Some more photos of our day in Quebec from Pat Buckley and Andy Leo that I want to share with you.
Typical of the stone architecture found in the old city. I don't know what building this is, but it is so much alike others you see all around this fascinating town.
Reg, Andy and Bruce tackled a small maintenance issue with Judy and Pat Buckley's car. Adding a switch to turn on the radiator fan. These guys do good work.
Our lunch on the outside patio of a small restaurant in Old Quebec and a rain shower at the same time. We coped, and Bruce and Dolores Reynolds ate under an umbrella, while the rest of us were shielded from the rain.
T-shirts in the store fronts... this one particularly cute.
At sunset the cars were iridescent in the parking lot lamp light.
The Church of the Holy Trinity, in front of which we parked... just across the street from the Hotel Clarendon.
This is inside Notre Dame Basilica.
This morning we gathered in front of the hotel for a photo of some of the crawlers. Dolores, Charlie, Andy, Anne, Judy, Bruce, Pat, Sally and Reg.
Off we went to the pastry shop for a "nutritious" breakfast. Chocolate Croissant anyone?
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Even Flat Bill and Flat Ellen participated in breakfast.
Driving out of town we went past the Armory again. The roof was destroyed by fire some years ago and hasn't been replaced yet, but it remains an architecturally interesting building reminiscent of the military history of the city.
Once out of the city we drove through some rolling hills of Canada.
A couple of hours later we went through customs and the border crossing eagle eye of the US Customs officer. When they saw six of our little cars arriving they opened a new lane and invited us all to go through it.
Another hundred miles, more or less, of very rough northern Maine roads we happily arrived at Chalet Moosehead Lakefront. Golly the roads were rough, and our Morgan's are known as rough riders. We proved it today.
There was a light rain and wet roads much of the way, and our cars were the dirtiest they've been so far on the trip. The lodge kindly provided a hose and some of us set about cleaning the mud off.
Some, as did Andy Leo here, even got into some detailing of his impressive rig.
The lodge is in a beautiful setting on Moosehead Lake, Maine's largest inland lake.
Across from the lodge is Kelly's Landing, a surprisingly good restaurant where we had lunch and dinner... and will probably go there for breakfast tomorrow.
The lodge ducks were unafraid of the guests and cute to watch.
Jim Clark and wife Colette rejoined the crawl after skipping away for a few days to help their grandson celebrate his birthday.
After car cleaning, many gathered in the Adirondack chairs and enjoyed the view of the lake.
Even Bob and Pat expressed their, err, macho.
We descended on Kelly's landing, all 21 of us and they handled us with aplomb.
Even flat Bill and Ellen partied with us.
Most had walked to the restaurant, and during dinner the skies opened up with a persistent rain shower. Improvisation was required to get home dry.
Despite the rough roads and long drive, this was a lovely retreat and change of pace from the urban adventure of Quebec.
Tomorrow, Bar Harbor Maine and vacation land once again.
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