Hotel and Suites Le Dauphin Drummondville

... into pie-things by various machines and snood-garbed employees. The washrooms, however, were a mess and the cafeteria appeared to be on fire – as far as we could tell through the smoke – so we abandoned our plans for lunch and fled to a Wendy’s an hour or so down the road.

Our little convoy, consisting of a Lexus SUV, a Chevy Malibu and a Honda CRV, droned across the featureless wasteland that is south-eastern Ontario, white ...

... aux 10-15km pendant un 10-15 minutes et je suis top forme pour un autre 10-15km. Ca marche à tout coup!
Aussi je commence à être plus habitué à mon vélo et je suis déjà plus confo qu'hier.

À midi j'étais déjà à Louiseville donc je me suis mis comme objectif de me rendre à Trois-Rivières!
Rendu à Pointe-Du-Lac je suis passé devant l'auberge du Lac Saint-Pierre dont j'avais beaucoup entendu parler quand j'étais petit. Je me suis donc laissé emporter par un élan de folie ...

Salut! Ok, so I didn't write more the other day, but I'm so close to coming home it's almost like why bother... But on Tuesday, we had an afternoon excursion planned, a trip to Riviére de la Batiscan (I think). It was pretty. Again, I have to wait for pics to be developed since my poor poor camera was KIA.

I had intended on just lying on the beach and not doing too much but Amanda and I went to walk down to the shore to take a ...

... We have basically explored centre-ville and the mall very thouroughly, but not much else, which is a little sad. Anyways, I will try to post more, but I kind of feel like its not worth it if I'm not telling an exciting or funny story. So I'm posting some random shots of the last few weeks to keep you all entertained. Bewarned, a few are in the campus pub....

xoxo
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... Last weekend, we explored Trois-Rivieres, this weekend its Quebec, the next weekend it is Parc Nationale de la Mauricie (the national parc here) aand the NEXT weekend is Montreal. They are only day trips, so I'm trying to find a way to get permission (yes we need to get permission to leave town ... wtf?) to stay overnight and come back by myself in Quebec and Montreal, so that I wont ...

... food) we continued our path along New Hampshire and into Vermont. Within 2 hours we hit the US - Canadian border. There were about 10 cars and trucks waiting to pass the customs inspection with the best part being the explosive detector dogs. Given our love for dogs we were looking at one of the labrador retrievers happily doing its work. Obviously the customs agent noticed that we were talking about his canine friend as he ...

... ce sont des barrières qui permettent au cyclistes de courser à l'abri des automobilistes dans un bouquet de rues duquel Beaubien fait partie, et quelques "agents de sécurité" qui, le dernier du moins, finiront par me donner des indications assez précises qui doivent me servir à rejoindre Mathieu, encerclé au centre de cette démonstration sportive de plus en plus frustrante. Je dois revenir vers Saint-Michel, tourner à gauche puis rejoindre la 40 ouest et ...

... street because I wanted to see an Imax, but there was nothing good playing. So I walked around the mall a bit, then finally made my way back to my hotel around 7:30 pm because I could no longer walk... my legs were DEAD!!!! I walked around for at least 6 hours. But I couldn't help it, there was SO much to see here, it was total sensory overload. I will definitely be coming back here, and I also want to go to Quebec city. My taxi ...

... erreur et que tout ira bien. Je voyage de nuit mais je ne ferme pas l'oeil un moment. L'excitation est trop grande. Chaque seconde me rapproche de plus en plus de ce continent innexploré. J'ai hâte, j'ai les papillons dans le ventre. Je prépare en tête tout ce que je dois faire en arrivant. Wow, voila, un an d'attente, j'y suis, par ou je commence?? ....

... out, so I went with them and reminded myself why it's good to travel by yourself - I got to know them all better in one night than I had living there for two weeks while ensconsed in Ian's presence. Will took us to a little diner filled with ceramic pigs, down a side street that I wouldn't have ever ventured down otherwise, where I ate Poutine, french fries with gravy and cheese curd: Quebecois traditional cuisine, for the first time. It was very yummy indeed!