THE TRIP
2586 miles in 9 days from Pennsylvania to Prince Edward Island on motorcycles.
No Highways. One toll to leave PEI. Backroads and local spots the entire way. Home-sweet-home while away was a mix of camping, park cabins and old-school motels.
300+ miles and 8+ hours a day on the bikes did not leave much time for exploring along the way. Here are the plants I found on this journey mostly at our overnight stops, discovered during early morning or sunset walks with a hot cup of tea or a local beer, getting some time in to explore, stretch the legs and find all the new-to-me plants and familiar plants in new places I could find before getting back on the seat for another full day’s ride.
THE INSPIRATION
The inspiration for this trip was to see Prince Edward Island and the town of Cavendish, the town the inspired Avonlea, the setting of Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery. Due to the nature of long distance travel and limited time frame for this trip I had zero plant-based goals for this trip – no garden visits or hikes planned. My adventure buddy Meghan and I grew up reading and watching and inspired by Anne of Green Gables. 9 year-old me was obsessed with the 1985 pbs series and did not miss an episode. These stories stuck with us into adulthood. The setting of the stories was a bucolic farmstead on Prince Edward Island, based on the town of Cavendish and we decided to make a pilgrimage to see it.
This is a post of the plants I saw along the way.
HORT travels 