The Flat Earth Society
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While visiting Fogo Island, we made a trek to one of the four corners of the flat earth…
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St. John’s, Newfoundland’s Big Smoke
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As we headed downtown, we were in search of St. John’s Jellybean Row. We drove down the city’s oldest street, Water Street, along the harbor. After some reading, I had learned that Jellybean Row or the Jellybean. Houses were not a specific street, but rather were many of the houses on the downtown hillside. Duckworth Street was a good place to begin. The brightly candy-colored row houses weren’t hard to find. They were everywhere!
Read MoreFogo Island - A Great Auk & One Corner of the Flat Earth
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The reward at the end of the trail was a 6.5’ (2m) tall cast-bronze statue of a great auk by American artist Todd McGrain. The great auk, a flightless bird that became extinct in the mid-19th century, used to thrive on these North Atlantic rocky shores.
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