Day 66, Wednesday, July 30, St. Jerome, 113 km.

Today we went to visit the amazing Chateau Montebello and stayed for coffee/breakfast. Some of the Starbucks addicts complained about the quality of the coffee, but we all enjoyed the amazing log structure. We all decided we wanted to stay as far away from Montreal as possible in order to avoid the heaviest traffic.

The Quebec countryside was very pastoral and beautiful, and was dotted with charming villages. In Ontario we saw homes and restaurants for sale, but here we saw mainly homes for sale while paradoxically new monster homes (chateaus) are being built that seem to be designed for the wealthy, likely from Montreal.

We did get lost on our way to the campground and spent considerable time on cellphones sorting out how to get to our intended destination. We had to leave the flat lowlands and head into the hills for several kilometers before reaching the largest private RV campground I have ever seen, Camping Lac Fontaine at Saint Jerome. Submitted by Carol.