26 August 2013 Saint Apollinaire

We moved our rigs 255 miles from St. Leonard, New Brunswick, to the Domaine de la Chute Campground near Saint Apollinaire, Quebec, this rainy Monday. The Trans Canada Highway ran up and down major hills in New Brunswick and flat road through farmlands along the St. Lawrence River in Quebec. Some heavy-duty construction was taking place just across the border between the provinces for about 30 miles--huge clearing for new roads, massive culverts and freeway bridges, blasting out road cuts--very slow and rough. 

Once we got into Quebec all the road signs and instructions on the gas pumps were in French only. It made us feel unwelcome in the province, "Stay away if you don't speak French." Some of the road signs were confusing with no English translation. Most of the people we did business with today acted as if they could only speak French, but then they would speak English if they had to get the transaction done. It would be good for business to cater a bit to the English speakers--the official languages of Canada are French and English. It will be good to leave Quebec and get back into the good old US of A!

Tomorrow we enter New York just north of Champlain. Not looking forward to the US customs at the border crossing because we are not sure of the restrictions. The internet source was not clear on the matter. We will just go through, declare everything, and they will tell us what to do.

We have posted on our blog for August 21, still catching up.