{"id":2910,"date":"2017-10-23T14:35:26","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T18:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helplink.com\/CLAFC\/?p=2910"},"modified":"2017-10-23T15:12:41","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T19:12:41","slug":"becoming-landlubbers-once-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helplink.com\/CLAFC\/?p=2910","title":{"rendered":"Becoming landlubbers once again"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"IMGA0132\"<\/a>\"IMGA0142\"<\/a>We arrived back \u201cin Canada\u201d via the big ferry and began the\u00a0\u00a0journey back to Quebec (City), and then onto Ottawa. The drive was easy, beautiful, and fast \u2014 at least fast compared to\u00a0the last few months.<\/p>\n

Speed of travel is an interesting thing. I\u2019ve heard it said that we\u00a0experience life\u00a0at the speed at which we move. At boat speed, which is usually about 5 knots for us (~10 km\/hr), life is very different than zipping along at 100 km\/hr or more (especially when\u00a0Ann is driving \ud83d\ude09 ). At boat speed I see things, smell things, feel things in a way that I just don\u2019t while driving in a car. In a car it\u2019s all so clinical. I feel cut off \u2026 more isolated.<\/p>\n

But of course, car speed also means we can get to places before the next glaciers appear, which is a good thing. Life is full of trade offs. We all gotta find the right balance…<\/p>\n

\"IMGA0144\"<\/a>\"IMGA0147\"<\/a>In any case, our zippy two-day journey from Corner Brook to Quebec City\u00a0was easy and quite beautiful. We found a couple of cheap, but decent, motels, and we even found Donna and Sam\u2019s old digs in Oromocto. The trees were revealing their true colours, and the journey along Bras d’Or Lake\u00a0 was rather stunning.<\/p>\n

Once we got to Rivi\u00e8re-du-Loup we began retracing our route\u00a0along the St. Lawrence. We saw some of the islands we had anchored beside, and reminicsed about the journey that already seems so long ago.<\/p>\n

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\"IMG_2471\"<\/a>\"IMGA0207\"<\/a>On our way down the river we completely bypassed Quebec City. Ann had never been, so we decided to spend a few days in the old city. Ann\u00a0found us an AirBnB right in the heart of the city. We arrived just as the sun was going down and the drizzle had begun.<\/p>\n

Navigating the old city roads is challenging at the best of times. We did manage to find the place after only missing our turns twice. Gilles, the owner, greeted us and we moved into our room which overlooked some of the oldest homes and streets in Canada.<\/p>\n

The next day we wondered the streets of the old city. We climbed up to the Plains of Abraham<\/em> and saw where the battle over Quebec\u2019s soul began. We meandered through the cobblestone alleys, just taking it all in.<\/p>\n

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\"IMGA0189\"<\/a>After lunch I went back to our room to rest tired ankles and Ann carried on by herself. She hiked down to the marina and discovered numerous art installations.<\/p>\n

\"IMGA0166\"<\/a>She watched a sailboat go through the lock that separates the marina from the St. Lawrence, and she also found the same trimaran that we had met a month (or so) earlier; the one with the young family and\u00a0all the many, many kids.<\/p>\n

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See August post<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"IMG_2524\"<\/a>Later we\u00a0met up for another yummy dinner at one of the nearby restaurants.<\/p>\n

\"IMG_1211\"<\/a>After a couple of days we said goodbye to our host and headed for Ottawa. Approaching Montreal, and getting through this big city’s traffic, is always interesting, but we made it and were greeted by Mom, Kathy, and two cute kitties.\u00a0The accommodations at my sister\u2019s place are not quite 5-star, but at least the company is great.<\/p>\n

\"IMGA0212\"<\/a>The following days, which have bled into weeks, and is now looking like more than month, has been\u00a0a blur of good food, beer and wine, great company, and lots of Connor. It has been great to spend time with\u00a0niece Colleen and her growing son Connor who is doing great. We\u2019ve been going to parks with them, and Ann even visited his \u201cschool\u201d to see how things were going with his program.<\/p>\n

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While in Ottawa Ann has carried on with her Tooth Saga. Seems that despite all the wine drinking, her gum has healed over nicely and the dentist is now ready with power drill and jackhammer so they can pound a new post into her jaw and glue on a new chomper. I keep offering to build her one out of epoxy and fibreglass, but for some reason she wants to go with the \u201cprofessionals.\u201d So we\u2019re hanging around Ottawa for a few more weeks to get it all done.<\/p>\n

This will give us time to visit some of our Belleville friends, and for me to play with my baby sister some more.<\/p>\n

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