Arriving Quebec (8-11-2015)

This morning we left the beautiful area where Collins and Marilyn grew up, and headed east.  This area is bountiful with lakes and rivers, waterfalls, lush forests and lots of green.  We had a really good time here, but it is time to move on.  Collins had packing-up stuff to finish, since they had such a full day yesterday, but we were ready to pull out by 9:25.  Collins took the lead of our little caravan today, since he knows this area, and we headed to Brockville to get on Hwy 2.  This was a pretty drive, with frequent views of the St. Lawrence Seaway.  We passed a bridge over to the U.S., the Johnstown Bridge, which Joe thought was the Johnson Bridge and was glad to know the Johnsons' hadn't spread their wings this far north.


We saw a few wild turkeys along the road, and some Canadian geese.  I am glad to see all the Canadian Geese haven't immigrated permanently to the U.S.!  As we drove through Cornwall, we spotted buoys being used as yard decoration.

We crossed into the province of Quebec about 12:30, and all the highway signs became only French (In Ontario, the road signs were bilingual). 

We had to pay a toll ($7.40) in Quebec, which was a surprise.  Joe used his credit card (we didn't know how much it was going to cost), and the machine didn't want to give back the credit card.  Finally, the booth clerk had to take the machine apart to get his credit card back out.  Our fellow travelers had pulled on through but we caught up with them pretty quickly.
The city of Montreal does not have any camping within its limits -- it's sort of an island.  So we are staying at a small campground in St. Philippe (a suburb, I think).  We had to cross the Fluve Saint-Laurent (St. Lawrence River) to get here, and it's not very far away.

The voltage is not very strong at this campground either.  We've had several occasions of this problem on this trip, and we have to juggle our use of electricity -- no A/C and microwave at the same time.  It was pretty warm when we got here, but we had a little rain storm move through about 6:30 that cooled things off.  "A little warm" was probably about 80, but the RV had heated up in the registering/setting up process.

We were off the road about 3:00, drove 156 miles today.  We are going to tour Montreal tomorrow, probably a grayline bus tour, so we are at this campground for 2 nights.  We were glad to be on the move again, but we certainly did enjoy the time we spent with Collins and Marilyn's family.