Wayward Newlyweds – Day 25: Stone Mills

Home Stretch

We had a nice wake up to a hotel breakfast of bacon, waffles, eggs and coffee again. We lounged about in the room until check out at 11:00am and then hit the road again.

Today, we had to drive through Quebec again. It wasn’t really too bad, but it was bad enough to make us complain. We had a pretty straight forward drive. We were headed to Trois-Revivers again to stay in the same spot we were the last time. However, about an hour away Dodd brought up the idea of just driving straight through to Tamworth and getting to the cabin tonight. I said I was ok to drive for a bit if that was what he wanted to do, but I did request a proper meal. We ended up getting some fish and chips in…some where… We discovered then that fish and chips, particularly when your chips are poutine style chips, are not car food. We managed surprisingly well considering, and had minimal spillage.

We made it through Quebec City with a bit of traffic as we were there around rush hour. We headed right on through Trois-Revivers and towards Montreal. We hit a few navigational snags in Montreal, mostly because of traffic once again. We had to do a section twice because we missed the exit we wanted. If you have ever heard someone talk about Seattle or other US cities and concrete spaghetti, tell them Montreal is 10x worse because the spaghetti isn’t layered like it is in Seattle, it’s just new roads that randomly sprout out of the one you’re on in 4 different directions…argh!

We made it through eventually and were pointed toward the Ontario border. We were going a bit of a different way than our first time through this area as we were not headed for Northern Ontario this time, but rather through Kingston and Nappanee. This meant…driving on the dreaded 401 highway… In all honesty it was no worse than the highways in Quebec, in fact it was a bit better because it was better maintained! Anyway, we got to Nappanee relatively easily. Then Dodd took over and got us home to the cabin by about 10:00pm. It was so nice to be somewhere familiar that felt like a home. We just pulled in essentials for the evening and morning and fell into bed.

So, for all intents and purposes this marks the end of the Wayward Newlywed journey. We still have about a month of ‘vacation’ for me and two months of bee work for Dodd. I am still going back and forth about whether I will continue to blog our adventures in the bees. My guess is there will be some days when nothing exciting happens at all for me, as I will mostly be hanging out in the cabin trying to get some writing done (other than blog writing lol). I may add a post here or there, but the ‘daily updates’ I think from this point will stop.

Thank you to everyone who have gone on this journey with us via the interwebs. We both look forward to sharing more pictures and stories with you when we are back in Vancouver.

Much love, and as always

Cheers

Sláinte

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