Trip Report : Quebec and New England
It's March 2012 and Silversand (AKA Derek) and Silverdunes (AKA Nikki) are sharing a beer with me in a heatwave in Bromont, Quebec. It's 24 celcius and I'm starting to doubt Derek's descriptions of ic...
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Tuesday 8th September : Bromont to Freeport
Following breakfast at McDonalds in Bromont we set off for the US border at Stanstead at the top of I91:
There weren't many people crossing that day, and we had to park and go into the office to do the paperwork. The border guys in the office were fine - joking amongst themselves. Though it does seem like a fairly heavy duty border presence unless Canada is actually a very unlikely harbinger of economic migrants, terrorists and drug smugglers. More likely I suspect the US has to harmonize all border controls and doesn't want to be seen to be more favourable to one neighbour than another.
Definitely in the US now:
A bit of old England here - a Norman style church - the style the Norman (French) invaders built in England after 1066:
We passed Crawford Notch and stopped for lunch just down the hill:
Then headed on towards the coast:
We stopped at the Factory outlet for LL Bean, but couldn't find anything we needed. We also looked for a Timex outlet where Derek had found expedition watches at a huge discount in the past. Sadly it had closed down.
Nikki had booked us several nights into Recompense campground just outside Freeport, Maine. I think these were sites 720 and 722. I was really careful about parking this time, trying to get the camper absolutely flat so both the shower and fridge would work:
It was fairly empty, which was great - a real change from the holiday weekend:
These sites don't have hook-up, but they have water a few yards away and there is a shower / toilet block a couple of minutes walk away.
Following breakfast at McDonalds in Bromont we set off for the US border at Stanstead at the top of I91:
There weren't many people crossing that day, and we had to park and go into the office to do the paperwork. The border guys in the office were fine - joking amongst themselves. Though it does seem like a fairly heavy duty border presence unless Canada is actually a very unlikely harbinger of economic migrants, terrorists and drug smugglers. More likely I suspect the US has to harmonize all border controls and doesn't want to be seen to be more favourable to one neighbour than another.
Definitely in the US now:
A bit of old England here - a Norman style church - the style the Norman (French) invaders built in England after 1066:
We passed Crawford Notch and stopped for lunch just down the hill:
Then headed on towards the coast:
We stopped at the Factory outlet for LL Bean, but couldn't find anything we needed. We also looked for a Timex outlet where Derek had found expedition watches at a huge discount in the past. Sadly it had closed down.
Nikki had booked us several nights into Recompense campground just outside Freeport, Maine. I think these were sites 720 and 722. I was really careful about parking this time, trying to get the camper absolutely flat so both the shower and fridge would work:
It was fairly empty, which was great - a real change from the holiday weekend:
These sites don't have hook-up, but they have water a few yards away and there is a shower / toilet block a couple of minutes walk away.
