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Fortunately, the contest ended in a tie so everybody got to enjoy a treat.</p><p>“You’ve got to create energy and upbeat attitude,” Caragher said. “Renewed energy and enthusiasm goes a long ways towards a good practice.”</p><p>The Spartans will need much better practices to snap a two-game losing streak and get the elusive sixth win. Navy’s triple option presents a lot of challenges, especially after SJSU struggled to contain the running of Nevada quarterback Cody Fajardo.</p><p>San Jose State is only a season removed from a 12-0 shutout of Navy, but the circumstances have changed so much that it’s a distant memory. Only one defensive starter from last year’s game &#8212; defensive tackle Travis Raciti &#8212; is lined up to start this week. Of the 10 tackles for loss the Spartans had in last year’s game, none are by players who will start Friday’s game.</p><p>Anthony Larceval had two tackles for loss and a sack, but he’s a backup this year after suffering a serious illness last December that nearly ended his career. Derek Muaava, Vince Buhagiar and Tony Popovich combined for 3.5 tackles for loss but are all out with injuries. The remaining are by four players who either graduated or quit the team.</p><p> Next game: vs. Navy, 6:30 p.m., Friday (ESPN2)</p><p> Notable: The game vs. Navy will take place on the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The Spartans will have a Military Appreciate Night, giving out two free tickets to any active or former military members with proper ID. They’ll also have enlistment ceremonies for the Army and Navy among other special events.</p> Boise State quarterback Grant Hedrick (center), shown against Wyoming in Boise, Idaho, on Nov. 16, has started for the Broncos ever since Joe Southwick went down with an ankle injury against Nevada. Southwick could return this week for the San Diego State game. (Otto Kitsinger/AP file)</p> BOISE STATE </p><p>The Broncos are inching closer to needing to make a decision at quarterback.</p><p>Senior starter Joe Southwick has returned to practice — he was in pads Tuesday — and will play in some role when he’s ready, coach Chris Petersen said.</p><p>Junior backup Grant Hedrick still is expected to start Saturday night at San Diego State, Petersen said.</p><p>Petersen has been non-committal about who will start when Southwick returns, but he said “there’s no doubt” the senior will play.</p><p>“We’ll just take that one day at a time,” Petersen said.</p><p>Southwick broke his right ankle Oct. 19 against Nevada and had surgery Oct. 21. He showed some rust Monday.</p><p>“Like he has been out for a while,” Petersen said. “He’s throwing the ball fine.”</p><p>Southwick is 15-4 as the Broncos’ starting quarterback (not counting the Nevada game, when he left after the first play). The Broncos averaged 40.8 points per game in his games this season.</p><p>Hedrick is 3-1, counting the Nevada game. The Broncos have averaged 36 points per game in those.</p><p>The quarterbacks have similar stats, too. Hedrick’s rating is slightly higher (153.20 to 149.89).</p><p>Hedrick’s biggest weakness might be turnovers. He threw an interception and lost a fumble last week against Wyoming — giving him six turnovers (three interceptions, three fumbles) this season — after a fantastic performance at Colorado State.</p><p>“I thought Grant was solid (against Wyoming),” Petersen said. “That’s why I think it’s so interesting at that quarterback position. You can take a couple steps forward in one week and then maybe a step back in certain phases of it. He made some good decisions.”</p><p> Next game: at San Diego State, 7:35 p.m., Saturday (CBS Sports Network)</p><p> Notable: Boise State will collect a league-high $1.6 million in TV bonuses under the plan it negotiated as part of the school’s re-commitment to the Mountain West. Fresno State is second at $1.3 million. … True freshman WR Thomas Sperbeck is out with a sprained ankle. Senior WR Kirby Moore (foot) has been practicing but still has not played since Sept. 20 at Fresno State. … LB Ben Weaver, the Broncos’ top tackler, didn’t play against Wyoming but Petersen is hopeful he’ll play this week. RT Rees Odhiambo returned from injury in that game. … The Broncos’ opponent has scored first in each of the past four games and seven of 10 on the year.</p> SAN DIEGO STATE </p><p>San Diego State’s offensive line woes continue.</p><p>The Aztecs have had inconsistent play from the offensive line for most of the year, and the line play looked rough again at Hawaii – especially in the first half.