After an enjoyable 3 days with the Aliner group, we set off heading further east. Still south of Montreal we crossed the St Lawrence River to get to a new Hwy 30 route. This takes us northeast to join up with Transcanada 20 east of Montreal, bypassing the city traffic in Montreal. It's still slow going (better in later years with the new bridge to get to Hwy 30) but a much nicer drive than going through Montreal.
Driving east from Montreal to Quebec City is not our favourite drive. This trip had the added feature of stiff headwinds all the way through to New Brunswick. Towing the HiLo was so much harder than towing our Aliner that we really wondered if making the change was the right move.
In hindsight with more experience towing the HiLo, I should have just slowed down on the highway instead of trying to keep up with traffic, and stayed in 3rd gear instead of 4th (overdrive). So towing the HiLo became ok on later trips, but this one gave us a small taste of what it could be like towing a large 5th-wheel trailer in similar conditions, something we'd never want to do.
The scenery and drive do improve from Quebec City on east, but the headwinds persisted.
We arrived at the De La Republique (formerly Les Jardins) Provincial park near Edmundston New Brunswick about 6pm Eastern time, 7pm Atlantic time with the time shift at the NB border. A nice park to walk around in.
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