Road Trip

Ok, so the first thing everyone will wonder is where is the French travelogue this year. Well, we already decided after last year's trip that France would not be on the itinerary for this year. Now, with all the labour strife in France due to upcoming unfavourable labour legislation, strikes are the order of the day and our decision to skip France looks like genius. Our French immersion this year will be limited to a road trip through southern Quebec. I am not by any means putting down Quebec. We are very excited about visiting the Saguenay area at Tadoussac and return to Quebec City and Montreal after many years of absence. Then we move further down the road to visit three sets of old friends. We started off at 9:17 this morning and with only a very minimal slowdown around southern Montreal and three stops along the way to stretch, we rolled into our hotel in Drummonville shortly after 6:00 and a visit to the SAQ store = LCBO - 774 km later. We chose the Hotel-Motel Drummond, immediately off the highway and quickly swapped a ground floor room for a second storey one. Ground floor was super musty, so I quickly downed an antihistamine with a nice California chardonnay. La vie est belle! Now we got an upgrade to a king size on the not-smelly second floor. Tomorrow, Tadoussac and maybe a whale or two.