Tuesday, 5th Day on the Road: At Home!!!
Tuesday is our fifth consecutive driving day. But we need to add packing day and Dad’s traveling day to Seattle on top of that… We are happy to be in Canada, but we are tired!
We slept in London, Ontario this past night. I have been to London quite a few times in the past 15 years. My first plane ride ever when I was a kid was to London, Ontario. I always liked this city. I knew some hotels so we weren’t lost.
We got up at our usual 8-8:30am time and left London at around 9:40am. We took the 401 highway through Toronto that drives us into the Province of Quebec, then on highway 20 all the way to Quebec City, stopping in Charny, where my parents live, right before the bridge to QC.
We were really hoping to reach Quebec City that day, but it was a long drive and weather forecast wasn’t very positive. 600 miles in one day, in hard weather conditions, isn’t easy.
London was freezing cold. It was probably the coldest morning on our trip. To top that, wind was really strong and pushing us aside on the highway… So we couldn’t drive very fast.
We passed Toronto around noon and were heading toward Kingston and Cornwall when we started getting rain and melting snow, with strong winds and more. This is what we were hoping not to get!
It delayed us to reach Montreal right at traffic hour… And Montreal’s traffic sucks. It’s worse than Seattle I think. There is one road. The weather was awful. People were driving crazy… It took us at least 1 hour of extra time being stuck in traffic in Montreal… Which was in fact something like a 5-7 mile traffic jam. We were going nuts!
But it was still 7pm. We could make it to Quebec City that night. We kept pushing. We stopped halfway between Montreal and QC to my favorite chicken restaurant, St-Hubert. The funny story is that I hadn’t had St-Hubert chicken in 2 years. I was craving it. I told that the day we left Seattle that no matter what, when we got to QC, we had to stop there for lunch or dinner, depending at what time we would be there. I was glad it was dinner.
I ended up eating way too much. Made me feel tired on the road after! We had only 1.5 hours to go, but I was sooooo tired! But we made it home at 11pm at night. We were happy.
Our fifth day performance was: 598 miles (963km) over 12 hours of driving, in a long 13.5 hour day on the road.
Some pictures to come, more crazy Turcotte videos, and more details about the trip itself and what I learned from it!
Dakx
