Dispatch IX — A Vagabond Adventure — Vikings! — Vagabond Adventure

Careful what you learn in the history books. Here’s the story behind the true first encounters between Europeans and Native North Americans.

This is a series about Cyndy and Chip’s Vagabond Adventure — our journey to explore all seven continents, all seven seas and 100+ countries by land and sea, never traveling by jet. COVID has forced us to begin North America, not a bad start, but soon we’ll be heading overseas. What will the world be like following a global pandemic? What people will we meet? What cultures, places, languages and music will broaden us? Are we being pulled apart or are we coming together? We’ll find out. Come along with us on our #vagabondadventure. And tell us what you know and what you have learned in the parts of the world where you live.

We’ve come to believe that many of the world’s people are selfish, mean and unkind. Thankfully that wasn’t the case in the north of Newfoundland as we made our way earlier in the week to visit L’anse aux Meadows, the place where Lief Ericsson and a band of Vikings landed at the tip of the island 1000 years ago.

Map of Newfoundland. Labrador and the rest of Canada are west. Maine is southwest. Greenland is northeast.

But there was problem.

While still in Nova Scotia, I had found that the Meadows’ museum closed October 1. It was now late October. Would there be anything to see?