Monday, August 29, 2005

Day 63 – Distance: 112.01
Notre-Dame-du-Lac, QC to Grand Falls, NB

Yep, I made it through another province – and St. James and the Cellar Singers will be a bit richer for it (Pat Hehn is sponsoring me by the province – is anyone else?). I’m sitting in the camper, appreciating it all the more because it’s raining out, and I can be inside sipping a glass of wine while I’m typing. Life is good indeed (except for these mosquitoes which found their way in before I shut the door). Cam has just gone out to pick up a few groceries, but I was just as happy staying in. My cell service is not working again (Rogers – you stink), but fortunately Cam’s phone (actually Patti and Peter’s phone; they loaned it to Cam for the trip) is with Bell, so it works.

I left Notre-Dame-du-Lac this morning around 8:00 a.m., but Cam reminded me that it was really 9:00 by New Brunswick time. We had set a fairly short day, keeping in mind the time change, and the fact that I was still a bit tired from pushing it yesterday. I stuck to the trail until St. Joseph de Madawaska, where I saw a sign on the road next to me saying it was Hwy 144 east. Since that was the highway I was going to be looking for in Edmunsten, it made a lot of sense to me to take it right away. After all, the trail was meant to be a tool, not a sentence! And as a reward for making that decision, I found a Tim Hortons right away. Hwy 144 was good; shoulders most of the way, and light traffic. The wind was a bit of a problem, but again, since I wasn’t planning to go too far, I didn’t worry. Tomorrow I’m hoping to get to Woodstock – someone should write a song…