The ride from Ottawa to Quebec City via routes 148, 344 and 138 was some of the best scenery we have ever driven/ridden through. I know I will have trouble finding words other than beautiful, spectacular, pretty, impressive, and gorgeous to describe most of the route. If anyone plans to drive this part of the country and has time to spare, take this way. Avoid the Trans Canada no matter what. The route is lined with farmstead after farmstead, cut out of the landscape into long skinny plots with the short end butting up against either the Ottawa River or the St. Lawrence. It reminded me, on a larger scale and rivers excepted, of Lincolnshire, the county in which I was born and grew up, where one small intimate village comprising brick cottages, farmhouses, bed and
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