Summary:
- Distance Traveled: 950 km
- Time on the Road: 13 hrs
- Random things seen: A LOT
After a terrible night on a very hard mattress (one of the worst AirBnB experiences of the trip), I at least got to have coffee in a nice garden before getting on the road. With a goal of getting some kilometers behind us, D and I got on the road early and made tracks toward Quebec. We drove almost 1000 kilometers from Ottawa up to the Gaspé peninsula.
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| typical church of rural Quebec |
Rural Quebec is quite beautiful. It was weird though; every little town we drove through (and it was a lot ... I'll get to that later) had a huge, ornate, relatively new church. Almost all of them had a shiny silver spire (or two or three) on top ...
We were on the scenic route so that I could try to track down another lake ... I don't know what my deal is with lakes on this trip ... this one took some hunting because, again, no signs. It was in an old quarry that I was hoping to be able to get a peek at. It took us a while (and maybe 50 kms of back tracking) but finally we found it. Sadly, the road had been blocked off so we couldn't get a great look. This was one of those times were I wished I had more than just my cell phone camera to take pictures ... quelle dommage, non?
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| Quarry Lake, photo by D |
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| Along the drive, in some little town |
After our little walk about (or drive about, I suppose), we pushed agian to make tracks toward Halifax. I wanted to be home by Sunday evening ... I guess I reached the point where I was ready to be done and off the road. The drive along the Saint Lawrence was really beautiful. Again again, I am amazed at how gorgeous (and different) Canada is. I had an art installation that I wanted to go see in Sainte Falvie so were weren't going to take the TransCanada into New Brunswick and on back to Halifax ... so a slight detour was necessary in order to get a few photos. The first being ... Saint-Louise-du-Ha!Ha!. This is the actual name of a town ...
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| Ha! Ha! |
As is ...
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| I prefer to say "Piss-toll-es" |
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| A pretty sunset |
After some more photos of the gorgeous sunset, I realized it was way later than is polite to check into an AirBnB and we hurried to Saint-Fabien, were we holed up for the night.
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| From the pier in Trois-Pistoles, stylized by google |
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