We woke with the sun 5 am., and headed out by 7am. hoping to find a Cracker Barrel restaurant for breakfast! Unfortunately it seems that Maine only has 1 and we passed it heading out thinking surely there will be another - nope! The best we could find was Burger King - never again!
We are really pushing so that we can spend some extra time in Nova Scotia. Beautiful drive, lots of trees and lots of really steep hills. Our Forester is a real trooper pulling the trailer mostly with little extra effort, but on some of those hills (Appalatian mountains really) we were almost singing that kids nursery rhyme about the little engine that could!
We stopped at a scenic look out, made our own tea and lunch in the trailer and ate looking out at a mountain. We met a biker doing a 3 month tour of the US - he was pulling a little trailer rigged with air conditioning and windows with 2 little dogs in it..... really nice guy, took a great photo of us with one of his little dogs!!
Once we crossed back into Canada, we started looking for a town that might have a grocery store with "real" food. We followed signs DOWN a large hill to a town called Meductic ... sigh........ Turned out to be a collection of 6 houses with a little "Mom and Pop" store which was about the size of our tiny house but served as the local grocery store, gas station, post office, etc. We did manage to come up with enough to make "something", but it was like shopping at a corner store! Nice people though, I think she sold me a pound of hambuger from her own freezer!
We finally made it to Mactaquac Provincial Park about 30 km west of Fredericton, a few hours ago. We managed to cook up a hot meal and got out for a walk before the rain started again. Our site is right beside the lake with a perfect view. Water is almost swimmable for us - Max however had his first swim of the season.
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