Day 27, July 24, 2007

Day 27, Monday, July 24, 2007
We got a fairly good start today and traveled along the St. Lawrence River. What a beautiful drive. The St Lawrence starts off as fresh water than slowly blends until it is salt water at the Gulf. I am not sure how wide it is or how wide I expected but it is wide. On my GPS it varies from just under a mile to over 3 miles as you head to the mouth of the St. Lawrence. The tide was out on most of our drive and there was a lot of reedy land along the shore. In one place the shore was solid rock and all carved up by either the water action or glaciers, if and when they came through. We have kept to the shore road as much as we can, no point in being inland when it is the water that has all the views. Our elevation varied from 20 ft to about 700 feet on my GPS. The GPS sure has been handy for elevation and average moving times plus telling us where we are in relationship to where we should be. The highlight of the day was crossing the New Brunswick, not that we were happy to leave Quebec. We were amazed at the churches we could see driving up the St. Lawrence. Some of the time we were driving on a rise and to the south you could see for several miles, in a valley, and two very prominent items were the churches and the silos on the farms. Lots of farms and lots of skinny fields. They must have been in the family for generations. If you Google Earth, in this area you can see them fanning out from the River. All seemed to be very well kept up. The land seems to change as you come into the boundaries for the individual provinces as if the change in the land was one way of deciding where the boundary was going to be located. Coming into New Brunswick the land got hillier. We came through Dalhousie and found a nice campsite on the south side of town The Blue Herron Campsite. I was having a problem with the spark plug wire again and had bought a new one to replace the old one that got broken when they worked on the gasket for the exhaust manifold. Got that done and a little work in the diary and it was time for bed. Well not quite like that. We do most of our cooking outside, I have the portable BBQ and a propane campstove and a ten pound tank with an attachment that allows me to hook up 3 appliances. It takes me about 5 minutes to set up, and the same to take down. Saves heating the motor home up and its nice to be out sideafter spending all day traveling. Keeps some of the cooking smells outside as well. Willa and Tegan are travelling well but it is a lot of driving. Wish Celeste, our 15 year old granddaughter, had come for company for Tegan. But she felt it would be too much driving and she would have been right but they would have had more fun traveling together and could have done more things together. We even thought of flying her out but would be quite costly. After driving most of the day it is nice to just sit back and relax. Well another day to the journey and another 30 plus to look forward to.