</p><p>SDSU allowed two sacks before halftime and quarterback Quinn Kaehler struggled with the constant pressure as Hawaii recorded eight quarterback hurries, and kept Kaehler dodging and ducking from defenders for most of the night.</p><p>As a result, the Aztecs offense suffered in the first half.</p><p>The SDSU running backs managed only 65 total yards in the first half. Kaehler was 9 of 21 for 144 yards and a touchdown at halftime, and 56 of those yards came on one big play – when he hit Colin Lockett for a touchdown after the defense literally stood frozen thinking that a Hawaii offside penalty had ended the play.</p><p>“The offensive line didn’t play particularly well in the first half,” SDSU coach Rocky Long said.</p><p>Things got a little better in the second half when the offensive line made some adjustments, and as a result the quarterback play improved.</p><p>“He played OK,” Long said of Kaehler’s performance. “He managed the game, but it wasn’t his best game by far. He got pressured early.</p><p>“In the second half the offensive line was much better and we were able to run the ball and then he threw OK.”</p><p>Kaehler finished 17 of 34 for 265 yards and a touchdown.</p><p> Next game: vs. Boise State, 7:35 p.m., Saturday (CBS Sports Network)</p><p> Notable: Safety Gabe Lemon has still not been cleared to play. He is suffering from a lingering neck stinger and has missed the last four games. To compound the sudden lack of depth at safety, Marcus Andrews, Lemon’s replacement, broke a knuckle in his hand against Hawaii. Lemon is still expected to play against Boise State, but will likely do so with a club-like cast on his hand. &#8230; DL Sam Meredith is day to day with a labrum tear. … LB Derek Largent continues to struggle with knee and ankle issues, but is probable for the Boise State game.</p> UNLV </p><p>UNLV is expecting to play in some un-Las Vegas-type conditions Thursday at Air Force.</p><p>Weather.com forecasts a high of 31 degrees and a low of 12 with a 90 percent chance of snow.</p><p>The Rebels played in similar conditions the last time they visited the state of Colorado, and it didn&#039;t work out so well for them. They committed four first-half turnovers, three of which led directly to touchdowns, in a 33-11 loss at Colorado State last November.</p><p>But coach Bobby Hauck takes the approach of not worrying about what he can&#039;t control.</p><p>“I lived in Colorado for four years, and if you don’t like weather, just wait five minutes,” Hauck said. “So we’re not going to worry about it too much. We’ll dress for it, and I think this football team’s mentally tough enough to go and play hard regardless of what the climate is.”</p><p>This is the third attempt for UNLV (5-5, 3-3 MW) to become bowl eligible for the first time since 2000. The Rebels came up short in their two prior tries, losing 34-24 to San Jose State and 28-24 to Utah State.</p><p>They had a week off to prepare for Air Force (2-8, 0-6).</p><p>If conditions were clear, the Rebels would figure to have an even better chance to beat the struggling Falcons. As it is, oddsmakers have made UNLV a 1-point underdog.</p><p>Not that UNLV is making an issue of the weather.</p><p>“I think the way you have to go into a game is  weather’s not a problem,” quarterback Caleb Herring said. “If you let that become a distraction, you’re letting it beat you before the game even starts.”</p><p> Next game: at Air Force, 6:30 p.m., Thursday (ESPNU)</p><p> Notable: Safety Frank Crawford, who leads UNLV with four interceptions, will not play because of an undisclosed injury. &#8230; Tim Cornett is 30 yards rushing from 1,000 and Devante Davis is 52 yards receiving from the same mark. UNLV has never had a 1,000-yard rusher and receiver in the same season. Cornett also is trying to join Mike Thomas (1973-74) as the school&#039;s only two-time 1,000-yard rusher. &#8230; UNLV is 1-7 at Falcon Stadium, the lone win occurring in 2001, a 34-10 victory.</p> AIR FORCE </p><p>Air Force didn’t exactly take it easy during its second off-week of the season, so there was no pushing it into an extra gear Monday as it continues to prepare for UNLV.</p><p>“We didn’t take any days off at all,” senior cornerback Steffon Batts said. “We’re trying to win these last two games.”</p><p>The Falcons (2-8) won’t have the luxury of December practices to develop their underclassmen as they’ll miss a bowl game for the first time in seven years, but coach Troy Calhoun said that didn’t impact his decision to keep the team on an intense schedule despite not playing this past week.