Planning on doing Newfoundland and if we do, should we hop over to Labrador? If we do, timing should be around mid October. If we get to Labrador, would you drive home thru Labrador & Quebec or head back via the ferries?
We took the ferry from Newfoundland to Labrador and spent the night in Red Bay. Great fun! Red Bay was a Basque whaling outpost from about 1530 and they are now a UNESCO World Heritage Site with a good museum. We left the motorhome in a locked yard designed for people like us and drove the car onto the ferry which, by the way, goes to Blanc Sablon, Quebec and you then drive up to Red Bay. It's well worth the trip. By the way, Newfoundland also has some World Heritage Sites. Don't miss them!
As to driving back west through Labrador, I wouldn't. We met two couples while in Red Bay who had just driven up through Labrador and they said it was awful. They said the road was terrible and they weren't even going to do the Newfoundland part of their trip. They just wanted to get on a ferry and go home the easiest route possible! Just for kicks we drove the car out that road for a few miles and it got really bad, really fast. Had we been starting west in the motorhome we would have turned around and not gone any farther.
Spend your time instead in Newfoundland which is really neat. We've been there twice. The first time we only went to the west coast and loved it. The second time we went east to St. John's first (the oldest city in North America) and then made different stops on the return route. I HAD to see the airport at Gander, having lived through the Berlin Airlift. Gander played a major role in it as well as taking in many unexpected visitors who were stranded after 9/11. The "Newfies" are great people too. Very friendly and helpful.
It's a wonderful trip and there are some trip reports in the RV Forum Library by people like Betty Brewer.
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