Sunday, July 20, 2014

Cleveland, Montreal, Quebec, New Brunswick

The past couple of weeks have rolled right along.  Had a great visit to the Rock n Roll museum and hall of fame in Cleveland.  Worth a stop if you get near. Then moved on east.  Stayed at KOA's respectively south of Montreal and then Quebec city for a few days  so we could visit the cities by simply crossing a bridge over the St. Lawrence River in each place and not have to drive through the city traffic.  Much to see and do in both of those areas, the usual tourist stuff and ate our way through both places.  Missed a great little place in St. Romuald as it was closed one night and the next night they were holding a private party.  Did have a great dinner at Intimiste in Levis, not far from the ferry.
Our French is poor, Susie's better than mine which is mostly non-existent but more and more Quebecois are speaking English.

On south from Quebec into New Brunswick and in looking for a campground, following a new GPS which I don't like much at all (Magellan 5120 LXT), we ended up on a small country road going nowhere.   I saw a couple of guys looking at us like we were crazy and when I pulled over by a bridge to make a U-Turn, one of them came up to the window and said, you must be lost.  Yep, I said, we are.  He said he had a farm there but lived about 6 miles away and we could camp in his driveway where he had a 30 amp plug in.  We thanked him and said we had reservations at a campground and he insisted on taking us there so we wouldn't get lost or try to go under too low clearance.  So, we took him and his wife out to dinner in Woodstock, NB, and he took us home to show us their new house, two of his three restored tractors (very big International Harvesters) and stories of the past winter and results of the "hurricane" Arthur that flooded his farm and cows.  You just never know where you might end up if you don't know where you're going.

We are currently just outside of Moncton and headed for Nova Scotia this week, will be staying at Scotia Pine RV Park near Truro, probably leave the rig parked there to explore Cape Breton and other parts of Nova Scotia including Halifax and other points of interest.  Will be close to the tidal bore in the Bay of Fundy and report on all of this and more later.

PS - The U-Turn was too sharp and bent a shaft on the tow bar which necessitated a replacement. Went with a heavier duty version of Blue Ox, Aventa LX.  The swivel ball looks cool!

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