</p><p>It likely played a factor that this week’s game falls on a Thursday, so there was no need to limit the team to a short week of preparation.</p><p>“We worked over the weekend,” said Calhoun said. “We have to. Just the advancement that we have to make and the investment we have to make in our younger guys, we have to take advantage of each day.”</p><p>UNLV will come to Falcon Stadium at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the home finale for Air Force. The Rebels (5-5) need one more victory to become bowl eligible for the first time since 2000. UNLV, which is also coming off an open week, closes with a home game against San Diego State.</p><p> Next game: vs. UNLV, 6:30 p.m., Thursday (ESPNU)</p><p> Notes: Noseguard Robert Green, who missed the season’s first seven games with an MCL injury before returning to play a huge part in a victory over Army, has injured the PCL in the same knee and will miss the final two games. Calhoun said that surgery won’t necessarily be required for Green’s latest injury and he could be recovered in about six weeks. &#8230; Linebacker Joey Nichol is out this week and may not return after injuring his groin against Army. 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In the past two games, the 5-foot-11, 203-pound sophomore has rushed for 603 yards and 10 touchdowns on 68 carries.</p><p>He leads the FBS in touchdowns (25) and points (150) and is No. 2 in rushing with 1,439 yards, trailing only the 1,801 yards of Boston College&#039;s Andre Williams.</p><p>He was the Walter Camp Foundation national player of the week and won an ESPN Helmet Sticker. He was selected one of four nominees for the Capital One Impact Performance of the Week on Saturday night, and Monday was named the Mountain West Conference&#039;s offensive player of the week for the second week in a row.</p><p>People across the country are talking about the Colorado State running back, even if they can&#039;t talk directly to him.</p><p>&#034;I think it&#039;s awesome,&#034; McElwain said Monday. &#034;And I think it&#039;s something that shows the hard work of a lot of guys around a guy, and yet, because of that, as I have said, his name does show up in the box score. And that&#039;s pretty cool. In fact it&#039;s really cool.&#034;</p><p>Bibbs already has set single-season CSU records for touchdowns and points and moved up to No. 5 on the career list for rushing touchdowns in a season with 25 this year, one more than Gartrell Johnson, Damon Washington and Oscar Reed had in their entire careers and just one shy of the career totals of Bradlee Van Pelt and Kevin McDougal. Only Steve Bartalo, with 46, and Cecil Sapp, with 29, have scored more.</p><p> Next game: at Utah State, 12:30 p.m., Saturday (CBS Sports Network)</p><p> Notable: McElwain defended his policy of not allowing first-year players in his program to talk to the media, saying there&#039;s a lot of individual development going on when an athlete first enters the program in terms of academic demands and social adjustments and that talking to reporters is &#034;part of the right of passage&#034; for those who have been in the program and understand what it is to be engrained in the green and gold. &#034;My biggest thing is it&#039;s to help the development of a young man in his life. There&#039;s going to be time; it&#039;s not like it&#039;s never going to happen. And yet I guess my excitement is that you guys want to (talk to Bibbs).  That, to me, is cool.&#034; … Backup running backs Donnell Alexander (knee) and Davon Riddick (ankle) are expected back after missing the New Mexico game with injuries. … CSU announced a noon kickoff time for its regular-season finale Nov. 30 against Air Force.</p> NEW MEXICO </p><p>Kasey Carrier&#039;s college football career is over.</p><p>Cole Gautsche&#039;s is on hold.</p><p>New Mexico coach Bob Davie said Gautsche, a sophomore quarterback, and Carrier, a senior running back, will not play in the Lobos&#039; final two games this season. Both exhibited concussion symptoms after absorbing blows to the head during UNM&#039;s 66-42 loss to Colorado State last Saturday.</p><p>Gautsche&#039;s latest injury raises red flags. He missed a game last year with concussion symptoms and sat out this year&#039;s game at UTEP after a similar incident in the season opener against UTSA.</p><p>Regarding the young quarterback&#039;s football future, Davie declined to speculate. But he said: &#034;We&#039;re going to take one step at a time. Cole&#039;s a very important (player), but more important than all that is Cole.