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Published: June 26th 2017
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Geo: 47.3737, -68.3251
Today was moving day. We moved from PEI west making our way toward Huntsville, Ontario where we will visit for a few days with friends at their lake cottage. (It's really a 4 bedroom house, but they call it a cottage.) So, we left Charlottetown at 8:20 AM and 68 degrees. Before leaving the area, we decided to check out Rocky Point, which is a peninsula on the other side of Charlottetown Harbour. When we stopped to take photos, several cows made it clear that they wanted our attention, so we spent a little time visiting with them. Beamer thought they were interesting until he decided that barking was a more appropriate response to the fact that they were approaching our car. We then drove along the Gulf of St. Laurence on our way back to the Confederation Bridge. After stopping for a few minutes at a gift shop so that Steve could buy a hat, we paid the 46 CAD or $38 US toll and got to make the 7 mile crossing in a dense fog. We never saw any of the gulf at all today. And when we hit land on the other side, whala, the sun
was shining and the air was clear. Well, we saw in 2 days ago on the way over so it was what it was.
We made it a point to stop at Steve's favorite convenience store (the one that stiffed him for $5.00), and take a photo of the sign. Steve definitely wants to remember this place. See the photo.
Early on our trek today we gained a passenger…a common house fly. He entered the car and refused to exit despite my repeated coaxing. I did everything I could think of, but he would not leave. And my attempts to do him in were unsuccessful, too. He came all the way to Edmundston with us. Must have wanted a free ride to visit friends.
The drive today was otherwise uneventful. Most of it was through thick forest land…nothing but trees…nice healthy trees, but nonetheless, just trees. Eventually, when we approached the border of Maine, the road opened up and we could see hills and passages cut through the limestone to allow for the highway to pass through. We turned north and followed the border of Maine for miles. We were an elbow away from Houlton, then Presque Isle, then Van
Buren and finally Madawaska, always sandwiched between Maine and the St. John River. This river originates in northwestern Maine and travels some 400+ miles across Maine and New Brunswick to empty into the Bay of Fundy at Saint John, NB.
We arrived at our hotel in Edmundston, NB around 4:30 PM and got settled in for the night. Tomorrow we will cross into Quebec and travel all the way to Ottawa. On the way I will pass through Riviere-du-Loup, a small farming town near the Gulf of St. Lawrence where my grandmother was born and raised before immigrating to Maine as a young wife and mother. My head will be outside of the car as we pass through taking in the sights of this place where I still have family and my cousin, Jeannine, resides. I have never met her, though we have corresponded a number of times. Perhaps we will have time to visit with her next time through.
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Sharon Gauert
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Looks like beautiful country. Hope you enjoyed PEI; we loved our day there. Did you have lobster? Had the best lobster bisque.