Severance Travels: Quebec, Canada

On Monday, 7/31, we left Bar Harbor and made our way over to northwest Maine to go into Canada (Quebec Province). A lot of beautiful scenery up here.

Appalachian Mountains in the background.

Found a little waterfall along the way.

We did run into some road construction along the way. We've found a lot of that this trip.
We stopped in Jackman, ME which is about 15 miles from the border for some diesel. Judy took a picture of their train station.

We got to the border crossing and had the Canadian border patrol ask us several questions: Where are we from, where are we going, any guns, rifles, shotguns, ammo, bear spray, etc. on board. I guess we didn't look too suspicious because he told us to have a nice trip!

Our truck GPS took us somewhat out of the way because we seemed to go thru one town after another, and, we passed signs that indicated a freeway that we should probably be on to get to Quebec City. Anyway, we did see this church along the way.

We did finally arrive in the Quebec City area.

And we followed GPS to our campground: Camp Transit. Rather unusual name but very nice CG.

We talked with the campground hosts and they mentioned one of many tours that you can take in and around the city. We decided on a double-decker bus tour that takes you all around the city with numerous stops and historic places. The CG provides a shuttle that takes you to the ferry at 9 AM and will pick up you up again at 5 PM.

(I exchanged some US currency for Canadian - $40 US equates to $50 Canadian. Exchange rate is $1.25 Canadian for $1 US).

So on Tuesday we got on the ferry ($3 each way for Seniors). This is the Flag of Quebec on the ferry.

First view across the river (St. Lawrence River). Magnificient hotel - you can a room there on Trivago for $449 a night.
That ferry is the sister ship to the one we took. It takes about 12 minutes to cross, and, they run about every 30 minutes.

Closeup view. There is a commons area just below the hotel where tourists congregate and can take tours from here, or just walk up and down the streets.

We actually caught our bus right outside the ferry terminal and sat up on top.

From our vantage point, we could see this cog railway that takes you up to the commons area. We decided that we would take it tomorrow.

It was a nice morning and the breeze felt good. These are pictures Judy took while on the bus. No explanation needed.

Hotel in the background with a revolving restaurant on top (similar to Reunion Tower in Dallas).

St. Lawrence River with a ship heading toward the Great Lakes.

Quebec has the second largest oil refineries in Canada.

Interesting street lights on this street.

After the tour around the city, we got off the bus and planned to go back on later to get off at some of the places that we wanted to tour.
We walked around some and found a neat restaurant for lunch. This was one of their specials - basically french fries with cheese curds covered in a gravy. Very popular in Canada. We did not have it but did have it last year at the Minnesota State Fair.

After lunch we got back on the bus, but, by then, it was too hot to sit on the second deck so we sat inside. Not as scenic. We also realized that we would not be able to get off the bus and sightsee and then be able to get back to the ferry in time to cross over and catch our shuttle. So we just rode around again.

We got off the bus at the commons area and then made our way down "MANY" steps to get to the ferry level. Along the way we spotted this, and, of course, had to buy some caramel corn. Delicious.