Thursday, August 14, 2008

Day 54 — Tuesday, August 12

Grand Falls to Hawkshaw
I woke up at about 8 a.m., which was 5 a.m. in Alberta because we had passed into the Atlantic Time Zone yesterday. The Québec-New Brunswick border is where we lost an hour.

We got up and checked out the grand falls in Grand Falls. They were pretty decent. Apparently, nearly the same amount of water cascades over them that go over Niagara Falls. So it’s a pretty big deal. We watched the falls for a few minutes but started experiencing diminishing returns so we took off.

I spent a good portion of the morning on the phone with the ferry people. I took a break to give Vanessa a call on our banana phones, which come to think of it, would've probably got more reception in northern Ontario than our cell phones a few weeks ago.

A rather uneventful day. The roads are nearly perfect. They rival Alberta’s for the best we’ve seen so far this trip. We pulled into a campground off the TransCanada Highway (the #2 in New Brunswick) at about dusk and after having some rice and doing some laundry we hit the hay.

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