On the road to new adventures

On the road to new adventures!

Tuesday August 16 2016

We drove about 300 miles today from Marco Polo Land Campground in Cavendish on Prince Edward Island to Campbellton in New Brunswick. We can throw a rock into the Provence of Quebec, which is just across the Ristigouche River.

Provence of Quebec in the background

We missed two turns on our way across the island, once I corrected by turning around and once I just rerouted on a different road to the same end. Actually it was a very appropriate start to our new adventure, we're on our own again and finding our way along the highways and byways of Canada.

Confederation Bridge from Prince Edward Island to New Brunswick

We topped off the fuel tank before leaving PEI, the route we were taking north through New Brunswick looks like the road less traveled on the map, the Trans Canada highway is on the other side of the Provence along the Maine border. Much to my surprise the two lane road was pretty busy, probably one of the most heavily traveled roads we've encountered here in Canada.

Hwy 17 up the east side of New Brunswick

We stopped for lunch in the town of Miramichi, We purchased our meal at a Sobey's grocery store and ate it in the motorhome in the parking lot.

Open all year this is a ski area in winter

End of our travel day found us on the north end of New Brunswick Provence. We had a choice of Sugarloaf Provincial Park and a Walmart parking lot. I had no reservation and decided if the park had a site with electric we would stay there, if they only had no service sites or no vacancy at all, we would boondock in the Walmart parking lot. They had a nice pull through electric site for $31 so we are overnighting in the park.

We only receive one TV station here, and it's a French language one at that.

Second day in a row with no WiFi. Will try to get blog postings online tomorrow afternoon.