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Road Trip 2017–Memorial Day

With the trip shorted by the broken engine we had to drop the Duluth stage, as I’d mentioned earlier – and also we had to cut out Yellowstone and Grand Teton. But on Memorial Day we made sure that we had a shorter day’s drive so that we could take in Badlands National Park, Mt…
Road Trip 2017–Back in the US

With the car fixed by Friday and sporting a reconditioned engine we were headed back to the US – but with a more demanding schedule as I had to get back to work – and Alice had a flight to catch. We had to cut out a portion of the trip going North of Lakes…
Road Trip 2017–Side trip to Niagara Falls

When Alice agreed to come on the 2nd part of the road trip she asked if Niagara Falls was an option – but as our path should have taken us from Montreal across to Duluth that wasn’t really en-route. But with a couple of days to spare we hired a car and headed to Toronto…
Road Trip 2017 – Quebec City to Montreal

After Quebec City the plan was to drive to Montreal – Diane would then catch a plane back to Seattle, Alice would fly in from the UK and join me for the 2nd part of the road trip – Montreal to Seattle. It didn’t quite work out as planned. Half-way to Montreal the car died. …
Road Trip 2017–Quebec City

One day isn’t enough to see all that Quebec City has to offer obviously – so we aimed to see some local sights in the morning and headed out to Montmorency Falls and then across to the Ile d’Orleans – after of course breakfast at Paillard! The afternoon was back into town and a good…
Road Trip 2017–Really getting to Quebec

The observant amongst you (if anyone is reading this and following the series) will have noticed that the last post didn’t get us to Quebec – but ended in Shediac. That felt like a good place to end the last blog post. Leaving Shediac (which is in New Brunswick) we headed a little way up…