Today we gained 30 minutes sleep when we traveled back in time! Isn’t it weird we only changed time by 30 minutes? Well, I learned something new today. Newfoundland is 3.5 hours behind UTC. When time zones were introduced in the late 19th century, Newfoundlanders chose their 30-minute offset because that was close to the local solar time in St. John's, the city where most Newfoundlanders lived. But seriously, we changed time a lot and it was hard to even know what the actual time was and the 30 minutes was just crazy.
It's another sea
day. I attended a lecture series on our last port stop, St. John’s Newfoundland. It is the oldest easterly city in North
America. It is also the start of the
trans Canadian highway which is 4860 miles long. I learned about Terry Fox; he ran a marathon each day for 143 days. It is a bit gloomy outside.
I chatted with two
sisters from Florida, and they invited me to lunch. Honestly, it was such a
delight to join people for a meal after eating every meal solo for 11 days. Of course it was a bit awkward to chat with strangers over a meal . . . thankfully it was a quick lunch.
I watched some
old school movies today; Waitress, Napoleon Dynamite, and Cocoon. At least they were not all depressing!
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