Carrie Fisher died at the age of 60 on Tuesday morning after suffering from a heart attack on the weekend. Fisher, most well-known for her role as Princess Leia in Star Wars, was also an accomplished author and screenwriter. 

Fisher took a trip to Newfoundland and Labrador back in 2005 and wrote about it for The New York Times. She writes about her experience travelling from St. Johns to Dildo to Brigus with her family. An excerpt:

"The ride from St. John's is a picturesque drive through long stretches of green trees sprinkled with small homes here and there. As the roads smoothed out from rolling to winding, we found ourselves driving along the coast, looking at islands in the flat, gray ocean."

"So after some discussion, we move on to Brigus, a grossly undersold town in the Conception Bay area. This place is spectacular. It's like driving into the pages of "Our Town," or being in a Grandma Moses painting. It's a poem, a prayer -- a perfectly preserved 19th-century village right on land's end, where you can look down from the cliffs above the town onto the bright blue water of the bay below. With two churches on the hill opposite each other and a path leading to the cemetery, it's a place time forgot."

Fisher also talked about being "screeched in" in a St. John's bar. After the ritual, this is what Fisher had to say:

"So, finally, we are happy -- as happy as any honorary Newfoundlander can be, finding himself winding through this not so very new but exceptional place, with loads and loads of land that these nice, fun people live in."

Read the full article here.