And then we drove home...
On Sunday we drove from our Cabot Trail campground to our usual De La Republique campground in western New Brunswick. A fairly long drive, but easy.
On Monday we drove home on main highways. An unusually easy trip home through Quebec and into Ontario until just east of Toronto this evening. At about the 35/115 exit on the 401, Jill (our GPS voice) began warning us of significant traffic delays ahead, and proposing that we get up to 407 asap.
After debating it a while, getting nagged by Jill for a decision, and noticing the rain was coming harder and visibility getting worse, which made most of the (heavy) traffic speed up of course, we decided to claw our way up to 407. We took 407 right from its eastern end through to the 410 exit. While still a miserable drive in places, there was way less traffic than on the 401, and we made it through ok. We were quite relieved to pull into our driveway about 10 PM though.
Along the way today we took a slightly different route past Montreal on the new #30 highway. At a spot not quite as far south as we had joined #30 before, there's a new bridge that takes traffic across to Hwy 20 and 40 etc. We had decided to try it out, luckily, as the traffic flow coming west took us right to the bridge. A $3 toll later, we got onto #20 at about km 29 (after missing 20 Ouest the first try, and circling back to it!).
This is a much easier and faster route than the #201 drive we had been taking. I've updated the June 15 blog entry that describes the #30 bypass route.
This was both the end of our very enjoyable Newfoundland trip, and the end of travels with our 2005 Tahoe and 2008 HiLo trailer. After many years of looking at travel vans, we sold the Tahoe and trailer, and ordered a 2014 Sprinter cargo van in September. It should arrive in December, and we'll finish the interior ourselves once the weather warms up next year.
I'm so disappointed! I only have one trip left to read! When are you going to post more?
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