{"id":3465,"date":"2014-09-11T15:27:20","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T15:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=3465"},"modified":"2017-07-28T16:44:49","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T16:44:49","slug":"tuesday-9th-september-2014-ive-left-centreville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=3465","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday 9th September 2014 – I’VE LEFT CENTREVILLE …"},"content":{"rendered":"

… and I’m now at my other spiritual home, the campsite at the country park at Mactaquac, near Fredericton.<\/p>\n

It wasn’t quite as cold this morning – a balmy 9\u00b0C would you believe – when I set off to the tyre depot to pay my respects to everyone there, and I ended up for an hour or so doing some photocopy-editing of a photo in an old historic book that someone has found. It shows all of the kids who went to a local primary school in 1935 – including Wallace McCain, he who had his chips just a few years ago – and someone has succeeded in identifying them all.<\/p>\n

Consequently we were doing a “cut and paste” on the photocopier so that all of the kids would be labelled with their identity.<\/p>\n

From there I went to the Bank at Florenceville to do some stuff down there and then set off for Woodstock. And by the time I got to Woodstock I was half a mill … "you said that last year – and the year before" – ed<\/em>. I did a little food shopping and at Canadian Tires I bought a small hydraulic bottle jack. There’s a good reason for this in that the jacks in these hire cars are sill jacks, and totally useless on uneven ground. And of course, I might be going to Labrador as you know.<\/p>\n

But then again, I might not. It’s snowing in Alberta already and there are people snowed in at their homes and so on – early September and WE complain about our weather! I want to see what the long-range forecast is before I commit myself.<\/p>\n

On the motorway down to Fredericton, I was right about something of which I had caught a glimpse earlier. You may recall, from all of our previous visits to Canada, that they have these road trains – an articulated tractor unit towing not one but two small trailers<\/a> – a lead trailer and a pup trailer (although when they have to reverse, the drivers often call the pup trailer something like “the mother of a pup.<\/p>\n

But I was convinced that I’d seen not one but two Day and Ross lorries, each towing two full-sized trailers on the motorway around Montreal and so I had the camera poised as I flashed along the Trans-Canada Highway. <\/p>\n

\"articulated<\/a>Sure enough, I was not wrong about that. The lorry here in this photo on the other carriageway is pulling two full-sized trailers. I’ve seen plenty of lead-and-pup combinations in my time, but never this.<\/p>\n

And doesn’t Strawberry Moose<\/a> take a superb photo, especially when we have a closing speed of what must be not far short of 250kph. Well done, Strawberry!
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At Fredericton, they hadn’t done my press pass info so I had to hang around for a while so I went up to Home Depot for a nosy around. There was nothing interesting there but I did meet Danny, the store assistant who comes from Croatia and with whom I’ve had several good chats before. And at Value Village, I bought a few more CDs and a book on Quebec and the Maritime Provinces.<\/p>\n

Finally, I picked up my press pass and my parking permit and now I’m here. I’ve had tea and I’m going to have an early night, I reckon.<\/p>\n

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