</p><p>&#034;We&#039;re going to pull out all stops to make sure we do everything we can to first diagnose exactly what the problem is, how severe the problem is moving forward and always, obviously, err with caution.&#034;</p><p>Carrier, a preseason All-Mountain West Conference selection, finishes his senior season with 1,122 yards rushing and 3,233 &#8212; good for fifth on New Mexico&#039;s all-time list &#8212; for his career.</p><p>Junior Clayton Mitchem will start at quarterback Saturday for UNM at 15th-ranked Fresno State. Junior Crusoe Gongbay is the likely starter at running back.</p><p>&#034;Man down, man up,&#034; Davie said. &#034;Next one in.&#034;</p><p> Next game: at Fresno State, 1 p.m., Saturday (ESPNews)</p><p> Notable: New Mexico&#039;s season finale at Boise State (Nov. 30) will be aired on ESPN2, meaning UNM will &#8212; as per the Mountain West&#039;s TV contract &#8212; pick up a $500,000 bonus. But the Lobos will have to earn it, facing the Broncos (7-3, 5-1) in Boise  with an 8:15 p.m. (local) kickoff. Brrr. &#8230; Backup linebackers Tevin Newman and David Orvick also are lost for the final two games due to injury, Davie said. Starting offensive guard Jamal Price is &#034;50-50&#034; with a shoulder injury. &#8230; On the good news/bad news statistical scale, New Mexico ranks second in the nation in rush offense (323.8 yards per game) and 122nd &#8212; ahead of only downstate rival New Mexico State &#8212; in rush defense (262.7). &#8230; Punter Ben Skaer has stepped on the field only as a holder the past two weeks as the Lobos scored 87 points in splitting games against Air Force and Colorado State. He&#039;s ranked fourth nationally with an average of 46.5. Had Skaer punted once in either game, he would have dropped out of the NCAA rankings without the required 3.6 attempts per contest. 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Wells said his players are well aware of that fact.</p><p>“We&#039;re playing for something,” Wells said. “We&#039;re in the middle of the Mountain West race and who knows how this thing is going to unfold here in the next couple of weeks. We&#039;ve got a 12-day stretch here where we&#039;ve got to give everything we&#039;ve got from both a coaching standpoint and a player standpoint.”</p><p> Next game: Vs. Colorado State, 12:30 p.m., Saturday (CBS Sports Network)</p><p> Notable: Utah State will be facing two coaches it knows well this weekend. Offensive coordinator Dave Baldwin was in the same role with the Aggies before going to Colorado State and oversaw Wells&#039; hire, while Art Valero was an assistant at Utah State while Wells was a player. … Wells also said he was familiar with Colorado State QB Garrett Grayson, whom he tried to recruit to Louisville: “He&#039;s a great character man, a great leader with a lot of moxie and mojo. The kid is playing really, really well right now and I&#039;m happy for him. I hope he doesn&#039;t play as well as us, but I&#039;m happy for him because I know him so well.”</p> WYOMING </p><p>The Cowboys are going to a college basketball approach for their final two regular season games.</p><p>&#034;This is a tournament,&#034; interim defensive coordinator Jamar Cain said. &#034;Are we going to win this championship or go home? Our backs are against the wall.&#034;</p><p>Cain said he drew a basketball bracket on a board for his players to show them what&#039;s in front of them, and it starts by having to beat winless Hawaii at home on Saturday.</p><p>Wyoming (4-6, 2-4) has lost four straight by a combined score of 199-83, but if it wins its last two games it will become bowl eligible for the third time in coach Dave Christensen&#039;s five seasons. That has become the top goal in the program right now.</p><p>&#034;You have to go hard or go home,&#034; senior receiver Robert Herron said. &#034;There&#039;s no more talking we can do, or no more motivating. Players have to motivate themselves. Some have embraced this, but I think we have to get others to get into it, too.&#034;</p><p>No matter the outcome Saturday, the Cowboys end the regular season a week from Saturday at Utah State (6-4, 5-1). UW has not defeated a team with a winning record this season. Utah State has the league&#039;s best scoring defense (19.4 points per game), rushing defense (127.3 yards per game) and passing defense (220.9 ypg).</p><p>But the Cowboys&#039; emphasis is on Hawaii, which despite being winless has had some close games.