New Brunswick

    What a drive!!! After 10 or more hours we finally made it from Quebec City to St. John, New Brunswick. The drive consisted of forest, trees and a few towns...nothing too much to write home about. We did however stop in Woodstock for lunch at a Vietnamese/Chinese/Western combo restaurant. It was a 'unique' tasting meal...and the meat items (if you could call it that) were to be desired and as for the texture...I don't need to say more! I hate to say anything negative about meals I eat, but this was just so awful I had to mention it. We all limped out to the van after feeling like we had just ingested poison. We hit the next gas station and I bought some more 'lunch'...chips and yogurt (I had only eaten a bite of each item at the restaurant).
    On route to St. John we stopped in Heartland to drive over the 'World's Longest Covered Bridge', which was awesome. The best part was to see how excited my fiance was peering out the window at the bridge! (He has a passion for large bridges). It was built in 1901 and definitely feels like an old bridge driving over it. The town of Heartland was cute as well but since we were on a mission to get the reversing falls we did a drive through.

   Sadly, we made it into St. John a little too late that afternoon and the reversing falls we had driven to see were pretty much over. We could not of gotten there much faster as we had already left the hostel at 5:30am and drove with very few stops. It was almost at slack tide when we arrived so the effect of the tides pushing the water through the narrows was over. There was still a little activity and I could see that in the proper tide, it could be exciting to watch.

   That is alright though, because we had been having a pretty smooth trip so far and luckily being able to get to all the other destinations, so you have to expect there to be some little bumps along the way. We did a small tour through the town of St. John, and I would recommend doing as we did and camp up the coast as Saint John does not have too many sights to see. With towns such as these, it is great to see them and know what they look like, but i don't think an entire day is needed to explore.
we stayed at a locally run campground called Seaside Tent and Trailer Park. The owners were super nice and we were assigned a little site up in the corner of the campground that consisted of grass and a metal tire ring....very minimal. We noticed that the majority of the campground was trailers permanently settled in with welcome mats, built on patios and moss covered tires. This was an odd campground...like out of a Steven King novel. As we walked around the path we noticed Halloween decorations on many of the trailers! We were so confused at this point, did they forget to take them down? It gets even creepier! We walk a few steps further down towards the water and right on the campground there is a cemetery! We ran into the owner a little later and asked him jokingly, "Is it Halloween today?" He looked at us straight faced and told us, "It's tomorrow...we love the dead here." and walked away! What do you say to that?

    Very curious, confused and slightly spooked we made our way down to the Bay of Fundy and had the exciting moment we had been waiting for! We dipped our hand in the Atlantic Ocean, we had made it ocean to ocean! We had a wonderful evening munching on veggies and dip and enjoyed the beautiful view the creepy campground offered. The sky was so beautiful that evening as if mother nature was rewarding us for making it. As odd as the campground was, the views were unbeatable.

    We woke up safe and sound the next morning, Halloween morning (???) and hit the road again en route to Prince Edward Island. We stopped in Moncton, NB to do some much needed laundry at a Laundromat we seen on the side of the road. Unfortunately it was a dry cleaners, but the friendly women behind the counter gave me directions to the Laundromat, "When you get to the strippers hang a left, you can't miss the strippers!" I laughed at the directions to myself, but yes indeed it was beside the strippers. It was called 'Buanderie Dieppe' and was the complete opposite of the last Laundromat we had been to. The spunky women behind the counter was super helpful, the prices were good and she showed us her guest book. People had come in from all over the world...Egypt, Australia, South America and now Vancouver. She even had the Harlem Globe Trotters in doing laundry and they signed her book. It was so fun to sit and listen to this elderly women tell us about her memories in the Laundromat.

    Although we were only New Brunswick for a short time, we enjoyed our time and perhaps will one day return for the right tide at the reversing falls. As odd as the Halloween campground was, it's always fun when your accommodations have character. I can't say I will be eating Vietnamese/Chinese/Western combo food anytime soon but that's alright, Lobster is on the way!