Old Iron Inn Bed and Breakfast Caribou

... und die WCs bereits geschlossen: Closed for the Season. Toll!
Da beschlossen wir, in einem Motel zu übernachten. Zuerst kochten und assen wir das Abendessen im Camper auf dem Parkplatz vor unserem Zimmer, danach ging es ab in die Wärme. Ach, war das herrlich! Ein warmes Zimmer, warmes Bett und eine heisse Dusche!!!! Luxus pur!

... wir nach der Besichtigung wieder beim Camper ankamen, steckte auch schon die Visitenkarte von den beiden an der Fensterscheibe mit dem Vermerk 'wenn ihr mal in Kalifornien seit, dann ruft uns an'. Machen wir doch gerne!

Weiter ging es Richtung Fredericton, der Hauptstadt von New Brunswick. Das war wirklich hübsch, der kurze Rundgang hat sich auf jeden Fall gelohnt.

... up to our room on the third storey. We immediately felt welcomed and comfortable in this quaint old home. Our room was the attic suite and turned out to be a lovely refuge, spacious and comfortable with a nice view of the downtown area and with the wide Saint John river in the background. A funky curved staircase led up to our private refuge high up on the third storey, A story in the room told us that the home has been in the same ...

... that they declined the obligatory cavity search (eeeewww). After this little experience, we got to the Four Corner's Park after a quick fill-up on gas and it is wonderful. We spent quite a bit of time there and shot a lot of pictures. The folks of Madawaska are VERY FRIENDLY and love bikers.

We got to the Post Office to send our documents in and met Glenn Bailey there. He is a retired postal worker and offered to shoot our picture. It ...

Day 18: A3 C14 odometer reading 10519 miles Rusty 1200Rt odometer reading 31916 miles The alarm clock went off at 6am, as agreed, but we did not leave till 11:15am. Rusty woke up feeling dizzy and had to go worship the porcelain god a few times. At around 9:30am we went for breakfast, but Rusty could not eat anything, and then we just took a walk around the ...

Grand Falls, NB Traveling the highway between Quebec City and Riviere du Loup was tortuous. It was a horribly dull drive with nothing interesting to look at all. Not until we got closer to the New Brunswick border did the scenery open up. I live in the country just an hour outside of Ottawa and find the city encroaching on me more and more every year. We even are supposedly getting a Wal-Mart next year- the epitome of commercialism taking over small towns. I worry ...

So, last night we started laundry, but gave up after we had 3 loads washed and the dryer was still struggling to dry the first one. First priority today was to find a coin laundry to dry our stuff for a reasonable price! After the girls spent a bit more time playing on the playground at "Camping du Quai" in Riviere du Loup, we went into town and left Dennis in a coin laundry, babysitting the dryers, while the rest of us headed up Rue D ...

... when in Atlantic Canada one must stop at every Tim Hortins you can. Its a rule (evidently). Our second stop was another of Rays brother, who I cant remember the name of at the moment :) they live out in the middle of nowhere which was fantastic, seriously. We then continued on to Grand Falls and ate a resturant called the Hilltop, looking out onto the grand falls. It ...

... Riviere-de-Loup turned out to be a really cool place....a lovely real town...well kept...looked like a place with money but not a tourist or tacky shop in sight! Had a wander...found some camping gas...in a designer camping shop....despite Neil doubting there would be anywhere! Then moved on. More driving....was hoping everything would revertto English across the border....but no way...how wrong could we be ...

I took my second solo U.S roadtrip from June 15 to July 11, 2003 that spanned from Maine down to Washington D.C. View my travel blog for this exciting vacation by clicking here: http://www.travelpod.com/travel-blog/ex ploreamerica/usroadtrip_2003/tpod.html