The antithesis of Urban Montréal is Romantic Quebec. Of course we just walked around inside the fortified city that grew up in the 1700’s. We had flashbacks to our introduction to the old-world flavor of our two vacations in France in 1990 and 1999. The streets are narrow and crooked. The cars park on the sidewalk. If a truck is delivering something it simply blocks the whole street. Continue reading Romantic Quebec:
Category Archives: Travels
Urban Canada:
Well we have visited Ottawa Ontario and today we drove through a bit of Montreal Canada. Al Sinner drove us into the National Air Museum in Ottawa and it was a very fine museum indeed. Al drove as cool as a cucumber while Audrey, Gary and Judy gave conflicting directions and offered irrelevant commentary on everything that caught our attention. Continue reading Urban Canada:
Ontario on the Fly
We always thought Montana was a big state to cross. It takes a three hard days of driving to do it. We just finished six hard days of driving to cross Ontario Canada and we have another day to go. Our average drive has been 240 miles. Yes, I know, I have said that we didn’t want to go that fast. We would only go a couple hundred miles and then rest a day and see the sights, Well I guess after you have seen about 500 beautiful sky blue lakes and been bit by 400,000 mosquitoes you start to feel like “been there, done that.” Continue reading Ontario on the Fly
Winning in Winnipeg:
Such a beautiful day, such friendly people, just a few less mosquitoes and life would be perfect here. The Sinners and the Dinsmores are camped in Birds Hill Provincial Park just outside Winnipeg Manitoba. The camp hosts came over and greeted us. We were showered with Winnipeg pins and Canada Maple Leaf pins and flag pins. They had brochures for every attraction we might be interested in. We drove down town to “The Forks.” This is the confluence of the Assiniboine river and the Red River, and it is right down town. It is a combination shopping experience and park. Continue reading Winning in Winnipeg:
Rebuilding the Bicycle:
This story starts with a cruise around Medicine Hat, Alberta. We pulled into town in the rain. We stopped at the Tourist Centre and picked up lots of stuff for Saskatchewan and Manitoba. We topped off the fuel and propane tanks and settled into Gas City Campground. Continue reading Rebuilding the Bicycle: