Day 2 Sept. 7, 2005
Awoke early and were on our way by 7:30 am, glad to have Montreal behind us. Beautiful views of the countryside – long, narrow strips of farms running down to the St. Lawrence River. Filled up the gas tank at Berthier-sur-mer PQ and had our first sticker shock experience, more to come - $84!
Stopped for lunch at Notre-Dame-du-Lac, near the NB border, and were treated to a lovely view of Lake Temiscouata.
This was Day 2 of the truck drivers’ protest in New Brunswick. The highway around the border was lined with hundreds of transport trucks. We had learned earlier in the day that they were not preventing car traffic from passing through so stuck to our plan to drive through on the TransCanada. The reports were right. We had to go slow, for safety reasons, but the truckers were polite and didn’t cause us any trouble. We voluntarily signed their petition for lower gas prices and continued on our way. There were a number of clusters of transports all along the TCH from Edmunston to Woodstock. On the bright side, the driving was very easy since there were no transports on the road.
Left the TCH at Pokiok and drove along the north shore of the St. John River toward Hagerman’s Great Bear Campground. It was a great campground, a little out of the way but totally worth it. Mature, well maintained grounds on the banks of the St. John River --- and we were the only ones there!! A sign on the office door invited us to go ahead, choose a site, set up camp and return to register later. No one ever showed up at the office.
Weather was excellent all day and evening too. The sky was clear and full of stars.
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