of summer homes, cottages, the beach was really nice to walk on in your bare feet. It was nice and secluded. You know if you’ve ever found that Hideaway Beach in you know, along the Bruce Peninsula somewhere, that’s kind of the flavor that I would put it in for people that are around North America that it was one of those little gems that nobody knows about unless you listen to the podcast. So don’t be afraid to go off the beaten track is what I’m trying to say.

0 (14m 47s):
In terms of location, The Ovens is like the perfect location. If you’re going to head into Lunenberg for a day trip nice and close, you get a beautiful drive in and out of Lunenberg. It’s about 25 minutes outside of Lunenburg so you get a really nice coastal road to drive in. And maybe we’ll talk a little bit about our day trip in Lunenberg and whether you’re kind of stopping, I think it’s better as a day trip where you don’t have your rig attached but you certainly can go to Lunenberg if you do have your trailer and you’re just kind of passing through for a half day trip or a little rest on the road. But maybe we’ll talk about the parking situation in that context. The

1 (15m 19s):
Important part to know and understand this is that Lunenberg is one of those pictures destination places like Niagara on the lake or Laura. So parking’s gonna be difficult and it’s gonna involve trying to find a spot going to involve having to pay for it. We actually found a really good free spot. It was a big lot between the Lunenberg Curling Club and the Lunenberg Arena, both our barns and if you appreciate, you know, an old arena, this is, you know, I did pop my head inside. It was a really good wide open parking lot where we could park and maybe 10, 15 minute walk into Lunenburg certainly took the stress out of like trying to do laps of the downtown trying to find a spot for a a pickup truck to park. So that’s like tip number one.

0 (15m 59s):
Yeah and to be clear, We did try the ladder and try to find a parking spot. There is a parking lot down at the marina but I think that fills up like first thing in the morning And I think we got there just shortly before lunch, like 10 30, 11 and So it was, yeah I would say the walk, I was gonna look it up on Google Maps before We did this, but I would say I don’t know, less than it was like a kilometer and a half maybe like it wasn’t long and there’s, if you kind of cut across the parking lot to the right of the tennis courts, you’re gonna see a path that kind of walks along the water and takes you into Lunenberg. So like not on the street side but on the water side there’s a nice path with a playground and you know, some monuments to look at memorial markers, things like that. So that was a great way to kind of get a different view than you would’ve if you were just driving in and parking.

0 (16m 43s):
We did the Maritime Museum, we saw the blue nose, which we’ll maybe talk about specifics to that. And we had like a great lunch and then spent the rest of the day kind of wandering around shops. Obviously having the obligatory ice cream, antique shops, there’s a lot to do. I would say the, the blue nose again last minute trip we actually didn’t even know if the blue nose was gonna be there but it was that day We did not pay to go out on the blue nose, which you can do. But when they come back to port in between their little tours around the harbor, they let you on once they let the paying customers off, you can go on for free and just stand on it and see it and talk to primarily summer students who are working on it for the summer and just really chat about their experience.

0 (17m 24s):
So that was a really cool thing that he didn’t know we could do for free. But they do take the blue nose out and tour it around far away from from Nova Scotia. So it’s not there all the time but you can look up the Blue Nose has a website and you can look up when it’s going to be in Luxenberg. So if you want to time it to make sure that you see it, then that’s something that’s important maybe for like our US listeners do we wanna say what the blue nose is?

1 (17m 46s):
The blue nose is like one of the most famous racing ships that won a bucket load of trophies, schooner Schooner that won a ton of trophies. And so to tie the, tie this all together, if you go to the maritime museum and you do the blue nose, which are, you could throw a tennis ball from one to the next, right? You’re gonna get the whole flavor and all of the information and then if you are, you know, in Canada and you pick up a dime on the back of the dime is the blue nose. So it, it was really good. Like I think the thing to know for Lunenberg is once you’ve parked the museum, the blue nose, the waterfront, the shops, the restaurants, it’s all nice and tidy in a walkable distance.

1 (18m 26s):
You’re not moving from one to the other. And so that’s really nice And I think we only really, other than you know, paying for ice cream and food, I don’t think you had to pay to get on the blue note. So you’re really only having to pay a nominal charge to go into that museum. Everything else is really low cost.

0 (18m 42s):
I will make, maybe make a small note on accessibility because I think while everything is close together, the town is very hilly and there’s a lot of like very steep roads to walk up and down. So if you have some mobility issues you might wanna, you know, stay closer to the harbor side where it’s relatively flat. But you know, a lot of the shops and stuff are like, we’re talking like 45 degree gradient hills, which We did. We did most of what’s considered kind of like the UNESCO world heritage part of the town. And then we just hopped in the truck and we drove kind of around the rest of Lunenberg the neighborhoods you know, up further from the water just to kind of take that in. So

1 (19m 17s):
Further from the water at the top of a hill there is another RV park that you could stay at. We, we kind of just saw it from the road and it looks like a going concern. It looks like a good place to stay. Definitely check it out and do your research. I think we’re happy with what We did at The Ovens. I don’t think either one’s necessarily a wrong decision. Yeah,

0 (19m 34s):
The one and Lunenburg at the top of the hill was completely booked as it would be because it’s essentially walking distance to town and you get a really nice like elevated view of the water much higher than The Ovens. But I was super happy with what we chose given that we were booking last minute. But we’ll put a link and some information on that campground as well in the show notes. So maybe we’ll talk about what we didn’t do or what I had originally planned in our little iter itinerary that we didn’t do. Because I think this is kind of an important one And I kind of think we missed out originally because of the whole fortress of Louisburg thing. Like I think that was the detour, although I loved it. I’m, I’m sad that I missed like Yarmouth and Digby and, and kind of the area of the province that’s like dedicated dark sky preserve.

