July 3, 2017 - Today features the longest single day's worth of driving on this entire journey. Starting in the beautiful capital city of Québec - also called Québec (City), I head eastward along the world-famous Trans-Canada Highway to the city of Moncton, in the southeast corner of New Brunswick.
It turned out to be a very scenic drive! For the first few hours as I drive through the Québec countryside, I'm never more than 5 kilometres away from the ever-widening Saint Lawrence River. Turning inland at Riviére-du-Loup, I cross the northern reaches of the Appalachian Mountains and enter my seventh Canadian province, New Brunswick.
The majority of the rest of the journey features the Trans-Canada Highway hugging the banks of the Saint John River, which was the most scenic segment of the drive. Towns are numerous but larger cities are few and far between.
Along the way I made sure to have a few quick stops: Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha!, Québec, lunch in Saint Leonard (near the Maine/American border), checking out the longest covered bridge in the world in Hartland, New Brunswick, a quick tour of the capital city of Fredericton, and getting lost in a few suburbs along the way, en route to my final destination of Moncton.
It was a gorgeous day for a gorgeous drive!
As you can see on the map, the drive was very much a zig-zag between Québec City and Moncton - the U.S. state of Maine really gets in the way...but that doesn't excuse New Brunswick from ignoring the Pythagorean theorem when constructing the Trans-Canada Highway.
Sure, most of the population lives along the banks of the Saint John River, but A-squared plus B-squared equals C-squared. Today was a LONG day...I could've gone for some of that C-squared action.
The journey continues tomorrow in Moncton!
Music credits:
"Ranz des Vaches", "Winner Winner", and "River Valley Breakdown" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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"Cryin In My Beer", "Leavin the Lights", "Opus One", "Tattoo", "Tennessee Hayride", and "2 Above Zero" by Audionautix
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"Epic Chase Music" by Ross Budgen - [ Ссылка ]
"Our French Café" by Jimmy Fontanez/Media Right Productions
