Reflections of My Travel

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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.