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At Large In Quebec

August 1, 2008 by Gail

I’m writing this in recovery mode from the wonderful dinner you see here (and more, consumed but unpictured), prepared for me by my host in Quebec City. It is my first visit here and I rolled up at dinnertime from a long drive that started in Toronto this morning. Look what I was greeted with!

spoiled in Quebec City (vegetarians, look away!)

I had two passengers with me from Toronto to Montreal, people who each responded to my ad in Craigslist for a shared ride east. There was another person who was a tentative but didn’t come because he SLEPT IN* and I said we weren’t going to wait for him. But the three of us who did travel had a quick five-hour drive to Montreal thanks to music and plenty of easyflowing conversation. I dropped them off downtown and found my way to the Pont Jacques-Cartier to continue to Quebec City.

Pont Jacques-Cartier

Strangely, THIS bridge photo was the only one of the batch I uploaded from my cameraphone via email that was posted to Flickr. I have several others, but I’m not reposting them now in case they’re all delayed in a data bottleneck and get released in the middle of the night, making me eat my words… really, I can’t eat my words, in fact, I can’t eat anything else — did you see my dinner plate? I’m going to crash and burn now, because Georges warned me it is going to be A VERY EARLY MORNING. We’re heading up north!

* There’s more to this story, it’s funnier in person. Remind me to tell you later! 

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3 Comments »

  1. Anf says:

    LOL glad you made it there OK! Wow, what a treat from your host!! I *knew* I should have joined you :P

  2. Monica says:

    What a long drive! One shot, holy!

  3. Gail says:

    One shot, indeed, and you won’t believe this part: I slept one hour on Thursday night/Friday morning (7am-8am). I can’t believe it, myself, because I felt fine on that 800km+/500mi+ drive.

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