</p><p>The Rainbow Warriors lost at home 28-21 in overtime to San Diego State last Saturday. They also lost by a combined 22 points to No. 15 Fresno State, San Jose State and Colorado State at home, and by two at UNLV. All those teams have .500 or better records.</p><p>Christensen said Hawaii &#034;isn&#039;t that far away&#034; from picking up its first win.</p><p> Next game: vs. Hawaii, 11 a.m., Saturday (MW Digital Network)</p><p> Notable: The left side of Wyoming&#039;s offensive line was missing for most of the Boise State game. Senior guard Tyler Strong was out with an injury and junior tackle Walker Madden left early in the game with an injury and didn&#039;t return. Madden, who had a walking boot on after the game, is probable this week. Strong is expected to play. &#8230; Junior strong safety Jesse Sampson is out for the rest of the season with an injury. Sampson started one game and played in four games and missed the first five games recovering from an Achilles injury in the spring.</p> FRESNO STATE </p><p>Fresno State dropped one spot to No.15 in the BCS standings coming off its bye week, which did not sit too well with receiver Davante Adams.</p><p>&#034;I don&#039;t want to make bold statements that&#039;d be seen as disrespect to other teams, but we feel we could compete and beat anybody,&#034; he said. &#034;We know we have guys that can match up with those guys (from big-name schools).</p><p>&#034;When you know what you&#039;re capable of and the things that you can do and who you can play with, it kind of gets frustrating a little bit. They got a lot of talent over there, sure. But when you&#039;re one of only six undefeated teams left, that should be something more.</p><p>&#034;A &#039;W&#039; is a &#039;W&#039; and you can&#039;t apologize for victories. Being from a big-name school or whatever, but you&#039;ve got two or three losses and you&#039;re ranked ahead of us? I don&#039;t get it sometimes.&#034;</p><p>Adams, who on Monday was selected as a semifinalist for the Biletnikoff Award, said his frustration has been building.</p><p>&#034;I feel like if there was some way to even play those teams &#8230; I know that&#039;s what the bowl game is for,’’ he said. “It&#039;s just kind of lingering with me for a while. I try not to think about it too much or harp on that stuff too much since we can&#039;t control it. We&#039;ve done as much as we can do.&#034;</p><p> Next game: vs. New Mexico, 1 p.m., Saturday (ESPNews)</p><p> Notable: Fresno State used its bye week to use up most of the NCAA evaluation days it had remaining. The staff has a pretty humorous history on the recruiting trail. Offensive line coach Cameron Norcross was an assistant at Nevada in 2008 when Kevin Hart from Fernley, Nev., held the infamous press conference to make an oral commitment to Cal, a school that was not recruiting him. That, Norcross said, had him scrambling for a bit. “I went back and watched his tape two more times to make sure I didn’t miss anything, because he’s an O-lineman and he’s right up the road,’’ said Norcross, who had recruited Hart to walk on at Nevada. “It was a frantic couple of hours because there’s a kid in our backyard that’s committing to Cal that we hadn’t offered, so I’m thinking I have to go and try to justify it to Coach (Chris) Ault … why haven’t we offered this kid? I scrambled for a few hours.’’</p> HAWAII </p><p>Despite the 0-10 record, Hawaii coach Norm Chow said he plans to keep playing the best available players. Asked if UH should look ahead and play developing players, Chow said: &#034;That&#039;s not fair to the seniors. We&#039;re not giving up on this season. We&#039;re going to keep fighting and working. We&#039;ll worry about next year next year.&#034;</p><p>That means Sean Schroeder will remain as the No. 1 quarterback for the final two games. Schroeder is a fifth-year senior who transferred to UH last year after earning a bachelor&#039;s degree at Duke. Schroeder started 11 of 12 games in 2012, but ceded the No. 1 job after undergoing back surgery. Taylor Graham, a transfer from Ohio State, started the first three games this year before suffering a dislocation of his left (non-throwing) shoulder. Ikaika Woolsey started UH&#039;s fourth game, against Nevada, and Schroeder has been the No. 1 quarterback the past six games.