To those who know, it's really Gaspesie -- Not that I'm snobby or anything. A quiet day today. Yesterday we drove in the non-stop rain. Went through some large areas of excellent fall foliage made especially brilliant in contrast to the grey sky and dark pines. Sun would have been better. Today has also been rainy.
To take a break from driving, we're staying a second night here in Port Daniel. Instead of moving on, today we went to a couple of nearby small villages -- looked at a couple of art galleries, each one had some nice pieces -- Another we stopped at was closed, but even better had a giant brown and white Saint Bernard who stared at us. He was a cross with something so he looked like a BIG Saint Bernard on stilts -- nearly the high-light of the day. We stopped at a fish-market / restaurant, and had lunch. We each had the fish soup which was quite good -- The same soup was offered avec snails. I've eaten snails and I might have missed something, but really, what's the point? Aside from being SNAILS they taste like rubbery not-much-of-anything.
While going to the first village, we passed two touring cyclists. The one in front was pulling a sort of wagon (it looked like a street luge) that was suspended in the front -- like the bike wagons for children --
A dog in a doggy rain-coat was sitting on this wagon. With that arrangement, the dog could hop off and run or walk whenever it wanted, and hop back on whenever it wanted. Looked like a great arrangement for the dog. Tomorrow we plan to move on.
For those of you who know and love the pain management scale: re my knees: today at rest: 1 (down from 1.5 yesterday and 2 the day before) today walking: 5 (down from 6.4 yesterday, and 7.8 the day before) -- a signal improvement, and aren't you glad you asked? DA
I take credit for the overnight knee improvement as I did passive range of motion to the legs! Wow, what a health care provider, eh?
Yeah, this Gaspe peninsula is interesting. There are tiny communities about every 10-15 km and each one has at least one tall steepled church and many have two or more. Picture small white houses scattered along the coast line, surrounded by pine trees and a tall steeple sticking up over the countryside. The Catholics and Anglicans duked it our here for the religious prize of large congregations and did it the way we do today - advertising. Hard to miss those churches and all I can think about is who built them as they are quite old. We tried a few doors today hoping to see the inside but all were locked. Perhaps tomorrow we can sneak in between services. Bit of local color - we stumbled onto the local teen hangout (drug drop?) at the Visitor Information parking lot! Honda Civics and little Toyotas and a small Saturn or two took turns pulling next to each other - driver window to driver window. At one point three cars were within an arms reach of each other and I imagined the guys in the middle shuffling from one side of the car to the other. Who knows what they were doing, a car would leave and shortly another would show up carefully maneuvering so no one had to get out of the car. It was raining after all... But really - "meet you at the Visitor Information parking lot" - no one has a better idea than that?!?
Just remembered we did see a moose yesterday. It was splayed out in the back of a pickup truck having been dressed out after a successful hunt. It was huge! Worried me a bit that it might fall out of the pickup bed and that we would be hit by a dead moose. Guess it was heavy enough that it didn't happen. Those who may remember Dennis's den with the inflatable moosehead prominently displayed over the computer will be glad to hear that the same inflatable moosehead was prominently displayed in a cafe/gallery in Bonaventure. Are we trendy or what? Supposed to be sunny tomorrow and I certainly hope so. These last two days have been too like rainy Portland to be very enjoyable. dw
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