"On the road again."As the song say's we are moving along. New Brunswick has 88% of its land covered with trees. Boy, are they right. That is all we are seeing today. But, after traveling about 40 miles we were starting to see glimpses of farming communities in the valley to our left. They did things right by putting the road on the uneven high ground and leaving the good valley area for farming. Some of the town names are Belasiene, Norton, Apahaguis. All French names, and as we found later in the day this is a huge French Area. Every sign has French and English on the sign (this has been true since we entered New Brunswick) but it is more prominent of the people in this north western area. We definitely are in farm country when you get a whiff of hay and not pine trees.
The tour guide in Saint Johns was right when he said Tim Horton's (quick food restaurant) is Canada's Embassy and McDonalds is the United States Embassy. We always see one and then the other.
When we went past the Salisbury exit we are seeing larger farms and we even saw cows in the field and milk trucks on the roads. Very bid barns and silos are also visible.
We arrived in Shediak, New Brunswick, at about 1l:30 am and set up with no problem even though this is a large park and being totally full. Thank goodness we had a reservation. The manager of the park met us as we entered the park and escorted us to our site. We did not even have to level our R.V. That is so nice.
After eating a quick lunch we headed to the information center and really had a hard time explaining to the young man at the counter that we wanted to drive through the farm country. He spoke French fluently but had a hard time with English. Apparently he knew English from a book but could not carry on a very good conversation. This is the first person we met who had that problem. Oh, another tidbit==Shediak is the largest lobster capital of the Canada. The town has about 5000 population in the winter and it doubles its population in the summer from June to September. You could almost say there are more RV's in this area than actual houses. They are everywhere.
After the visitors center we started on our afternoon drive. We headed north with the goal to see some of the seashore and find some farms. Well, we saw some seashore and some farms but we also found a mud road. Walt was traveling along on a paved road and then it turned into a gravel road and then into mud. He figured if the road was on the GPS it would be okay. Well, we drove about 5 miles and all we saw was this narrow road with no people, no cars but only trees. Then we came up to a washout on the road. We carefully went with one wheel straddling a dry spot between to wet holes and the other wheel was in the ditch. We got thru and then he decided it was not any good to travel any further when he saw a lot of wood bark and twigs in the roadway. "I believe this is a logging road." What a good observation!! So we turned around and Lizzie (our GPS) says "Travel 5.8 miles to next road". Good she was still with us. After a slow trek to the main road we decided we had explored enough and went on to better things. We found a Natural Soap making business and a winery. One stop for me and a stop for Walt. We returned home about 4 hours later--thank goodness because it was 95 degrees with very high humidity.
We will see what adventures we can have tomorrow.
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