I'm not going to lie, Torngat Mountains National Park is the reason I took this trip. I realize that this trip starts in Newfoundland and ends at the northern tip of Labrador. There's a lot of beautiful landscape, history and culture between those two points. But Torngat has been at the top of my life list for many years.

1) It's …

One of my favorite aspects of traveling solo are the friends I meet along the way. Not having a traveling companion means that I have to put myself out there, talk to strangers, and (gasp!) even share a cabin with another solo female traveler. I've always been very lucky to have excellent roommates (takes one to know one) and this time was …

Long-abandoned Hebron was once one of the most northerly communities on the north Labrador coast. A Moravian Mission station was constructed here from 1829 to 1831 but the main buildings - the church, the mission house and the store - were not inhabited until 1837.

In a highly controversial move, the station was abandoned in 1959, forcing the …

It has been said, "Gros Morne is to geology what the Galapagos are to biology." The Park's mountains are both picturesque, and highly unusual: the Tablelands, a 600m (1900 ft) high plateau, forms one of the world's best examples of ancient rock exposed from the earth's interior.

The Park's fjords are equally stunning, …

A UNESCO World Heritage Site, L'Anse Aux Meadows is the only authenticated Norse settlement in North America. The archeological remains found here in 1960 date to approximately 1000 A.D.

Amazingly, the location of the ruins was first established by a close reading of the Viking sagas.

Of course, this is not a real viking! But we liked him …

Landing on shore at Nain, we were greeted by the brass band of the Moravian Church. The brass band uses instruments and playing techniques that originated with the German-born Moravian missionaries who settled in Labrador in the eighteenth century. But the brass band tradition has been waning in recent years, with only a handful of adults …