0 (20m 19s):
’cause you know after our trip to California for our 20th anniversary we stayed in a dark high sky preserve and like the stars are unbelievable. It’s such a cool way to spend an evening or two just kind of staring out at the cosmos. So We did miss that. One of the reasons was we were going to go down towards Yarra of like go back up around Digby and then take the ferry. Dan talked about this before the ferry was like an astronomical cost, like 1300 US dollars to go across to Maine and then kind of cut back and that just prevents you from having to like loop all the way back around to where you can kind of cross out of Nova Scotia into New Brunswick. And I think if we were to do this again, I would’ve cut out Cape Breton altogether and done the dark sky preserve kind of in the middle of the, of the province.

0 (21m 2s):
There’s, I’m gonna butcher this name. So the locals call it Keji National Park but it’s ke magic I think is how you say it. And that is a dark sky preserve. It’s a national park, a Canada national park and dedicated dark sky preserve. There’s a museum on site historical site that you can visit and that’s kind of perfectly located if you were going kind of Lunenburg up to to kind of digby you could stay there. It’s kind of right in the middle of the province. And so We did miss out on that. But I would say three day itinerary, like I would do kind of, you know, three to four day itinerary. I would do like two nights and Lunenburg and then like a night at the dark sky preserve and like maybe a night over near Yarmouth.

0 (21m 43s):
So you kind of see the other coast of the province.

1 (21m 46s):
Yeah, I think you’re kind of dividing the province in half and you, if you’re doing it on a long weekend type timeframe, you’re either doing the west or you’re either doing the east but don’t try and put them both together ’cause I think they both deserve their own proper trip. Yeah. If that’s all the time that you can devote to it.

0 (21m 60s):
For sure. And I think we’ve talked about this before and we were chatting this morning about putting this episode together. I think we wanna do a dedicated episode so like stay tuned for this. We’ve talked a lot about the truck troubles we had on the way home and we were kind of sensing that we were having some problems with, with our truck and we wanted to get home. So We did cut our trip short by a day just to kind of get back home and we ended up having a very expensive repair on the truck when we got home. But we’ve talked enough about that in previous episodes that I think what we wanna do is dedicate it, dedicate a specific episode to the truck and to those kind of maintenance things. You see, we’ve owned the truck for 10 years, we’ve had it since it rolled off the lot.

0 (22m 40s):
We’ve had a number of repairs. Now keep in mind like under heavy towing loads we’ve had over a hundred thousand kilometers. Like we’ve taken this truck and our trailer everywhere in North America. So it’s had, it’s been tested, right? So the problems that we are having now 10 years later are very like typical for the truck. And you know, it’s not a towing issue, it’s not a capacity issue, it’s just this, this is typically what happens over 10 years.

1 (23m 6s):
I think we’ve got like close to 270, 280,000 kilometers. I think we’ve got some lessons that we can impart on people if their vehicles got 50,000 kilometers. And I think that is worthy of its own episode ’cause there’s, you know, we kind of thought about this even over the winter. There’s a lot that we could put in there that would be benefit for everybody. So I think that’s probably an episode we’re looking at for this next season to come up. ’cause we all think about the trailer and or your rv but you know, we often don’t think about what’s pulling it

0 (23m 33s):
For sure. So I think we kind of co have covered like what we would do differently. I would say if you’re planning a trip to Nova Scotia, especially as a first time visitor, as a weekend warrior, I think, and we say this all the time, time like you don’t need to do everything. Like whether you’re going on an RV trip or you’re visiting Walt Disney World, like you don’t have to do everything in your first trip. Like leave yourself wanting more. One of the best things that we do when we go is just say, oh okay. Like we kind of hit the highlights and then we map out places like on a little more intimate scale that we might like to return to. So don’t stress if you don’t see everything because what you see out there, there’s so many beautiful things out there. You’ll be satisfied with whatever you do see.

1 (24m 11s):
Yeah, I think definitely don’t overthink it is what we’re trying to say. Like you’ll know we went to Nova Scotia and we haven’t talked about Halifax and we didn’t go for to Halifax for the same reason we didn’t go to Charlottetown. And if you want to know why, just kind of listen back to the PEI episode. Yeah, that’s

0 (24m 25s):
Episode

1 (24m 26s):
65. But by no means is it a slag against Charlottetown or Halifax. It just wasn’t gonna work for what we were doing on this trip. Yeah,

0 (24m 33s):
For

1 (24m 33s):
Sure. I think that’s it. Like I think we learned a lot from last year about doing the podcast. We learned a lot about RVing and trailering, we learned a lot about tow vehicles. I think the winter break was good for us and we kind of needed that break from everything And I think we’re excited to charge into the 2026 RV season of travel and start sharing more stories.

0 (24m 54s):
Absolutely. And we’re gonna, we have a number of great stories planned to talk about, we’re gonna change the format so the podcast is a little more consistent for your, for listeners and easier to navigate. So we’ve done a a lot of kind of like tweaking and refining over the winter break. So we’re super excited for 2026. I still can’t believe we’re here, you know, six years later. Yeah. On something that was, you know, a COVID passion project. But if this episode has helped you send it to a friend who’s been thinking about doing the East Coast. If you’ve done Nova Scotia in an rv, tell us what you’d add or skip. You can send us a dm again, TikTok and Instagram we’re at at RV Connects on Facebook. We’re at the real RV Connects and you can always send us an email.

0 (25m 35s):
We love getting emails, it’s hello at RV Canucks dot com.

1 (25m 38s):
Definitely always up for a good email. Okay.

0 (25m 41s):
And we’ll chat again at the end of the month.

1 (25m 44s):
Bye-bye. Bye-bye.