Happy Birthday, Denise. Can you believe we have a daughter who is -- years old. Aunt Linda remembered she was about 17 and sleeping in on her last day before school started and I called to tell her and Mom that we were going to the hospital and they needed to come and take care of Denise's two older brothers. Linda remembers how she taught it was terrible that she had to babysit on her last day off.
Today when we left Bangor, Maine it was 70 degrees at 7 am and by 9:30 it was76 degrees. When the sun came out it was very warm very quick. I noted that the Trees were starting to look golden in the sunshine and the golden rod was very yellow with an occasional tree with red leaves.
We traveled on route 9 and it was quite hilly with forests as far as we could see. We bought diesel fuel near Calius, Maine, at $2.99 . This was near the Canadian border so we saw many Canadians fueling up. I also noted we had not seen very many flowers around the houses while we have been in Maine. It seems they only us an occasional shrub at their foundations and no flower beds. This seemed odd to me since we come from an area where landscaping with scrubs and flowers is quite popular, Maybe it is this way because the German's have a history of using flowers for decoration.
After we left customs we had to get accustomed to the road signs for legal speed limits. 70 means 42 MPH --80 means 50 MPH and 100 means 63MPH. We traveled on the Bay of Fundy Drive for a period of time which took us close to the Bay. The sights were breath taking at times. even thou the tide was very low.
St. Johns --Unbelievable---That is what a sign said when we arrived on the west side of St. John, N.B. .
St. Johns is a fairly large town with a lot of traffic which moves very rapidly. We found our campsite after driving with our 36ft home on narrow city streets and around sharp curves. The girl at the info center as we entered St. Johns cautioned us about taking the exit which our GPS recommended. She said and earlier exit was much better. Well if it was better I would hate to see what was worse. We are in a provincial park and park out in the open with no one near to us.
After setting up and eating lunch we got in the truck and went to the area of the Reversible Falls. We had seen this area in 1990 and remembered it when we arrived. There were two restaurants nearby which were not there in 1990. After spending some time watching the high tide arrive we decided to take a drive to St. Martins, which is east of Saint Johns. We did not think of rush hour but definitely remembered the time because the interstate was crowded. (At about 8:30 pm we realized we were in Atlantic time zone so we were later than we thought it was when we started our drive to St. Martins).
We found St. Martins to be a little bump in the road but drove east of town and found the most beautiful area along the Bay of Fundy. It had huge rocks which had caves in them at the shore line. You could enter the caves at low tide only. They had a restaurant up by the road which advertised that it had World Famous Clam Chowder. Walt wanted to give it a try, so we went in and found a bowl of Chowder was $10.99. I really did not need a bowlful so he ordered one for himself with another spoon for me. I must say it was good but very high in calories with cream and butter binding the crab meat together. It was delicious--each spoonful had a spoonful of clam meat in it. Two tablespoons of the chowder was enough for me and the rest was Walt's supper. After leaving the shore we went back thru town and headed west. On Lighthouse road we drove to the very end and found the Quaco Had Lighthouse and Quaco Head Reef and "Dulse Rock". I have great pictures of the sight.
After leaving the Lighthouse we headed west on the Fundy Bay drive and ended up in St. Johns just as the sun was setting. The end to a very long and enjoyable day.
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