</p><p>Joey Iosefa, a 6-foot, 233-pound running back, has been the most prolific Warrior the past two games. After being limited to two carries in the first eight games because of a fractured left foot, Iosefa rushed 35 times for 191 yards against Navy and a school-record 37 times for 150 yards against San Diego State. Iosefa, who was raised in American Samoa, was a soccer and volleyball standout before playing football in high school. He said he gained strength — he can bench press 445 pounds — by working on his family&#039;s taro farm.</p><p>The Warriors&#039; MVP this year has been Scott Harding, a 27-year-old junior who is the No. 1 punter, punt returner and slot receiver. He leads the Warriors in receptions (44) and fourth-quarter catches (22). Relying on a rollout, rugby-styled technique, Harding has punted 46 times, with only 10 returned for 40 yards. Three of those returns resulted in lost fumbles. None of his punts has been a touchback. Harding played Australian rules football for six years before joining the Warriors in August 2011. He was supposed to grayshirt and join UH in January 2012. But he did not want to wait, and instead paid for his first semester at UH.</p><p> Next game: at Wyoming, 11 a.m., Saturday (MW Digital Network)</p><p> Notable: This will be the Warriors&#039; third cold-weather game this month. They played Utah State on Nov. 2 and Navy on Nov. 9. The teams will be battling for the Paniolo Trophy, sort of. A replica of the original trophy recently was made. Paniolo is the Hawaiian word for cowboy. … Noting that Wyoming has lost to Boise State, Utah State, Colorado State, Fresno State, etc., Chow jokingly said UH will be known as &#034;Hawaii State&#034; this week.</p><p>— Contributors: Kelly Lyell, Fort Collins Coloradoan; Brent Briggeman, Colorado Springs Gazette; Chadd Cripe, Idaho Statesman; Rick Wright, Albuquerque Journal; Robert Kuwada, Fresno Bee; Kyle Goon, The Salt Lake Tribune; Robert Gagliardi, Wyoming Tribune Eagle; Stephen Tsai, Honolulu Star-Advertiser; Jimmy Durkin, San Jose Mercury News; Stephanie Loh, San Diego Union-Tribune; Mark Anderson, Las Vegas Review-Journal. </p> This entry was posted in Uncategorized . Bookmark the permalink . <strong><a href="http://www.ejian365.com/">swiss replica watches</a></strong>
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Sunday, October 20, 2013
(Published in print: Sunday, October 20, 2013)
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“Well, now I can cross that off my list.”
Our ship, the Maasdam, was barely 10 minutes out of the gate — the cruise terminal in Montreal — when passenger Leo Croteau shortened his bucket list by one: the St. Lawrence River. Australia, Prague and a Christmas show in Branson, Mo., advanced a line.
No two travelers share the same wanderlust list. For example, none of the six ports of call or two bodies of water on Holland America’s Canada and New England Discovery itinerary originally appeared on my fantasy-trip card. But on a seven-day cruise this month, I considered a revision.
From May through October, when fall’s technicolors peak, the Maasdam hopscotches around the lobster claw of northeastern North America. Starting in Montreal, the ship sails along the St. Lawrence River, glides into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, then drops into the Atlantic. In Boston, the final destination, she reverses course. (Passengers can choose either direction or sail the entire 14-day loop.)
En route, the vessel weaves together a macrame of stops: Quebec City; Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island; Sydney and Halifax, Nova Scotia; and Bar Harbor, Maine. The schedule also incorporates a full day on the St. Lawrence, a 576-mile chug that distance-counters will note as the longest leg of the 1,654-mile trip.
“The St. Lawrence is beautiful, and the cruising is intense. The ports are not easy to go into and out of, and the weather is challenging later in the season,” said Arno Jutten, the Maasdam’s Dutch captain. “You don’t book this cruise for the sunshine.”
So why commit to a cruise that’s susceptible to strong winds, powerful currents and thick fog that swallows up the shore? Because of the ports rich in Canadian history and culture. Because of the fiery foliage along New England banks. Because of announcements like this one: “Whales to starboard.” And because adventure should be on everyone’s bucket list.
Until the Holland America sojourn, my cruising CV was a single-space page of southern cruises, specifically in the Caribbean. Not to boast, but I could probably name a ship’s destination based solely on the tours and souvenirs being hawked. Atlantis and conch shells — Nassau. Mayan ruins and margaritas — Cozumel. Dunn’s River Falls and Bob Marley dreadlock hats — Ocho Rios, Jamaica.
