Gorges, Covered Bridge and Magnetic Hills..all in one day!

Wednesday will be our 4th week on the road.  I cannot believe how the time is flying past so quickly.  Since we left Ontario, I am feeling very far from home.  I think that while in Ontario we spent so much time with family and friends, that it did not really seem that we were away.  Now we are well into New Brunswick and soon to be in Prince Edward Island, I am feeling a bit,,,,,far away,,,,,, even,,,, homesick??  We are truly having the time of our life and would not change a day of our travels.  We are doing what we want, pretty much.  As we were going through Quebec and nearing Quebec City, I said to Ray,,,, "you know, if we were not pulling this trailer,,, I really would love to go into QC and see all the beautiful old buildings".   You know what my wonderful husband said to me?  "Well once you have seen one """f'''ing""" old buildings, you have seen them all"!!.  I kid you not,,,, he really said that!  Do all men think like this?  What about the romance of those old buildings?  I mean,,,,,,,,,,,sheesh!  I see a girls weekend away in my future to beautiful old Quebec City! Can I blame his attitude on lack of sleep because of the horrendous night we had last night.  Or maybe it had a big belly ache from all that fat in the poutine??


Last night we spent the night  in a place called Riviere Verte in a quaint little "quiet" RV park.  The campsite also had these beautiful little cottages that you could rent.  They were so colourful and apparently they are heated for the winter as people like to camp there and go snow mobiling.  This picture does not do them justice!

We met a very nice couple, Denise and Rene who are seasoned RVers.  They are from Edmunston, but sold their house and bought a beautiful Dutch Star.  They stay in Canada in the summer months and in the winter live in Florida.  It rained so hard last night that it sounded like hail hitting the roof, but by the time we got up in the morning the rain had quit.  I can't say how lucky we have been with the great weather that we have been having!  We had an excellent sleep last night and were on the road by about 1000 hrs.

We went into Grand Falls to see the waterfalls and gorge.  It kind of reminded me a bit of Kakabecka Falls in Ontario, only the falls were much smaller.  One of the young ladies running the information booth said that the water is quite low and as it had rained so much the night before, the water was quite muddy.  We saw nothing wrong with it, looked like the colour of the Fraser River to us!   The rocks in the gorge looked like shale.

After leaving Grand Falls and on the advice of the young ladies in the info booth, we took a more scenic route rather than the main highway.  Taking highway 130 down to Hartland, which is home to the worlds largest covered bridge.  This bridge is 1282 feet long and was built in 1901.  Apparently because he had to respond to some sort of an emergency situation, a  Dr. Estey was the first person to cross the bridge before its grand opening.  Anyway, we walked through from one side to the other and then back again.  Then after being given the okay to drive through it (because of the trailer), we drove through as well.

 

 

Ray walking through one end....

New Brunswich is quite hilly, some would call it mountainous.  Coming from BC these mountains are really just rolling hills, but still beautiful!  We came across a small town called Florenceville, which is the French Fry capital of the world.  I would have thought that with the curds and gravy, that title would belong somewhere in Quebec.  We saw fields of potato's everywhere and this small town has a Potato Museum, which was closed because today is Sunday.  What could possibly be in a Potato museum,,,, Mr Potato Head?  The town's employer is McCain's and there are two huge factories for McCains and also a McCains "Fertilizer" building.  Mmmmm what goes into those frozen french fries?

We are in Moncton for the night in a nice Good Sam campground.  Among many things Moncton is famous for its "Magnetic Hill".  After setting up camp we took a drive to this Magnetic Hill, which also sports a zoo, water slides and a family restaurant.    We dutifully paid our five bucks to be allowed to go on the hill, and following the instructions went to the white post, put our truck in neutral.  We were to watch as your vehicle is pulled backwards up the hill.  The "hill" is actually a slight incline and our truck did pull itself up the hill,,,,, but really?  We did take a drive around the city to check things out.  the coolest building we saw was the Moncton high school.  The building is so old, it looks like an armoury.  Kind of like the armoury in Victoria.  It was beautiful!

Tomorrow we are going to the Bay of Fundy to check out Hopewell Rock at Cape Hopewell.  If we time it right we can watch on the beach.  What I would really like is to watch the tide come roaring in!  After that we will head to PEI.....

Until next time,,,,, here's looking at ya!