Reflections of My Travel

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Had a yummy breakfast (I love B&Bs!) and then headed out. The owners had recommended that we take a tour-cruise of the Thousand Islands area so we set off with the intentions of doing that. We got there and purchased our tickets and the lady angered me (first not-nice Canadian we’d met). We waited around a little while but before long, there were 7 huge tour buses full of people there to get on the same boat as us. Since I was still perturbed by the ticket lady, and we didn’t feel like being sardines for a pleasure tour, we decided to get a refund and get on the road instead. We made it to Detroit just as the sun was getting low. I HAVE NOW BEEN TO ALL 48 CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES!!! (and 3 Canadian Provinces!) I was really surprised to see such nice foliage. To this point in our trip, MI had the nicest foliage.

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We got up this morning and did some more sight-seeing/photography around Vieux Québec during the daylight. I love this City!!! It is so wonderful! We then headed over to the Beaupré district to visit Le Parc de la Chute-Montmorency. The main waterfall was very large and pretty. The best part about it though was that you could get SO close to it. There was a platform that you could walk up to that was probably about 15′ from the foot of the falls. Of course, we did walk up there and got absolutely soaked! Which felt good in the very cold northern air. We then walked over to one of the smaller falls and then got on the road. Our goal was to make it past Montreal, into Ontario so that we could make it to Detroit tomorrow. We made it to a little town called Brooksville and stayed at a very nice B&B. If I could remember the name of it, I would give it a plug.

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Sadly, I left my nice little turret this morning. We had a nice country drive up through Canada. We stopped in Hartland, NB to see the World’s Longest Covered Bridge. It was pretty impressive. It has a little walking lane in the side of it that is called the “kissing lane” because, when the bridge was built in 1901, that was where a couple went to steal a kiss. A little further north, we pulled off in Grand Falls, NB to see the falls and gorge. It was a nice area and we walked around a little. We were getting closer to Québec and started seeing a lot of french on the signs. And when we stopped at McD’s to get something to eat, everyone was speaking french (of course, they did speak english for us). We had planned on stopping in Riviére du Loup for the night, but when we got to the Québec welcome center, we decided that there would be more to do tomorrow in Québec City. We drove nearly the whole way along the Saint Lawrence river, which is just huge, so it was a very pretty drive. Yes, by this time all of the road signs were completely french. Poor Randal. He was so frustrated with the lack of english signs and radio. I loved it. Not only because I like french, but also because it was nice to be inundated with another language beside español for a change. We got to Québec City right around sunset and went to eat at a place that the hotel clerk suggested, called Cosmos. It was really a spiffy place as far as atmosphere. Yes, we ate hamburgers. We then drove into old Québec (Vieux Québec) and went into the fort (inside the walls). I cannot even describe how magnificent the architecture is there! It was absolutely incredible. Especially all lit up in the night. We made such a great choice when we decided to drive there tonight.