9^th day of riding and 11^th day of our trip.  We are one third of the way at mid-morning.  We started today with a beautiful European breakfast and headed out a bit late, so our mid-morning photo was a bit late too!  Most of our stops today were food stops: Cape Pélé Boulangerie; Shediac Lunch; & Vue des Dunes Dinner!  We’ve noticed that there are not many rest stops on the Maritime highways – but we saw one today, and stopped there!  Just before the stop we saw a sign with a pic-nic bench on it – we thought “yeah, benches, maybe other people, maybe a semi parked and maybe a pit toilet”.  When we got there, there was a bench – the sign was literally that there was a pic-nic bench – it was very nice, maybe a bit squeaky, but with a nice gazebo over top – a good place for a drink break.  Just before we arrived at Bouctouche (and met our host “Charlie” – Jean-Charle at Gîte Au Bord d'la Baie), we saw an interesting, old, rusting tractor with weeds growing through, in the middle of a pristine mowed lawn and neatly trimmed trees.  Across the highway, an elder person was standing looking out to the road and Y felt compelled to circle back and say hello, and introduce herself and the response was “my name is Emery”!  Emery then told us the story of the tractor as Y had taken a photo of it in passing.  Emery said the tractor had been pulled from the woods by the owner and placed prominently on the property to the dismay of neighbours.  The neighbours apparently have tried to purchase the tractor, so they can have it removed, but the owner neighbour won’t sell it!  Emery seemed to enjoy telling the story!  We ended today with a ½ game of Scrabble – B was tired and so Y pulled half the tiles from the bag – near the end of the game, we noticed that the game was on ½ the board – truly a ½ game of Scrabble! 

 

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