The anticipated departure from Quebec City was easy...we knew there would be some directional challenges but we were more concerned by traffic. Church bells tolled as we left, which offered some good news with respect to traffic movement in a city where Sunday morning gatherings are highly regarded.
We made our way through the tangled city routes to find ourselves on beautiful country roads winding their way south. Even in the countryside of Quebec, large churches can be found in communities that do not appear to have enough people to support them. Each one of them is well kept, architecturally beautiful beacons to those who live in the communities and others who are drawn to them.
The day ride was going so well, we figured we might make Plattsburgh early enough as a launch off for the next leg of our trip. We were going to be crossing into the States at one of several small crossings. Four bikes, six people...generally not an issue. In truth it really wasn’t for 5 of us. I know, hard to guess who that “person” was right?.....not for anyone who knows Larry’s history, or in this case “luck” when it comes to entering into the US (again....queue Mary Anns’ gasp and my mothers chuckle - see previous blog for Arizona trip). Larry, as it appears, is randomly selected for a search similar to what they would do at the airport. As Larry goes in for the oral and written exam, I am left to provide access to his motorcycle to the rather nice looking young agent. I am guessing I got the better end of that deal. All in all, it took about 30 minutes and we were under way again.
We stop on the other side in Richford, make reservations at a location in Burlington for the night, as it seems we will not make Plattsburgh. Now, we figured that finding this spot in a little place like Burlington would be easy.....in fact there was more twists and turns to getting there then there was getting out of Quebec. Thanks to Con and his GPS app we navigated right to the door. This spot only cost us $69 a night. Clean, comfortable, right next to a fabulous restaurant where we had the most delicious meal....unfortunately the mosquitos also enjoyed the most delicious meal on Larry, Con and Thy....but that’s another story.
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