The Canadian and New England ports were less self-evident. Sure, I could match the redheaded Anne of Green Gables with PEI and Acadia National Park with Bar Harbor, but the bike trip to Montmorency Falls? Hmm. The puffin nests on Bird Islands? Huh. Lunenburg, which wears the UNESCO World Heritage site badge? I was stumped. (The answers: Quebec, Sydney and Halifax, respectively.)
Other notable differences: On Caribbean cruises, the pools resemble shallow aquariums full of squirming bodies. Chaises are hot commodities. In fact, many passengers remain onboard during port stops to enjoy the extra inch of outdoor deck real estate.
By contrast, on the Maasdam, the lounge chairs surrounding the swimming squares were often empty. When they were occupied, the individuals using them were frequently swaddled in thick blue towels worn as leg warmers and a capelet. Only a few hardy souls took a dip, often bouncing between the pool, the hot tubs and their robes.
At many of the ports, our 1,258-passenger ship was the only cruising vessel, though at 720 feet in length, the Maasdam still dwarfed the dainty settings. Many passengers disembarked early and didn’t return until later in the day. (We typically had seven or eight hours on land.) My windowless inside cabin messed with my circadian rhythm (8 a.m. was as dark as midnight), so I wasn’t one of the first, or even 50th, off the ship. But I tried my best to be the last to return.
In Quebec City, for instance, I spent the first half of the day scrambling around the stone walls of the fortified town and wading through the cheeses, fruit jams and pastel-colored macarons at Marche du Vieux Port, the city’s largest farmers market. With a few hours left on the clock, I ventured over to Saint-Roch, a neighborhood that underwent a Cinderella transformation around the turn of the century.
Saint-Roch Church peers down upon the high-end boutiques (galoshes that slip over high heels!), cafes and home decor emporiums on Rue Saint-Joseph. The landmark building was named for the 14th-century Frenchman who suffered from bubonic plague and was nursed back to health by a dog. I entered the side door expecting to find a sacred setting of stained-glass windows and Saskatchewan marble pocked with fossil imprints. Instead, I discovered a temple of fashion featuring Quebecois designers. To make amends for buying another pair of earrings, I entered the church through the official front portal and vowed to pet the next dog I came across.
When the ship departed at 5 p.m., I joined a thin ribbon of passengers at the railing. As the city dissolved into the distance, many guests retreated inside, tempted by the warmth and the sampling of local specialties on the Lido Deck.
I remained to watch the Maasdam gracefully slide between the buoys paralleling the river banks. In the Caribbean, the water is silent, muted by the immensity of the sea. The St. Lawrence River, however, was full of soft voices. The sounds emanated from storybook homes tucked beneath florets of trees and farms pitched on groomed hills. A light glowed from inside a stone chapel, a reassuring beacon for all who sailed these darkening waters.
The Maasdam was, first and foremost, a mode of transportation. She delivered us to our promised ports. More utilitarian than romantic, I know. However, in between stops, the ship’s crew members would don a toque or a professor’s robe and enrich passengers with lively presentations about the upcoming destination.
This spring, the cruise line unveiled a new program called On Location, which highlights the culture, food, arts and history of the area outside your stateroom window. In Nova Scotia, the staff set up a poutine bar featuring the classic ingredients (fries, gravy, cheese curds) plus some non-traditional toppings (blue-cheese crumbles, curry ketchup sauce, hot dog bites). At the Culinary Arts Center, a demo kitchen, a chef showed guests how to prepare a New England clambake, a Julia Child production that turned into an I Love Lucy episode when the stove misbehaved. And during our at-sea day, from Quebec City to Charlottetown, the cruise director held a lecture called “Oh Canada!” Oh, how little I knew about Canada.
Michael Harvey, a Saskatchewan native, made us all smarter with his talk of the nation. He touched on its history (familiarize yourselves with French explorer Jacques Cartier), nomenclature (“kanata” means “village” in the language of the Huron-Iroquois), currency (the government began phasing out the one-cent coin in February) and flags (the maple leaf design first appeared in 1965). He also threw in some arcane facts that will come in handy if you’re ever at a cocktail party with a Canadian lieutenant governor.
Dare to impress: Canada is a major world exporter of green lentils, with the bulk of those legumes grown in Saskatchewan. Ottawa is home to the world’s largest naturally frozen ice rink, the Ri-deau Canal Skateway, and every year residents of Victoria count the city’s flowers one blossom at a time. And on Flag Day (Feb. 15), throw out this random morsel: A wind test determined the number of points on the flag’s maple leaf; 11 blurred the least on a gusty day.
