West St Modesto Labrador to St Barbe Newfoundland 54 miles
We have finished our coast to coast trip in Canada. Now we will be heading to Princeton New Jersey to participate in the Glidden Antique car tour. Today’s weather is a lot like yesterday. Very cloudy and windy. A very helpful local guy is coming to pick Rob up at 8 am to go shopping for the “special nuts”. The nuts are used to fasten the manifolds to the block. One of them stripped out along the way. Connie thinks she is coming down with a cold so she stayed in the room and took a nap. The fourth shop they tried had some. The shop repaired boats. Then Rob put the nuts on the car and tried to start it. That failed so once again we had to be pulled. But only a few feet this time. At least two guys gave him their phone numbers and said to call if we had problems. The folks in Labrador are incredibly helpful. Off we went to the ferry. It’s early but the weather looks threatening. The clouds hang low so picture taking would not be good. We went through a couple of sections of extremely dense fog. We could only see a few feet. The road still went up and down. Thank goodness no moose. We didn’t go to the famous lighthouse because the fog in the area was so dense. We did stop for gas and the car started without a pull. Yea! When we got to the ferry office it was closed. We waited there maybe 30 minutes. Rob asked for elevator access. We were the first in line. We ate beef stick and crackers for lunch. Rob’s chauffeur from this morning dropped by to make sure we got there. He was also going to purchase whiskey in Quebec because it was much cheaper. The ferry is actually in Quebec Provence but runs on Newfoundland time. While waiting we saw either an otter or a weasel dash across the lane to the ferry. Our turn to board the ferry came and the car started again. This time we are parked under cover. The ride across was much smoother. Hardly even a little bump. The car started again and we drove to the hotel. Our room has three steps up just inside the door. It also has a sink in the walk in closet. Across the street is a small convenience store. Amazing what they can pack in. We bought food for a few meals and returned to the room. Forgot to say we met a guy a few days ago that said he knew all about Idaho because he used to drive trucks of Idaho seed potatoes to Prince Edward Island.
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