Dec 7, 2025
The Smiling Land is a celebration of Alan's
Newfoundland, in its legendary past and brilliant future.
The music, the bays, towns, villages, and 12-hour ferry rides
to get you halfway to where you're going.
Alan is the tour guide, something he's actually done!
Besides the reader, along for the drives are his beloved wife
and teenage son.
To go camping, they're pulling a small trailer home
behind.
FYI - Alan hates camping and driving.
I swear, many of us will find a way to take the same
drive - just once in our lives.
The history, the legends, the forming of the first real
settlements in North America. Characters who thought nothing of
leaving their homes, sailing the North Atlantic and starting again
in a wild new world.
Many towns, bays, lakes, mountains and forests were named
after those "characters". And many a song and story has been handed
down.
The complete Alan Doyle Experience can be heard on The
Stew this Saturday. Driven by four Doyle Songs, including
his latest.