Lunenburg

Hey everyone! I arrived safely at the boat late last night in Lunenburg, which is just south of Halifax. The drive up here was quite an adventure in and of itself. My mom and brother Nolan dropped me off just south of Boston around 8:30 Saturday night where I met up with the boat captain Alex. The two of us then headed to Logan airport where we picked up Xurxo (Surso). By the time we got Xurxo in the car it was 10:20 thanks to plane delays and customs. We then headed north with the plan of making it as far into Maine as we could before finding a place to stay. Around 1am we pulled into a hotel to get a room, everything was full. We got the exact same story at the next 5 hotels we stopped at until we made it to Augusta around 2:30 in the morning and found 1 room available. We then woke up at 7, had a hearty complimentary breakfast of microwavable Jimmy Dean egg sandwiches and the standard hotel waffles and hit the road. We made it to the Canadian border around 11:15 and that's where the fun started. We stopped at the US side first so that I could declare my rifle before I left the country. While in US customs they decided to give Canada a call to make sure I wouldn't have any problems bringing it in to the country...Canada said "nope he can't bring it in." So US customs said leave the gun here, you guys go over and talk to Canada and then come back and either bring it back into Canada with your or figure something out here. Apparently if we had just driven straight in with it and they had decided that we couldn't bring it, they could have confiscated the gun, arrested me and denied all three of us entry to Canada...So anyways we go and talk to Canadian customs, and after 3 hours...yes 3 hours of explaining what we were doing, where we were going, why we needed a rifle, that it is not uncommon for boats to have guns on board, that we weren't going into any national parks, and that we weren't going to try to kill any polar bears without good reason, they finally agreed to let us in. One thing we learned was how subjective customs is, there a clause that basically says everything is up to the discretion of the officer, so if they don't like you they can say no and that's that. After 3 hours of going back and forth we then went back to the United States, got the rifle, came back to Canada, filled out all the paperwork and went on our merry way. We then had another 8 hours of driving to make it to Lunenburg. We finally made it at 10:30 last night, making it a full 24 hours of travel from Boston, and a full 48 straight hours of travel for Xurxo who flew from Spain on Saturday. Anyways, we're in Lunenburg right now, which is just south of Halifax. We're here until tomorrow morning and then are headed up to Halifax for a day and then up to Newfoundland. The boat is in great shape and it's great to be here!