To further my schooling in Canadiana, I went ashore. In Charlottetown, the provincial capital of PEI, I stepped on the same floorboards as the visionaries of the confederation. In September 1864, delegates from Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, PEI and the province of Canada (Ontario and Quebec) convened in Province House to discuss the idea of a union.
“It was really about schmoozing and getting to know each other,” said a Parks Canada ranger. “They wanted to see if they were compatible going forward as a nation.”
On July 1, 1867, the men’s seed of an idea bloomed into a country.
In Halifax, while other passengers boarded pink double-decker buses and horse-drawn trolleys, I hopped into the sidecar of a Russian motorcycle for my instruction.
Vicki Gesner, who runs Bluenose Sidecar Tours with her husband, Kevin Wile, was behind the handlebars. I was the sidekick, a kittenish Darth Vader in a black helmet with a pink camera. Together we rode through the streets of Halifax, Vicki providing running commentary through a microphone.
“When I shut up,” she said as we turned into traffic, “it’s because I’m concentrating on my driving.”
In our motorcycle built for two (or three, if someone sits behind the driver), we zipped around the waterfront and downtown. We started along the Halifax Harbor, where Vicki pointed out the hulking Navy facility, an unbroken link to Halifax’s origins as a garrison city.
“Our whole reason for being here is military,” she said.
To describe the Halifax Explosion of 1917, she pulled off to the side of the road so that I could better visualize the disaster. From our position, the Norwegian vessel would have sat to my left and the explosives-laden French ship would have floated to my right, idling near nets that protected the harbor from sneaky enemy watercraft. The ships collided in the Narrows on a December morning, igniting a blast that destroyed four square miles and killed nearly 2,000 people.
Driving toward the A. Murray MacKay Bridge, I noticed a street sign that read “Africville.” In the 1960s, the city evicted residents of the black community and razed their homes in the name of urban development. In 2011, the Africville Museum opened on the land of the former settlement, but the bruise on the city is slow to heal.
“It was recent history; it happened in my lifetime,” Vicki said as we drove by the replica church that houses the museum. “We never learned about it in school, and we should have.”
We stretched our legs only twice during the 21/2-hour excursion, even though the sidecar had more than enough toe-wiggle room. Pulling up to Fairview Lawn Cemetery, Vicki told me that Titanic victims are buried in three graveyards, one of many shipwreck-related misconceptions she cleared up during the tour.
“Jack Dawson was not a real person,” she said, referring to the Leo DiCaprio character in the Titanic movie and deleting another falsehood. The “J.” on the Dawson gravestone stands for James, a stoker on the doomed ship.
We returned to the terminal at 3 p.m., a half-hour before boarding. Passengers were disembarking from buses.
“Give me a hug and get on the ship,” Vicki said.
I waited for her to drive off, then hooked a left toward the waterfront. I walked along the river until it was really time to go.
Every day, the captain spoke to the passengers. In his announcements, he would blend nautical stats such as our distances and speed with sightseeing tips and weather alerts.
For example, after setting sail from Montreal, he informed us that en route to Quebec City, we would pass under several power lines and bridges, often clearing the structures with only feet to spare. At 11 p.m., he said, we would change pilots, and at 5:45 a.m., the ship would sail under the Quebec Bridge. During the night, we would possibly also experience strong currents.
“We might heel from time to time,” he said, “but it’s completely normal.”
Following the visit to Charlottetown, the captain introduced a new character in the sea drama: Tropical Storm Gabrielle. The storm was about 50 miles south of Bermuda, he noted, and we would “enter the sphere of influence” in a few days. But, he assured us, “it’s no threat to the ship.” The next day, the storm was “still very far away.” On the eve of our Maine arrival, Gabrielle was downgraded to a depression, a mere sneeze.
But the captain wasn’t finished with his weather reports. In Bar Harbor, the land vanished in the morning fog. We were a fat noodle drifting in a bowl of thick gray mist. With low visibility, he halted the tenders to shore. Crew members read off excursion cancellations. Guests groaned and dealt another hand of cards. This could take a while.
While waiting for the town to materialize, I took the opportunity to update my bucket list. Cruising adventure in Canada and New England — complete.
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