Leaving New Brunswick

Tuesday Aug. 25
Tuesday morning woke up sunny and very beautiful. We were backed up on a beautiful beach in New Brunswick. It was a lazy morning and we were finally getting in the groove of not feeling like we had to get on the move right away. We ended up lazing around sitting back in the sun and just sort of taking our time to get going till well after lunch. We met a couple from Great Britain driving their own home made RV complete with steering on the wrong side of their vehicle. They were in their ninth month of a year long journey all around North America. We traded notes and it was interesting to see how he had built his RV up in a Sprinter van. It got me all excited about doing something the same some day. Typical me, I always think I can improve on something to suit myself. We left about noon and had planned to drive all around the Acadian shore line along our way around New Brunswick but fate intervened. We took a wrong turn in the road and ended up on the fast bypass highway that went strait across the province to PEI instead. In the end it was great to be able to drive at a 105 k and hour again without having to slow down every two minutes for a bend or a wobble or a little fishing village and we blew across the province in about five hours. We cut a day and a half off our trip along the shore line but we are good with that. Along the way we did take a side trip into the city of Shadiac which bills itself as the lobster capital of the Maritimes. I don’t know about that but it was a fun break for a while. Just before leaving the province we did end up taking a drive for about and hour along a very back road kind of stretch of remote shoreline in the hopes of maybe finding a remote pace to park for the night on the beach. We didn’t quite find what we were looking for however and by 7: 00 PM that night we were crossing the Confederation Bridge into Prince Edward Island. The bridge is amazing. It is 13 Kilometers long and reaches hundreds of feet up out of the water.Sarah eat your heart out. It is the largest bridge in North America that is built to withstand ocean ice and freeze up. That night we stayed right there at PEI end of the bridge in the parking lot of the information center.