Getting to the tip of Newfoundland's northern peninsula is not for the faint of heart. Suppose you start in Halifax (already further east than 99.5% of North America's population). You first have to drive 4-and-a-half hours to the far end of Cape Breton. Then you need to catch a 7-hour ferry to the south-western corner of Newfoundland. Once you are off the boat, you have a further seven-and-a-half hour drive, not including stops. But that is assuming you can drive at speed the whole time, which you probably can't: it's a single-lane in each direction most of the way. Once