Day 8, 9, 10 & 11

Day 8:
We drove from Montreal to Quebec city on this day. It was a most enjoyable drive with lovely scenery of the Eastern Townships. I think it was the most unique Quebec scenery so far with its 'small' farms, the unique style of housing. and the general lay of the land. We particularly enjoyed the small villages with the narrow streets and the churches dominantly placed right in the centre of town.

Once we got to our campsite in St. Nicolais and set up our trailer we took off to visit Quebec City. This was the last day of the 400 year celebration of the city. There were festivities all over town. We told Linda (our digital navigator for this trip) to take us to the centre of town. Well that is where all the celebrations were held so many streets were blocked and we had a few detours to take, but we finally arrived and found parking close to St. Abraham Square, ending up right in the centre of all the activities. Unfortunately we did not have tickets to the performance for that evening, Linda Lemay and Charles Aznavour, but we did tremendously enjoy all the other free performances and went back to our trailer tired but very satisfied with the day.

There will be a change in the blog from now one. Our pictures will be uploaded to our Picasa albums with a link for each day in our daily blog, rather than appearing in a growing list of images at the end of the blog.

Leo did reasonably well in his driving today. He passed 3 highway construction vehicles, one truck and one tractor.

The pictures for today can be found at photos for Day 8

Day 9:

This is were we start our first day on the way to the Gaspe peninsula and drove along the St. Lawrence River. We took secondary Highway 132 again so we could enjoy the small townships. We have followed this highway the entire distance from Montreal and plan to take it all the way around the Gaspe and into New Brunswick. We had a few delays with road repairs but other than that the drive was good. We made good time to our next stop even with Leo taken pictures.
We arrived at our next campsite, Ste Luce around 3:30 pm and were met by the most friendly camp hostess. She showed us to our spot and told us it was a very nice comfortable site where we could put our table in the shade of a tree and would be close to the bathrooms. We must have looked yellow around the eyes to her to lead her to place us so close to the bathrooms.
But we did enjoy her hospitality even though the campground did not have internet. Once we set up the camper we went for a nice walk along the beach and back.

After supper we did some reading until bed time and had another night's good sleep.

It was another good day for Leo. He passed three cars no less, one truck and one tractor. Two other tractors would have been passed by him as well, but they saw him coming and turned off the road before he could quite pass them. They must have been worried about being teased by their neighbours about being passed by that crazy Calgarian. Leo also passed a garbage truck today. True, it was on stop and go runs to pick up garbage, but at the point at which he passed it it had not quite come to a stop so Leo insisted it counted as a pass. Had it been stopped he would not have been able to count it so he is glad that he accelerated so that he did just pull by before the truck came to a complete stop.

Today's pictures can be found at photos for Day 9
Day 10:

Today Leo wanted to take a rest day. I guess work and all the driving finally caught up to him. We stayed in our trailer pretty well all day as it rained most of the day. Good thing we both like reading. Leo worked on his pictures and got them all sorted out and backed-up so they are safely stored away now.

Leo did not pass any vehicles today.

Day 11:
Today we got up early and moved on along highway 132 to the Gaspe. We started out with dry weather but about half way through we ended up in the clouds and rain. Again a very nice drive and lots to see. Personally I found the drive from Montreal to Quebec city nicer.

We arrived at our campsite around 3:30 pm and this time we have internet. We plan on staying here an extra night so we can do some sight seeing around the bay.

Leo was too busy looking a the scenery to count traffic he passed. But there must have been dozens of them!

The pictures for today can be found at photos for Day 11.