Thank you as always, bud! Your comments are very, very much appreciated.

Thanks as always, BBB! While we won't get you to Niagara Falls this season, after next week's Quebec episode it's off to the Maritimes.

Well, my French is pretty atrocious, Gerald, as my Quebecois wife will tell you repeatedly. 🙄Zoe is adjusting well to barely being able to see anymore. Fetching is down to *very* short throws, and occasionally she has trouble with things like finding the gate in the fence, but other than that you'd barely notice.

Keep your eyes open, we very well may cross paths. Safe travels!

Thank you! On the Quebec park thing, we understand that Quebec's culture is very unique in North America, and we are impressed and encourage Quebecois to maintain that. It's part of what makes Quebec so unique and special, and quite honestly part of what endeared me to Mrs GA when we met. But for me personally, the word "nation" = "country", which is why that seems a little strange to me. For Quebec is a province of Canada, not an independent country. I see Quebec as a unique culture, not a unique nation. Hope that makes sense!

That bush sure gave us our privacy, Ram. The exchange rate is helpful to offset the prices on most everything else up here, especially diesel and groceries. Hard to believe things like $9 for a pound of butter, and my truck fill-up this week was my most expensive fuel pump purchase ever at $267. Nevertheless, as you'll see as you catch up on a few more episodes, the experience overall has been excellent and I'm very happy we planned this route.

Thank you! Magog is so beautiful with Mont Orford in one direction and Lac Memphremagog in the other. There was once a fabulous restaurant on Magog's main street called Le Chat Noir. I ate there most Saturday nights all winter long for nearly a decade.

@@GrandAdventure I would have to say that you had a great life experience there! We had lunch one afternoon in Magog which was very good, but I do not remember the name of the restaurant. Several times on business, I traveled to French locations. I always enjoyed the visits and my interactions with the local inhabitants, some of the interactions being humorous when I became lost. I promised myself that I would learn French properly, and I enrolled in classes a couple of times, but alas to no avail. Memories, at least, we still have, as well as a few vocabulary words. 😄

@@JMOUC265 my wife is a Francophone from near Quebec City and spoke almost zero English when we met. She and her son spoke mostly French in the house while he was growing up. She mocks me today for my pitiful French after being married for nearly 30 years. 😄

@@GrandAdventure 😂 Thank you for sharing that. My wife had asked if you spoke French. She learned in college and could comprehend after some immersion into the culture. I could parrot some of what I heard, getting me deeper into a conversation than I was able to sustain or comprehend. 🤦🏼‍♂️

@@JMOUC265 I always say that I know just enough French to get in trouble, and not enough to get out of it. 😁

Thank you Tony! I skied Bromont many, many years ago. You live in a beautiful part of the Townships.

Thank you Bill!

Merci Dany!

Thank you! We are quite literally following precisely in your footsteps at this very moment.

Thank you Norm! We had a wonderful visit.

Thanks Shawn! Since my last time in Montreal they've replaced the old Pont Champlain with a massive new structure, yet the approach to the bridge on the South Shore remains only 2 lanes in each direction. Ridiculous! It was horribly backed up to enter the bridge, yet traffic flowed smoothly on the bridge itself. The new A-30 on the South Shore is also only two lanes in each direction. I just can't imagine how their urban planning is so poor.

Thank you Joanne!

Thank you Yann! Everything you say is very true, and I've been very fortunate to have been everywhere you mention in years past. 💖 Ile d'Orelans and Baie St-Paul! Next week's episode covers things stretching from Pont-Rouge through to Chute-Montmorency, but thereafter we head up the south shore of the St. Lawrence towards Gaspesie. I'm getting my mountain fix this week in the Chic-Chocs 😉.

@@michellewhite6692 Thank you Michelle! We are very happy to have you along.

🤣 You're much smarter than me. It's a very fine line between bravery and stupidity. Too funny, too, that of all the campground around Montreal we both ended up in the same one.

@@GrandAdventure we like being out of town too. The more space the better!! And we have a Triumph on the back of our motorhome for getting around.

@@leighmcqueeney9848 that bike would be perfect. As I think I mentioned in this episode, the older I get the less tolerant I've become of urban congestion. Heck, of congestion in general. I really am a rural guy at heart.

Thank you Diane! I never made it over the bridge to Levis this trip and the weather last weekend wasn't very cooperative for filming, but we did manage to film plenty for next week's Quebec City episode on the North Shore, from Pont-Rouge all the way to Chute-Montmorency.

Thanks Lee! We're having a blast. Mrs. GA is fairly adamant about not appearing on camera, so you'll hardly ever see her. Occasionally she'll get caught in the background of a shot, but that's typically about it. All is well here, thanks for asking.

Happy birthday Norm!!

It truly is, Jesi, and thanks for watching! Both Montreal and Quebec City are immaculate and eminently safe when compared to your typical American city. Even decades ago when I lived in Saratoga Springs (NY), I lived roughly equidistant between NYC and Montreal. Whenever we needed a city fix, we always headed north and hardly ever drove south.

No doubt about that! There's no way I was driving our (overall) 54-foot freight train on the Island of Montreal. So we stayed just off the island in the peaceful farm country on the South Shore, a quick 15-minute drive from the bridges into the city. Personally, we'd rather be set up out in the quiet countryside anyway. Likewise, as you'll see next week, for Quebec City we also set up camp in the farmlands nearby, left our 33-foot 5th wheel there and drove the truck alone into Quebec -- which was tricky enough by itself, particularly within the tight confines of the walled portion of the city. By staying on the South Shore we were able to follow A-30 and A-20 all the way to Quebec while staying outside of the urban areas of Montreal. And because we camped to the west of Quebec City, we were able to cross the river on the Pierre Laporte Bridge to avoid having to go through the city itself to get to our campsite. We could have made it easier still (with a few extra miles) by crossing the river at Sorel or Trois-Rivieres instead, and heading east on A-40. It was all strategically planned.

Great video. How exciting going to another country. Thanks Don

@@daviscrt thank you Don!

The traffic was never wonderful, but since 25 years ago it has gotten ridiculous.

🤣No one around here is going to mistake me for a native, Gord, especially once I open my mouth. 🤣 No Ottawa this year. Montreal was our westernmost stop in Canada this season. We keep heading east from here.

@@GrandAdventure Roger that, Marc. I gather the Mrs. is fluent in French. She certainly has the French Canadian female look to her. I gather she doesn't get much opportunity to speak French these days. Did you visit with her relatives yet? Are you going Newfy first or last? If you look on the map, Quebec province is a monster... goes all the way up where the bugs don't run. Gord

@@gorrdd the Mrs. is not only fluent in French, she barely spoke any English when we met. She's now fluent in both. She and her son spoke only French in the house while he was growing up. She also speaks with her relatives by phone quite regularly. Next week's episode is when most of the family visits took place, near Quebec City. Newfoundland isn't on the itinerary this year. Both the cost and logistics of getting the RV onto the island for this season. Right now we're in Gaspesie, and will be making a run into New Brunswick and PEI over the next few weeks.

@@GrandAdventure Thanks Marc. I'm getting a better picture of your tour this year. Apparently, you will be back in the states, traveling the Maine coastline, before the end of July. Will you be going into Nova Scotia and traveling the coastline there? Gord

@@gorrdd yes sir.

No Mary, not for several years now.