Back in Quebec City

 We slept pretty good last night and awoke to a very nice hotel supplied breakfast (waffles!).

On the road at about 8:30 AM we gassed up and headed cross country through the middle of the province on a secondary highway, heading to Grand Falls New Brunswick.

The first thing we noticed was that the highway was TERRIBLE. Many patches upon patches, gravel shoulders, occasional VERY rough areas with some holes, and an 80 k speed limit (for good reason).

There was virtually no traffic for a good part of the three hours drive, and during this the fun started!

First I hit a little sparrow sized bird (presently in bits and pieces in front of the radiator). Then a while later, probably half way through the highway drive, in an area that is just trees, the “low tire pressure” alarm went off. HOLY SH-T! We were huge distances from anywhere and there was NOBODY on the highway with us at all! I immediately sped up to try and get to a town about an hour away. The car was not pulling in any specific direction and I figured I had time to get there if it was a slow leak. Caro couldn’t find any information in the manual if there was tire pressure indications on the dash board so I kept going hard, as fast as the road allowed. We finally rolled into Plaster Rock (a town of about 1200 people). I asked for directions to a tire repair shop. WHEW, we made it. The man there came out with his tire gauge and we checked the tires to see which one needed repair and found NOTHING wrong with any of them! The SENSOR is the problem @!zx@! UPSET and then HAPPY were our strong emotions!. The low pressure alarm keeps coming on but we know there is no problem.

Grand Falls was a beautiful spot. The falls are spectacular and as we learned, in the spring when the runoff occurs these falls are the second biggest (volume wise) in Canada (90% of the volume of Niagara Falls-which is the number one in volume)

After viewing the falls and reading up on history of the area we headed up the road to Edmunston. Beautiful country in that part of the province. The temperature was very warm (finally!) and we stopped at a Burger King and ate outside ( mid 20’s).

Soon we were back in Quebec on our way back to Quebec City . We pulled off the main highway and drove a few kilometres down to a small picnic area beside the St. Lawrence as I needed a break (600 km driving today).

Getting back the city was bad because of construction in many areas however we got to our hotel about 4:30. We picked this hotel because it has a pool/hot tub and restaurant and it has not disappointed us at all!

After a great supper in the hotel restaurant we walked down the street to a very popular poutine, hot dog, ice cream trailer (doing great business!). With double scooped ice cream cones (actually way too much) we walked some of the area. It seems to be a neighbourhood in transition. There are some very nice places with real character and then houses all boarded up. We did see a ground hog living beside an abandoned place, so that was neat.

Tomorrow should be an easy day as we are spending it here in this city.